Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - OMG, Another Interview Scandal !!

00:00:00.000 Now, Parker Posey is in the headlines again for another really uncomfortable interview.

00:00:11.960 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Sjärstie Flore, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,

00:00:16.720 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.

00:00:21.660 Okay, this is really, really awkward and kind of a little bit of a deja vu for me.

00:00:29.160 You might remember my not so comfortable conversation with Parker Posey when she was

00:00:35.800 sitting next to Blake Lively in my interview that went viral in 2024. Now Parker Posey is

00:00:45.260 in the headlines again for another really uncomfortable interview. Before I let you

00:00:51.140 And the cringe moments just keeps happening in the interview that she did yesterday.

00:01:05.100 And after watching this, I feel like Parker Posey has more in common with Blake Lively

00:01:09.840 than what I originally thought.

00:01:12.580 It's Parker Posey's career going down the toilet as well. 1.00

00:01:16.520 Now she's hosting a reality show on Hulu. 0.76

00:01:20.560 Let's get into it.

00:01:22.260 Okay, before I get into all these epic level cringe moments that happened on the morning

00:01:27.000 show, just a reminder what happened in my interview with Parker Posey when she was paired

00:01:33.180 next to Blake Lively. 0.85

00:01:35.060 As you know, I started the interview off with congratulating Blake on her little bump.

00:01:39.840 And then Blake congratulated me on my little bump that wasn't there.

00:01:44.680 And then they had this little fun banter between the two of them before he started getting

00:01:49.340 even more awkward first of all congrats on your little bump congrats on your little bump

00:01:55.420 what about my bump 0.86

00:01:57.440 you've got two nice ones and these they are kind of bumps aren't they no not bumps the lovely lady

00:02:07.320 lumps check it out thank you thank you my interview was done in 2016 and they were promoting

00:02:12.520 Café Society, a movie by Woody Allen. I remember after posting the interview that a lot of people

00:02:19.660 were discussing whether Parker Posey was as bad as Blake Lively, if she was trying to save the

00:02:28.140 situation, if she was being manipulated by Blake Lively, or some people even said that she was

00:02:35.740 worse than Blake Lively. I don't have an answer to that, but in the moment when I was sitting there,

00:02:41.740 I felt that both the women were participating just as much in making me feel uncomfortable.

00:02:48.300 When you look at Parker Post's body language, it's so clear to me that she is turning away from me

00:02:53.420 and she's just having a conversation with Blake.

00:02:56.720 And as you know, that's how that entire interview went.

00:02:59.740 They were just basically ignoring me for the entire time.

00:03:03.320 At the time this interview happened, Blake was in her early 30s and Parker was in her mid-40s.

00:03:09.100 So I don't really think that Parker was manipulated in any way by Blake Lively to behave the way that she did.

00:03:17.560 And what gave it away for me was something I didn't notice while I was sitting there,

00:03:22.840 but I noticed after I re-watched the interview when I was able to do that,

00:03:27.520 because I was pretty traumatized by that whole experience, as you know.

00:03:30.800 When I noticed what Parker Posey did at the end of that interview,

00:03:34.560 I'm very glad that I did not see that while I was in that room.

00:03:39.100 Because that would have probably made me feel even worse.

00:03:42.840 Yeah, her eye roll at the end of my interview just says everything.

00:03:48.980 Anyways, that's my story with Parker Posey.

00:03:51.580 And I remember at the time when my interview went viral, a lot of journalists kept asking me,

00:03:57.520 of course, if Blake Lively had reached out to me.

00:03:59.500 But they also asked me if Parker Posey had reached out to me to comment on what happened

00:04:03.980 or to maybe say that she was sorry that she was behaving this way.

00:04:07.500 but she never did. I think that it would have been a smart thing for Park Posey to do at the time

00:04:14.600 to actually address what happened here because things got a little bit uncomfortable after that

00:04:21.180 because she was out promoting White Lotus, the TV show that she was a part of and that happened in

00:04:27.980 the middle of the controversy surrounding It Ends With Us and the lawsuit. So she was out promoting

00:04:34.000 the TV show in January of last year and I was invited to a press conference where she was

00:04:40.520 appearing. I did a little video about that, my expectations. I wasn't going to ask her any

00:04:45.780 questions. I just wanted to sit there and see if she reacted and actually give her an opportunity

00:04:50.800 to come over and say something to me. But she didn't. She completely ignored me being there.

