Okay, I absolutely hate Wesley Crusher (though that’s the least of things I hate about Star Trek), but when Memepool decided to link to several sites related to Wil Wheaton, they missed this Wheaton’s excellent interview with the Aint-It-Cool-News folks.
Anyway, I’m reading through this thinking this is one of the better interviews with people who aren’t famous anymore when I come to this part which makes me clap my hands. Wheaton talks about how lucky he felt when he was asked by the Make A Wish Foundation to give a dying child a backstage tour of the Star Trek: The Next Generation set. And then launches into a very un-PC attack on the enemy of all things good in the world, The Backstreet Boys,
Like The Backstreet Boys refused to let a little girl, through the Make A Wish Foundation, come backstage at the end of one of their concerts. So, I’d just like to say right now, on record, fuck them. Fuck them. I mean, honestly, was it going to kill them to take 15 minutes away from sitting back there, drinking beer, patting themselves on their collective back, talking about how great they are? Honestly. There are times when you get an opportunity to do something, to really make a difference. Not the way everybody says, “I’m going to make a difference.” I mean really, right now, directly make a difference in somebody’s life. You gotta seize those opportunities and if you don’t, then fuck you and I hope you fail. OK. Off the soapbox now.
Now that’s the kind of thing I want to read in celebrity interviews. Besides, whatever you say about Wesley Crusher, you gotta admit he never sucked as bad as any of The Backstreet Boys (I’m not sure that’s much of a compliment, but it will have to do).