9 Celebrity Interviews That Became Truly Iconic

Celebrity interviews are usually pretty predictable. A star answers a few questions, promotes their latest project, shares a funny behind-the-scenes story, and moves on. Every now and then, however, they’ll throw such a curveball that people will be talking about it for the next 10 years.

Keke Palmer “Sorry to This Man”

Keke Palmer gave the internet one of its most useful reaction memes during a 2019 Vanity Fair lie detector test. While promoting Hustlers, Palmer was shown a photograph of former VP Dick Cheney and asked whether her character on True Jackson had been a better vice president.

There was just one problem: she genuinely had no idea who Cheney was. Her completely sincere confusion quickly spread across social media. Rumor has it, she still has no clue who that random man was.

Jack Nicholson Surprises Jennifer Lawrence

After winning an Oscar for Best Actress in 2013, Jennifer Lawrence found herself in a situation even she wasn’t prepared for: during a backstage interview with George Stephanopoulos, Hollywood legend Jack Nicholson suddenly appeared behind her and gave her big kudos on camera!

Lawrence looked shocked for a second, but not the bad kind of shocked. Then Nicholson mentioned that she reminded him of an old girlfriend, to which she replied in her own jokey way before covering her face in panic.

Elijah Wood Is Asked About Wigs

This bizarre interview originally appeared as an Easter egg on the DVD of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Elijah Wood believed he was speaking with German interviewer Hans Jensen, but the interviewer was actually his co-star Dominic Monaghan using a fake accent.

The questions became progressively more ridiculous, eventually leading to the topic of wigs. Wood reassured his interviewer that he had never used any wigs, but that question broke him, and the conversation turned into a joke.