00:04:57.160 It was a room full of journalists so she could always say that she didn't see me but I'm sure

00:05:03.340 her publicist told her that I was going to be there but anyways after that they had a premiere

00:05:10.340 for the White Lotus and she was on the red carpet and a friend of mine told me he was covering the

00:05:16.460 red carpet and he said that everyone was told not to bring up that interview meaning the little

00:05:23.820 bump interview and he also said that Parker Posey was worried if that interview got more attention

00:05:29.760 again that she would lose her chances of winning an Emmy for her role in The White Lotus. She did

00:05:37.020 not win that Emmy by the way but she was nominated. Anyways yesterday Parker Posey was a guest on the

00:05:45.180 Today Show and was interviewed by Craig Melvin and it got really really weird. The awkwardness

00:05:53.680 started already when he was asking her about her choice in going from an award-winning actress to

00:06:00.140 hosting a reality show on hulu but you i mean you know you're you're an award-winning actress

00:06:06.480 like this hosting thing i'm a classy lady look at me look at this dress you are that by the way

00:06:11.620 that is a beautiful dress oscar de la renta isn't it pretty yes talk about getting the attention

00:06:19.740 away from the conversation hey well look at my dress isn't that beautiful funny enough she was

00:06:25.840 actually wearing florals and also funny enough she wanted to talk about her clothes something

00:06:31.420 that both her and Blake Lively were offended by in my interview because I asked them about wardrobe

00:06:38.120 and Blake Lively insinuated that it was sexist of me to actually ask a woman how she feels about

00:06:45.340 wearing specific clothing if i would ever ask a man that question yes did you guys love wearing

00:06:53.420 those kind of clothes that you yeah yeah and you know working in digital wants to talk about the

00:06:58.120 clothes but i wonder if they would ask the men about the clothes i would i love jesse's

00:07:03.620 that's what i'm saying his wardrobe was beautiful cory's wardrobe was of course those high-waisted

00:07:08.540 pants he's so great i wish men more high-waisted pants i know still or the father with his with

00:07:13.400 his tank top. Oh, it's so good. Did you catch the tablecloth on the line? Yeah, you remember that

00:07:19.240 conversation. Anyways, here Parker Posey wants to bring it back to her dress. Talking about Blake 1.00

00:07:25.080 Mively, I also noticed that Parker Posey is pushing alcohol and drinks on her Instagram. 1.00

00:07:32.180 She's being sponsored by some Long Island iced tea brand. Oh, hello. I'm Parker Posey. Can I let 1.00

00:07:39.400 You know my summer hosting secret?

00:07:41.680 It's a long island.

00:07:43.180 Yes, so I guess the two of them have that in common as well.

00:07:46.480 Anyways, this is where it becomes really, really awkward.

00:07:49.520 So now Craig has asked her about White Lotus already.

00:07:53.700 And this moment after he had interviewed her last time that went viral,

00:07:58.400 where they talked about her accent in White Lotus,

00:08:02.280 which was this southern accent that was completely over the top.

00:08:06.880 And they laugh about it.

00:08:08.520 and Parker Posey was like oh yeah that went viral they even made t-shirts about it

00:08:14.100 so I guess she was a bit more excited about that going viral than our conversation anyways then

00:08:23.500 Craig gets to her next project which he believes is her next project which is a horror movie we

00:08:33.000 Yes, she really misunderstood that word and thought that he called her that word.

00:08:58.000 I don't want to say that word too many times in this video because then YouTube doesn't

00:09:02.180 like it. But how can you twist that sentence around from him saying, before we let you go out

00:09:07.940 of here, we got to talk horror. And then she's like, oh, you just called me that word. No, he

00:09:14.640 didn't. Why would you say that to him? I mean, if I were Craig in that situation, a man being accused

00:09:21.860 of calling a woman that word, that doesn't feel great. And maybe this is her sense of humor that

00:09:28.240 she was just trying to be funny but i just found it to be really inappropriate and weird and she

00:09:34.540 just put him in a really really awkward spot there and then it gets even worse now you're doing a new

00:09:41.880 horror film okay tell us about your new horror film i'm not doing it so on october 13 about two

00:09:50.420 weeks ago variety announced in an article that parker posey was going to star in a movie called

00:09:57.360 Sleepover and that's a horror movie and that is why Craig wanted to start talking about horror

00:10:04.480 and this is where it gets really weird. I'm not doing it. It says right here that you're

00:10:11.380 doing Sleepover. No I'm not doing it anymore. Is that true? It is true now I'm sweating can I use

00:10:20.520 Yes. I mean, does it get more cringe than that? And you can't blame Craig for this because this

00:10:41.560 was announced two weeks ago. Why would anyone think that something was canceled already? And

00:10:48.280 the most awkward part about this is how Parker Posey can't really respond to the reason why she's

00:10:55.260 not in that movie anymore. She's just saying that something came up and then she starts sweating

00:11:03.320 about it. So it's obviously something that makes her really nervous. And if there was kind of a

00:11:09.500 simple reason for that not happening, which would obviously be something like, oh, there was a

00:11:14.300 conflicting schedule there or it's not happening right now I didn't get the finances or whatever

00:11:20.640 but she can't comment on the reason why she's not doing the movie anymore. That makes me believe

