But this is the nature of the festival press conference or round table interview, and we must all learn to live with it.
I was at a round table interview with several other journalists in an echoey hidden area of the convention.
"Bud used to have this line, where he said, 'Now this family is broken just like the rest of this country," Burlanti explained during a round table interview.
The families who have been in the White House have paid a price for that experience, and oddly, they all want to get back in the White House," Sigourney Weaver explained to HuffPost TV during a round table interview in June.
She submitted to four round-table interviews over three days in which Pakistan's leading journalists took their best shots at her, and she even counterpunched once or twice.
As they go on the publicity trail, sitting reluctantly at press conferences or on round-table interviews, the "talent" can give the impression that they feel just as trapped as James Caan, when he is tormented by the fan from hell (Kathy Bates), in Rob Reiner's Misery (1990).
"This was a challenge from start to finish because it was hard to establish the tone," Diablo Cody is saying, sitting in what appears to be a well-used hotel room where she's just spent a day doing round-table interviews.
This interview was conducted at a small round-table interview in Cannes, where Madagascar premiered.
After he finished a round-table interview with a group of voters in the diner, to be broadcast Monday, the congenial anchor autographed copies of his best seller, "The Greatest Generation," for the interviewees.
