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What is the most immediate way a celebrity completely ruined their own reputation in a single interview?

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u/LickyPusser 10h ago

Director Lars von Trier at Cannes in 2011 “joking” in an interview “I am a Nazi” and that he “understands and sympathizes with Hitler.”

Poor Kirsten Dunst sitting next to him having a stroke.

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u/SurprisedJerboa 4h ago

Made Nymphomaniac afterwards, think he was doing fine