00:11:27.400 that there's something really uncomfortable going on there and that's also why she starts sweating 0.95

00:11:32.640 about it. Then to change this topic which is really uncomfortable for both of them actually

00:11:38.440 at this point Parker Posey is trying to get the attention back on the host and she says this

00:11:44.740 yeah apparently he was called the sexiest morning tv host by People magazine this year I didn't know

00:12:01.060 that but Parker obviously knew that so she said that you are hotter than a cup of coffee you're

00:12:07.340 the sexiest man alive interesting that she's using both sexy and hot here which you know if you watch

00:12:13.680 the blake lively lawsuit that those two words are the biggest no-nos you can never call someone sexy

00:12:20.180 or hot without it being sh anyway at the end of this interview craig again wants to make sure

00:12:25.500 that he got everything right so he's asking again are you really not doing that movie

00:12:29.880 and yeah um are you really not doing it did i screw that up yeah okay all right well now it's

00:12:36.920 really awkward question save us please I can't yeah I think we can definitely say that Parker

00:12:42.480 Posey is a bit socially awkward and maybe we can give her some benefit of the doubt for that

00:12:47.460 but it's interesting because I found another interview that she did about eight years ago

00:12:52.860 when she thought that her career was over so she wrote a book instead and this is from the

00:12:59.080 Guardian and it says a little bit about how defensive she is so this was in 2018 it says

00:13:05.380 Parker Posey I didn't think I would work again so I wrote a book and they continue being an art

00:13:11.200 house darling became something of a curse for Parker Posey as Hollywood consigned her to little

00:13:17.460 parts in big films now her new comic memoir charts her struggle to survive in an ageist sexist

00:13:24.680 industry in this interview she talks about the fear of not working and that she didn't get

00:13:30.800 offered many parts because she was this indie queen and people didn't really see her in commercial

00:13:37.060 movies. And then the journalist brings out her decision to work with Woody Allen twice. She was

00:13:43.540 in Irrational Man in 2015 and in Cafe Society, the one I did the junket for in 2016. And the

00:13:51.440 journalist writes, I ask about Woody Allen, the actors who've spoken out against working with him

00:13:56.400 and his status as an industry pariah and our gentle wrestle threatens to become more of a

00:14:02.640 duel so he is explaining earlier in this article that they're kind of wrestling a little bit

00:14:07.740 and she responds here i'm an actor she says upset by the shift in conversation i don't feel like i

00:14:14.360 should be asked these questions and to be political in a way that the media expects

00:14:19.580 so she's saying that this question was a political question it's not a political question it's a

00:14:25.980 personal question about your choices. But anyway, she mentions the New York Post article, her fear

00:14:32.540 of call-out culture, and what she sees as the pervading meanness that surrounds us. And she

00:14:39.940 says, I've written something that isn't mean, and I try my best to protect myself, and now I don't

00:14:45.900 feel protected because you asked this question. And it feels like a manipulation. She says,

00:14:51.620 facing me on a now uncomfortably closed couch. And then she continued, I just feel a little

00:14:58.240 diminished and I've had enough of that, she continues. I wrote a book because I had to do

00:15:02.960 something else. I didn't think I would work again. Yes, I find that very interesting how she's very

00:15:08.800 uncomfortable when she has to talk about her own choices. She obviously knew about the allegations

00:15:14.460 against Woody Allen and she should have prepared an answer for that. I remember when I did my

00:15:21.260 interview with them as well she jumped on me instantly and said oh did you watch the movie

00:15:26.960 what do you think about Woody Allen are you like the movie are you Woody Allen fan I love most of

00:15:32.380 his movies so she just threw the ball back at my court like what do you think about Woody Allen I

00:15:37.660 didn't know how to respond to that so I just said I like most of his movies I remember it was really

00:15:42.780 weird but now I understand that she was very uncomfortable talking about being in a Woody

00:15:48.940 Allen movie, then I don't understand why you actually agree to do a movie like that when you

00:15:54.880 know there's so much controversy surrounding the director and he's been accused of very serious

00:16:00.620 things. Yeah, it's funny how she feels like it's manipulation when a journalist is asking her why

00:16:06.900 she chose to work with Woody Allen. Yeah, she obviously doesn't really like reporters. I mean,

00:16:12.400 I've talked about these things before. If you are a host of a morning show or today's show like this,

00:16:18.080 The chances are that most people are on their best behavior.

00:16:21.500 When they meet an international journalist and they think no one's really watching,

00:16:25.620 then you see more of their true colors.

00:16:28.900 Anyways, let me know what you guys think.

00:16:30.920 Are you fans of Parker Posey?

00:16:32.520 Were you a fan of her before?

00:16:34.540 And did you actually know who she was when I did my interview?

00:16:37.860 A lot of people didn't.

00:16:39.480 And how awkward do you think this interview was?

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Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - October 28, 2026

OMG, Another Interview Scandal !!

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