‘Ungrateful’ Cara Delevingne doesn’t know ‘desperate’ Richard Madden, angry-tweets him anyway

If Cara Delevingne didn’t know who Richard Madden was before, let’s hope she does now -- because he’s apologized to her for a perceived slight he says was taken out of context.

Well, maybe he explained more than apologized, but at least he responded.

Delevingne was apparently reacting to stories that bubbled up in the United States this week saying the “Game of Thrones” and “Cinderella” actor had slammed the model/actress about an awkward interview she had back in July with a Sacramento morning show.

Seems Madden, who played Robb Stark on the HBO drama, was somehow asked about that interview by a writer for the London Times’ Style magazine. “He clearly has his question-aversion tactics down pat, which might explain his short shrift for Cara Delevingne’s awkward film promo interview on the US news show Good Day Sacramento, which recently went viral,” Julia Rebaudo wrote, setting up Madden’s quote near the end of the piece, which was published Sept. 6.

“It was unprofessional. ... It made her seem ungrateful,” Madden was quoted as saying. “She showed her age. For ‘Cinderella,’ I did six weeks of those interviews, where you get asked the same eight questions. If you’re not capable of doing that gracefully, then don’t do it.”

Days later, around the beginning of this week, outlets including E! News, HollywoodLife and US Weekly picked up the quote and slapped in into headlines that we presume were what set Delevingne off.

“I have no idea who you are but I think it’s little desperate for a grown man to be bad mouthing someone they don’t know,” Delevingne tweeted at Madden on Tuesday afternoon, continuing, “if you really want attention that badly, try focusing on your own work and not other people’s.”

(So, yeah, lots of people replied to her tweets with comments along the lines of, “You’ve really never watched ‘Game of Thrones’ or the new ‘Cinderella’?”)

Madden replied via Twitter in the wee hours Wednesday with a clarification: “Hi @Caradelevingne, nothing but respect for you. Misquoted and blown out of proportion. #SlowNewsWeek.”

And he’s right: With the Emmy Awards coming Sunday -- “GoT” was nominated for 15 Emmys this year -- celebrity news is very slow. Not as slow, though, as it was during that awkward Delevingne interview, when time seemed to stretch.

There, the anchors talk-talk-talked their way into questions and the notably low-energy “Paper Towns” star cracked a couple of dry jokes as she launched into her replies and struggled to focus on the camera during the apparently blind remote. After a while, she noted that it was morning and the premiere had been the night before, and then the woman anchor who’d called her Carla at first said, “We’ll let you go then.”

Next, apparently surprised that the feed of Delevingne had cut off and gone to color bars after being let go, the anchors went a little nutty slamming her for being sarcastic, irritated and “in a mood” during the interview.

We can only imagine what the Style writer was talking to Madden about that set up his very quotable quote about a few minutes on an American news program.

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