So, you see, if I tell the whole story here, then I will be asked about it over and over by the hosts of Access Movietown and Entertainment Forever for the rest of my short-lived career.īut I will tell you this: My scar was a miniature form of celebrity. And egomaniacs of average intelligence or less often end up in the field of TV journalism. My whole life, people who ask about my scar within one week of knowing me have invariably turned out to be egomaniacs of average intelligence or less.
#Tina fey scar movie#
An Oscar-y Spielberg movie where I play a mean German with a scar? Yes. I’m not interested in acting out a TV movie with you where you befriend a girl with a scar. They might as well walk up and say, “May I be amazing at you?” To these folks let me be clear. They ask with quiet, feigned empathy, “How did you get your scar?” The grossest move is when they say they’re only curious because “it’s so beautiful.” Ugh. Then there’s another sort of person who thinks it makes them seem brave or sensitive or wonderfully direct to ask me about it right away. It was not a black guy, Ricky, and I never said it was. Sometimes it is a fun sociology litmus test, like when my friend Ricky asked me, “Did they ever catch the black guy that did that to you?” Hmmm. Some people are just dumb: “Did a cat scratch you?” God bless. Most people never ask, but if it comes up naturally somehow and I offer up the story, they are quite interested. I’ve always been able to tell a lot about people by whether they ask me about my scar. I only bring it up to explain why I’m not going to talk about it. I’m not going to lay out the grisly details for you like a sweeps episode of Dateline. Jeff Richmond says a stranger slashed Tina’s face in the front yard of her house when she was 5 years old.ĭuring the spring semester of kindergarten, I was slashed in the face by a stranger in the alley behind my house. In Tina Fey’s January 2009 cover story with Vanity Fair Magazine, the comedienne’s husband reveals the history behind the prominent scar on her left cheek.
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