Interviewers exchanging lighthearted flirtations with various stars at film press junkets gets a lot of views just because most press is highly-controlled and completely inane ("why would this star make up such a crazy lie doing press for his movie?" can easily be answered the fact that he's done 20 such interviews today and he's bored out of his skull) but can we PLEASE get back to some semblance of professionalism for press.
The Buzzfeed-pioneered "are you craving pizza?" interview style aged badly (why are you asking a classically trained thespian what his favorite hotdog condiment is when you could be asking something relevant?) and while I love Hot Ones as a standalone show I don't think that it's success is necessarily something I'd like other interviewers emulating.
It's marketing, not journalism, existing as a vehicle for telling viewership "go see my new movie" at the end of the talk, so I can't begrudge people the desire to see boring promotional pieces be more whimsical, nor do I think interviewers need to cosplay as hard hitting journalists while tossing a slate of softball questions to the cast of Shrek 5, but if I see another Oscar-winning actor doing coloring books instead of taking any sort of meaningful question about their art I think I'm gonna become the joker
