17 Celebrity Encounters That Turned Out To Be Wholesome
Chris Hemsworth
André René Roussimoff (better known as André the Giant)
Tom Hanks
Tom Cruise
André 3000
Ariana Grande
Weird Al
Michael Bublé
"I played hockey with Michael Bublé. I expected a stuck-up rich dude who thought he was better than everyone. He wasn't. He was so genuinely kind. And it's not like he was putting on a show. It was just a bunch of people who mostly knew each other getting together to play hockey, so he had no reason to be anyone but himself.I ended up on his team for the game. We chatted on the bench after each shift. Super cool dude. Down to earth. We talked about his Christmas special, and that year [Justin] Bieber was on, and I asked about Bieber's low-riding pants, and Michael just said, 'Young kid, what can ya do?' But generally had good things to say about Bieber.The most memorable moment was when my buddy and him talked. My buddy is really good at hockey. Michael said, 'Here's the deal, I'll give you all the women you want and you give me your hockey skills.' Michael sucks at hockey but is super cool." —The original poster of this thread
Adam Sandler
Giancarlo Esposito
"Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring from Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul) used to live in a town a little ways away from my hometown growing up. The people who owned his house before he did used to host a Bernese Mountain Dog meetup/parade thing, which my family would go to because we had a Berner at the time (this was circa 2003-2005). When Giancarlo bought the house, he kept it up and even had the event catered, and would hang out with all these random people and their dogs. We knew he was an actor who was on a bunch of TV shows, but he wasn't very well known at the time (again, about five years before Breaking Bad); we just knew him as a really nice dude who was way more okay with metric tons of dog shit on his lawn than most human beings. Years later, my mom and I binge-watched Breaking Bad, and she flipped out when she realized that Gus Fuckin' Fring had given her children cupcakes and complimented her dog." —anonymous
Bryan Cranston
Sandra Bullock
Gary Sinise
"I escorted Gary Sinise around for a day. He was the nicest guy. He stopped and talked to every soldier and would actively listen to them and get to know their stories. We chatted for a while in the vehicles as we were transported from training site to training site. I first saw him getting off his private plane, and he was carrying his own bags, which shocked me. You could run into him and never know he was a celebrity.There isn't another celebrity I respect more than Gary." —anonymous
Prince
Jack Black
Kelly Clarkson
Lastly, Matthew McConaughey
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