There are many things that sound great about being a celebrity. Non-economy flight tickets to exciting countries, free clothes, and having a platform to preach what you believe all sound quite positive, at least on paper. What doesn’t sound so fun is anything involving a red carpet appearance, judging by the latest brilliantly unfiltered comments from Hari Nef and Rowan Blanchard. It all started with Blanchard revealing that she finds the red carpet an “uncomfortable scary place” in a rare Instagram post of herself posing at an event. “Ok I don’t usually post carpet photos bc the carpet is a really uncomfortable scary place 4 me but here is a photo that I don’t look stressed in that captures the beautiful work,” she wrote before tagging her glam squad and praising the work of the organization she was supporting.
Nef then tweeted a desire to star with Blanchard on what would definitely be the greatest E! Fashion Police episode ever, spurring a self-deprecatingly hilarious rundown of what exactly is so bad about getting to wear a pretty dress and pose for photos: namely, pretty much everything.
i want to go on @e_fashionpolice with @rowblanchard for a special segment on why we hate doing red carpet
— hari nef (@harinef) May 9, 2016
@harinef omg yes PLS !!! It’s so soul sucking
— Rowan Blanchard (@rowblanchard) May 9, 2016
@rowblanchard it’s like…i love clothes obviously and i have always dressed my personality rather than my body. but with red carpet…
— hari nef (@harinef) May 9, 2016
@rowblanchard …it’s this situation where the things you normally feel comfortable or cool in look crazy under those awful lights…
— hari nef (@harinef) May 9, 2016
@rowblanchard …but it’s the one time you have a huge platform to communicate with your clothes! and the ways those photos circulate…bye
— hari nef (@harinef) May 9, 2016
@harinef exactly..like if my clothes matched how I feel it would be these… but lights/angles etc would b all wrong pic.twitter.com/C6olFc24W9
— Rowan Blanchard (@rowblanchard) May 9, 2016
@rowblanchard tfw i wore margiela runway to the sag awards and looked like a fashion tater #fashiontater
— hari nef (@harinef) May 9, 2016
@rowblanchard 1. that 2. when someone hotter/cooler goes b4 you and they get a bunch of flashes and you roll up &…pr is spelling your name
— hari nef (@harinef) May 9, 2016
@harinef once I was at the teen choice awards like 3 years ago bc I had just done a pilot w fox- And…. The kardashians went on before me.
— Rowan Blanchard (@rowblanchard) May 9, 2016
@rowblanchard [logs off]
— hari nef (@harinef) May 9, 2016
The much-maligned Fashion Police could certainly use a revamp. Why not just hand Blanchard and Nef the reins of the entire show? They could also rename it Fashion Taters. For the record, though, that Margiela dressed looked pretty damn magical from this perspective.
Credits
Text Hannah Ongley
Photography Michael Bailey Gates