Mum's The Word: Celebrities Who Rarely Give Interviews

Frank Ocean

A lot of people talk about Frank Ocean, but Mr. Ocean rarely pipes up himself. Why? He has said that it “seems healthier to be a little more reclusive” and avoid the spotlight when he can.

Lauryn Hill

Given the negative spin stories about the musician often take, we can understand why the legendary singer isn’t a fan of the mic when she’s not on stage.

Johnny Depp

The reason Johnny Depp rarely gives interviews and why you don’t often see him out and about is because he hates being famous.

Depp has said that being famous is “a little bit like living like a fugitive. Everything has to be some sort of strategy. To get you into the hotel, to get you out of the hotel, to get you into the restaurant, to get you out of the restaurant.”

So now he lives abroad and under the radar until it’s time for the movie cameras to start rolling.

Bradley Cooper

Bradley Cooper said that if he’s not promoting a movie, he avoids giving his two cents to the media. Why? Cooper has said that he’s afraid that letting fans in on who he really is might distract from his work in front of the camera:

“For me, maybe I’m old-fashioned, if I know so much about you and you’re playing a character in a movie then that’s a lot of work I’m gonna have to do to forget who you are so that I can believe the character and therefore enjoy the movie.”

Do you agree?

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen may be the most famous twins in the world, but they rarely give interviews and don’t have social media accounts. In a rare chat with Style.com in 2011, Ashley Olsen revealed that sharing personal info gives her “so much anxiety.” Mary-Kate agreed saying,”We’ve spent our whole lives trying to not let people have that accessibility, so it would go against everything we’ve done in our lives to not be in the public.”

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Karreuche Tran

Back in June, Chris Brown told Karreuche Tran to stop doing interviews about him after he spotted her Access Hollywood interview where she divulged about their troublesome past together. Although Tran took issue with his request on Instagram, she hasn’t spoken up about him since. Could this be a the last we hear of this roller-coaster relationship?

The Weeknd

We didn’t even know what The Weeknd looked like for a long time, so it’s not terribly surprising that his interviews are few and far between.

Jesse Eisenberg

The Social Network star said that he’s just as socially awkward as he appears in his films, and that makes interviews and public appearances painful. He avoids them when he can.

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Bill Murray

Bill Murray isn’t afraid to randomly photobomb fans. But don’t let the social media-friendly hijinks fool you, he rarely gives interviews.

Dave Chappelle

Sometimes it seems like the celebrities we’d love to hear from the most have the biggest aversion to the public eye. But we’re afraid to press Dave Chappelle too much to talk, he might leave the country again!

Adele

Insult Adele’s weight (*cough*Karl Lagerfeld*cough*) and she’ll speak up. But aside from putting catty celebrities in their place, we rarely hear from the singer. Her elusiveness has left us dying for more insight into the mind behind the music (and a hint on when the next album is coming out).

Beyoncé

Fans fell in love with Beyoncé’s fabulous Vogue cover but were surprised to see nothing from the singer inside the pages. But we shouldn’t have been. Beyoncé hasn’t done a direct interview with the media since sometime in 2013.

Kate Moss

Supermodel Kate Moss has given so few interviews over her legendary career that there was even a rumor at one time that she couldn’t talk at all. But Moss isn’t mute. When she finally spoke up about her famous penchant for silence, she revealed her real reason for refusing to talk to the press:

“I just didn’t like it. When I first started out I did press because I wasn’t really aware that they would write something really horrible but then they did, and I was like: “Oh no, I don’t want to go back there. I don’t really want to open up myself to that kind of criticism.”

D’Angelo

We can count the number of interviews D’Angelo has done since Brown Sugar on one hand. Maybe because he knows that all of our questions will be “Are we going to have to wait 14 years for the next album?”

George Clooney

George Clooney has said that he’s not afraid of doing interviews, but he is afraid of being on Twitter:

“God forbid, you take a sleeping pill and wake up and the sentences don’t even make sense. What a horrible idea… I could easily say something stupid, and I also don’t think you need to be that available.”

Anyone else dying to hear what Clooney’s afraid that he might say?