I wonder if the solution is blacklisting the question or I guess statement (?) from both sides so it doesn’t bleed out onto Spiderman press, Dune press, and Awards season. I noticed there wasn’t any kissing questions during The Drama press other than that one time in Paris when they were asked if Tom & Suki were okay/jealous with Z and Rob acting a relationship out onscreen, which THANK GOD btw because I felt so bad for Z having to deal with that bs back to back with Dune Part 2, Challengers, and the worst instance of all…. someone had an opportunity to ask Z a cool question about her performance & choices of Tashi (Lord knows I have a million) and they had the audacity to ask her who was the better kisser between Josh and Mike.☹️
I get that the journalists are trying to get a viral moment but when they constantly do that, people might conflate that with her getting the role because of him (not that the asking if he was okay with it really helped, that was weird on Nolan’s part) when they’re both good actors with their own respect and merit from all over the industry + the general audience.
Sorry for posting a day later, I got a busy weekend. But apparently that story was included in press notes. That doesn't mean they all had to ask her about it... This is not the most interesting thing about her being in this movie. Ask her about that school paper she did on Interstellar, about her handing an Oscar to Hoyte and now getting to watch him work, about the fact that Nolan allowed her to sit on set and watch him on her day off, ask her about the crazy year she's having, about her jumping between the sets last year... Or deeper and more nuanced questions about her craft...
There were few good questions but I've heard bits about Tom being the bearer of the news, about perfect score and about Nolan finding humanity in Athena too many times to count atp.
To be fair to those journalists they didn't know what others were asking, but don't you want to ask original questions?