Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Hobbit For Hillary
Today I met Sean Astin - that's Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings movies, for those of you who don't know - on campus. I was walking down the hall and saw a flyer saying that he was going to be at NC State to promote the Hillary Clinton campaign.
How was this not advertised? About forty to fifty people showed up to hear him speak, and I think a lot more would have come out if they had actually known it was happening. It was by pure chance that I happened to see the flyer.
After his presentation, I stuck around and did a short interview while walking him to his car. Hopefully that interview will be up on MovieChatter within the next week, despite the fact that most of it is about politics (though I did ask him about The Hobbit movie at the end!).
Anyways... yeah. That was a pretty cool, unexpected twist to my day. Sean Astin is probably the nicest, most down-to-Earth celebrity I have ever met, with the possible exception of Bruce Campbell. He's the kind of guy I would love to just have lunch and hang out with. And he actually said a lot about what Clinton actually stands for and has promised to do if she's President, which is more than a lot of people on the campaign trail do.
He even managed to get me to start considering voting for Hillary. Who woulda thunkit?
How was this not advertised? About forty to fifty people showed up to hear him speak, and I think a lot more would have come out if they had actually known it was happening. It was by pure chance that I happened to see the flyer.
After his presentation, I stuck around and did a short interview while walking him to his car. Hopefully that interview will be up on MovieChatter within the next week, despite the fact that most of it is about politics (though I did ask him about The Hobbit movie at the end!).
Anyways... yeah. That was a pretty cool, unexpected twist to my day. Sean Astin is probably the nicest, most down-to-Earth celebrity I have ever met, with the possible exception of Bruce Campbell. He's the kind of guy I would love to just have lunch and hang out with. And he actually said a lot about what Clinton actually stands for and has promised to do if she's President, which is more than a lot of people on the campaign trail do.
He even managed to get me to start considering voting for Hillary. Who woulda thunkit?
# posted by Andrew Johnson : 4/22/2008 10:48:00 PM 
