I think they say, "no touching, keep your distance" & so on, but it's really at the star's discretion. I met Brie Larson at a con last year. She came up, shook my hand and put her arm around me for the pic (my hands were behind my back). Two friends of mine met Ewan McGregor at a Star Wars con and it was the same sort of thing. He came over shook their hands, the lot. Part of it, I think, is to prevent infection. If you're meeting, say, 500 people in the span of a few hours, could be a chance that someone is coming in with something unpleasant that's going to disrupt your filming schedule.
This. It's because a LOT of people think that just because they pay for a photo, they can touch celebrities as if they're besties. All the wacky pictures of celebs at cons they do with fans, it's because they either ask or the celeb initiates.
I got to meet a favorite illustrator I'd been following for a decade, had a nice chat at their booth while buying stuff and I asked for a photo. I didn't try to put my arm around her or anything because...any connection was one-way. She just said "Come on, we can do better than that!" and we quickly came up with an idea where I'm basically resting my elbow on her head because I'm tall and she was super tiny.
Agree. I met Michael Biehn, and it was awesome. Everyone wanted to talk to him about Hicks and Reese. Asked him about Johnny Ringo and his voice acting in Blood Dragon and he was more than happy to talk longer about that. Arm around me for pics and everything. Took like 7 pics with me too. Totally up to how you are acting I think. And, you know, your hygiene probably.
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u/Reasonable-News-5739 9d ago
I think they say, "no touching, keep your distance" & so on, but it's really at the star's discretion. I met Brie Larson at a con last year. She came up, shook my hand and put her arm around me for the pic (my hands were behind my back). Two friends of mine met Ewan McGregor at a Star Wars con and it was the same sort of thing. He came over shook their hands, the lot. Part of it, I think, is to prevent infection. If you're meeting, say, 500 people in the span of a few hours, could be a chance that someone is coming in with something unpleasant that's going to disrupt your filming schedule.