Celebrity Hair Stylist Recalls Bad Experiences with Anne Hathaway And Blake Lively

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@whatitwaslikepodcast In Part 2 of our interview with Hollywood hairstylist Emanuel Miller, he opens up about some of the challenging experiences he's had working with celebrities. While many were lovely, others were cold and rude. The controversy surrounding Blake Lively doesn’t surprise him, as it mirrors behavior he’s witnessed in others,

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[spellmanian]

Maybe I'm unfriendly but I don't think not making small talk with someone you're working with is impolite.

[josiefier]

I find nothing wrong with wanting to just go to work, do your job, and go home. But then that's me. Plus, we don't know when this was, Anne could have had a lot going on at the time

[ahkna]

I specifically go to hairdressers that do not want to make small talk.

[spellmanian]

Same! One time I had a massage therapist who kept talking to me and it was stressing me TF out

[ahkna]

There's only so many times you can smile awkwardly and go "haha, yeah."

[solookup]

My RMT lady is nice... she knows when I stop responding she will stop engaging. We usually make it to like 15 minutes of "catching up" before I'm done.

[spellmanian]

Don't let her go!! Some MTs trap you in conversation and I'm like why do you think I'm so tense 😭

[spiffle]

Chatty hairdressers was why I started to cut my own hair.

[somacomatose]

are you me because SAME. "lucked" out because wavy/curly hair hides a lot of imperfections lol but yeah haven't been to a salon in like 3 years since trimming my own hair every few months 😬

[lone_concertina]

I pretend like I still haven't learned much of the language in my new country because I love my hair stylist but she just wants to talk constantly. I don't even care that at this point she's probably like "this fucking American hasn't learned any Portuguese after 3.5 years??"

[hardcoreninja11]

I've been going to my current hairdresser long enough now that she's very familiar with how I am and how sometimes I just like to relax and not talk at all, so she doesn't mistake it for me being rude. She gets me. I'll make a little bit of small talk when I first get there but once she starts washing my hair and massaging my scalp I tend to shut up and turn my brain off, to just enjoy myself. She's so sweet and I adore my girl so much though.

[frelling_tralk]

I don’t see what was so bad about their interaction either from how he’s describing it, first he says that Anne treated him as a servant which isn’t great obviously, but then his only specific complaint is that she never wanted to talk about his daughter and chat with him?

He’d probably dislike doing my hair as well in that case lol, because I absolutely hate having to make small talk when I’m having my hair styled. People have different personalities, not everyone is going to be bubbly and want to chat all the time, you’d think he would understand that

[ladgertha]

same. I'm already anxious here, have 100 thoughts going on inside my head I don't want to talk to you!

[lolzerz]

small talk makes me want to die, i genuinely just dont care to shoot the shit with anyone im not close with. yet somehow i always get cornered by the chatty cathys/chads at work.

[__onthebound]

I have to talk on the phone all day every doing customer service for a conglomerate. I am so bad at small talk and it makes me panic so much they've upped my anxiety meds

[anna_drenxavier]

I am too nervous and awkward to make small talk, so stylists just give up trying lol. I'm pretty sure my regular stylist doesn't care/is also more introverted. Me and my eyebrow lady now talk about our aging fathers and shitty brothers, but that took a long time.