Celebrities cope with fame by treating their public persona as a costume
Shep Gordon · #65 Shep Gordon: Trust, Compassion, and Shooting Friends from Cannons · Sep 3, 2019 · at 29:32
Legendary talent manager Shep Gordon discusses how high-profile clients like Alice Cooper and Michael Douglas psychologically handle public scrutiny and loss of privacy.
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“The advice that I give to everyone I've worked with and the ones that are able to do it Or able to later on in life do it, is to always think about the person that's out there as a character. Put it to sleep, like when you go out to dinner and you're Michael Douglas, you gotta be Michael Douglas. The second you get back to the house, zip up the costume, put it in a closet, and go be who you are. Just thinking about it in those terms, Makes it so much easier, because when that guy gets a bad review, he's in the closet.”
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