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Kennedy blasts Sydneysiders
February 21, 2005 - 2:29PM

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Jamie Kennedy, as he appeared in Malibu's Most Wanted: ""Sydney acts like it's not impressed by celebrity. Yes, they are."

US comedian Jamie Kennedy has given Sydneysiders a big thumbs down.

Kennedy spent five months in Sydney last year shooting the action-comedy, Son of the Mask, at Fox Studios and, while promoting the film in the US in recent weeks, the Hollywood star has held little back about his beef with the city's residents.

He accused Sydneysiders of not being "real", described the women as being "uppity", the men as drinking too much and restaurant waiters as being overpaid and, consequently, rude.

"Sydney thinks it is Paris but it is really Nebraska," Kennedy told Canada's Toronto Star newspaper in one interview.

His views continued to be aired while a guest on US TV talkshows - including the top-rating Tonight Show with Jay Leno - and while sitting down for interviews in Los Angeles with print journalists from around the world.

Kennedy said his grudge was not with all Australians as he enjoyed the time he spent visiting other cities.

"I love the Gold Coast, I love Brisbane, I love Melbourne," Kennedy said.

He also liked Sydney as a city.

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"The food is great," Kennedy said.

"The city is great. The feeling of the place is great. The beaches are great. It's just the girls and some of the guys got on my nerves."

Kennedy made it clear he wanted Sydneysiders to read about his critique.

"You can print this. I don't care," he said.

"Sydney acts like it's not impressed by celebrity. Yes, they are.

"That's the funny thing. London is not impressed by celebrity. They don't care. Sydney acts like it isn't, but it is and it goes out of its way to say FU."

The 34-year-old, best known for his Candid Camera-style TV show The Jamie Kennedy Experiment and the 2003 comedy film Malibu's Most Wanted, is regarded as one of America's top young comedians.

His face is widely-recognised when out in public in the US.

Son of the Mask co-star, Traylor Howard, says that could have been Kennedy's problem.

Sydneysiders, especially the women, did not give Kennedy the star treatment he was used to.

"He did not get recognised," Howard, an American actress who lived in Bondi while shooting the film and loved Sydney, explained.

"I think he was so used to the ladies recognising him. I think it had a little bit to do with it.

"He had fun, but he would try to flirt with the girls, but they just weren't as flirty over there."

Other issues he had a problem with Sydney were ...

* Sydney's nightclubs: "First of all the clubs close at 2am. That's too early. Second of all, people drink excessive amounts alcohol to the point of being blue in the face. Three, the guys shave their chest and are all pumped up. Who shaves their chest?"

* Restaurants: "It's not a service-oriented country. Fifteen dollars an hour for a waiter? The guy is not going to want to get you your bread because he's like 'I'm making more than you'. In America we tip, but I tipped everyone and they were freaked out."

Son of the Mask, a spin-off of the 1994 Jim Carrey-Cameron Diaz hit The Mask, is scheduled to open in Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria in late March and in NSW, West Australia and South Australia in April.

Carrey and Diaz are not in the new film.

In Son of the Mask, Kennedy plays an aspiring cartoonist whose son is born with spectacular powers.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/People/Kennedy-blasts-Sydneysiders/2005/02/21/1108834711612.html

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Obviously he has no appreciation for other cultures...(stereo)typical American.
 

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The thing that annoys me most about his comments is the passage:
Sydneysiders, especially the women, did not give Kennedy the star treatment he was used to.

"He did not get recognised," Howard, an American actress who lived in Bondi while shooting the film and loved Sydney, explained.

"I think he was so used to the ladies recognising him. I think it had a little bit to do with it.

"He had fun, but he would try to flirt with the girls, but they just weren't as flirty over there."
Hes preddy arrogant to think that just because hes a celebrity that all the girls will suddenly be all over him. Plus he has to realise he hasnt had the same amount of exposure in Australia as in the US.

Anyway the average Sydneysider wont care about his opinion
 

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Meh.. it's all pretty pathetic really. Why would you care about the opinion of a C grade celebrity anyway?
 

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Its a sad day for journalism when the SMH has deteriorated to such bottom of the barrel journalism. If i want shit, ill watch the news.
 

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they act like they dont care? but they do

yeah that only applies to real celebrities- hes such a hack

he has that hidden camera show and pulls all these bad jokes acting like an american frat guy wannabe
 

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i dunno this guy, but on IMDB, that stupid sequel to the mask got a 2/10. therefore this guy can go and go eat shit. but thats not to say that i disagree with what he says, i think sydney sucks and ill be outta here as soon as i earn an income.
 

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I thought he was ok, but now hes just a dick, i hated how he said "Sydney people pretend not to be impressed by clebrities, but they are" Who the fuck is he to say as a majority what we are and aren't, fucking americans and there ignorance.
 

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shm.com.au has articles that a interesting and/or stupid on the right side column. they usually only get to print stupid things on sundays so they thought a bored column on one side would entertain people. just a possibility.
 

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