While we’re certainly living in the age of the selfie, not everyone is down to snap a pic.
This largely includes celebrities who are asked alll of the time by fans to take a photo. Sometimes, these encounters are even terrifying.
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After a while, enough is enough.
Here are 10+ celebrities who won’t always take pictures with fans.
1. Chris Pratt
The Marvel actor has gotten used to disappointing fans who want photos.
His reasoning is that it ruins the present moment. “It’s about stealing the moment to brag about later,” he told Cigar Aficionado .
2. Amy Schumer
You can blame some “dude in Greenville” for making the comedian stop taking photos with fans.
According to her Instagram, the man wouldn’t stop taking pictures. When she asked him to stop, he said, “No. It’s America and we paid for you.”
3. Jennifer Lawerence
After noticing an impact on her mental health, the Hunger Games actress enforced a strict no-photos policy.
“Sometimes I’m nice, sometimes I’m in a bad mood,” she told CNN , adding that being able to say no to fans has helped her anxiety.
4. Zoe Saldana
Having three young children has changed the actress’s perspective on photos.
“I feel really uncomfortable,” she told People . “They’re still at that tender age where they don’t understand why a stranger is coming over and touching their mother.”
5. Prince Harry
The royal has two solid reasons to avoid photos with fans: one, it’s breaking royal protocol , and two, he hates it.
He told a teenager that “selfies are bad” when she asked for a picture in Australia.
6. Emma Watson
The Beauty and the Beast actress doesn’t see the beauty in photos with fans. She just sees the difference between having a life or not.
“If someone takes a photograph of me and posts it, within two seconds they’ve created a marker of exactly where I am within 10 meters,” she told Vanity Fair .
That’s not to say that she doesn’t want to engage with her fans, though.
She shared that she would rather have a conversation with them.
“I’ll say, ‘I will sit here and answer every single Harry Potter fandom question you have, but I just can’t do a picture,'” she continued.
7. Justin Bieber
After years of feeling like a “zoo animal” to fans, the singer had enough.
“I’m done taking pictures,” he shared on Instagram. “It has gotten to the point that people won’t even say hi to me or recognize me as a human.”
8. Emma Thompson
The actress doesn’t mince words when it comes to her distaste towards selfies.
She once called it ” taking narcissism to the extreme ” and that she “wouldn’t dream of taking a selfie — with anyone.” That clears that up!
She did, however, once defend a waiter who got suspended for asking for a selfie with her and her friends at dinner.
Thompson was reportedly “horrified” over learning about the waiter’s suspension and phoned the restaurant to ask them to reinstate him.
9. Maisie Williams
The Game of Thrones alum has no problem turning down fans who want a photo.
“I still don’t feel like I owe anyone anything,” she told Nylon . She added that if she really loved someone, she’d want to hang with them instead.
10. Amy Poehler
In an interview with Paper magazine, the comedian criticized the world’s obsession with social media and selfies.
“The amount of Instagram selfies seems crazy out-of-control,” she said. She explained that people taking a picture of her takes her out of the present moment.
11. Millie Bobby Brown
Near the end of 2020, the actress tearfully broke down about a harassing encounter she had with a fan while she was out Christmas shopping with her mom.
She said that the girl began videotaping her even though Brown had declined.
“I was paying and she walked past me and began to video me again,” Brown tearfully explained. “
And I said, ‘I’m a human being. Like, what more can I ask from you?'”
Bobby ended her tearful video by urging her followers to treat others with respect.
12. Kit Harington
Like Maisie Williams, the Game of Thrones alum isn’t down for photos. He told The Guardian that doing so makes him feel like being Justin Bieber.
He’ll especially decline if he’s out with his wife, Rose Leslie.
13. Frances McDormand
As a veteran actress, she considers herself “retired” from the photo-taking part of being a celebrity.
Instead, she prefers to have a real exchange with fans. “I’m not an actor because I want my picture taken,” she told the New York Times .
14. Shailene Woodley
The Big Little Lies actress refuses to contribute to the damaging effects of selfies and social media.
“The more we allow a certain projection, the more we’re feeding a generation to distance themselves from self-awareness and self-realization,” she told Glamour .
15. Miley Cyrus
The singer’s reasoning for not taking photos with fans is super surprising.
“I’m so embarrassed, because people are taking pictures of me, and I just don’t know how to — I don’t know how to smile,” she told Barbara Walters.
16. Kim Kardashian
She may be the queen of selfies, but don’t expect the reality star to snap a pic with fans anytime soon.
She told ITV’s This Morning that she prefers to “live there in real life” and that she’s not on her phone much anymore.
17. Chloë Grace Moretz
Scream Queen Chloë prefers to let her fans see the world through her eyes , as opposed to posing for a picture herself.
She believes that social media can present a warped version of reality and tries at all costs to refrain from doing so.
18. Kip Moore
The country singer reasons that since his heroes like Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger don’t make a habit of pausing to take selfies with fans, he doesn’t either.
Kip said to People that if he ever saw something like that, that it would ” destroy ” him.
19. Anna Wintour
Anna has been the editor-in-chief of Vogue for more than 30 years.
You’d think that since she’s at the very top of one of the world’s largest fashion magazines, Anna would be all aboard the selfie train. But ironically, she’s never taken one.
20. Ian Somerhalder
When Ian Somerhalder says that he isn’t taking fan photos, he means it.
In 2015, he reduced a fan to tears for refusing a photo with her after she’d spent hours camped outside of his Paris hotel.
21. Emily Blunt
There’s a very practical reason why Emily isn’t into posing for photos with fans — she doesn’t have Instagram.
Emily has also said that she’d rather meet her fans and have a genuine exchange, rather than simply snap a selfie.
22. Russell Crowe
Russell doesn’t like taking pictures with fans when he’s by himself and will shut down the request immediately — especially if he’s with his kids.
As Russell said during an interview with Larry King, he will not steal time away from his children.
23. Kirstie Alley
Kirstie Alley was politely approached by a fan on the street who asked to take a picture with the illustrious actress.
The former sitcom star politely declined the request , explaining that she absolutely hates the concept of taking selfies.
24. Tobey Maguire
If you’re ever out walking and happen to run into Tobey Maguire, do yourself a favor and cross the street.
When a French fan put his arm around Tobey without permission, Tobey became irate and violently knocked the camera out of the young man’s hand.
