"I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks"
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MacLeod’s charm here is how casually he deflates the fantasy people project onto TV “authorities.” He’s describing the reality of celebrity labor: not a glamorous spiritual calling, just a job made of “interviews and stuff,” managed like a logistics problem (“about 40 media people,” “a very, very busy week”). The repetition of “very, very” does quiet work. It’s not eloquent; it’s tired. That plainness signals credibility, the voice of someone who’s been inside the machine long enough to stop romanticizing it.
The subtext is a gentle boundary-setting with fans and press. He’s saying: don’t confuse my on-screen role with an off-screen vocation. Yet he also knows exactly what the public wants from him: the spillover of the character into real life. When he drops the anecdote about marrying “about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay,” he’s offering a wink to that desire. It’s fan service framed as mischief.
“But that was all just for kicks” is the key tell. It’s MacLeod reclaiming agency in a culture that turns actors into symbols. He’ll play along, but on his terms, and he refuses to dress it up as profound. The joke is that a mass wedding in a picturesque bay sounds like a grand, sentimental spectacle; he punctures it with the language of a guy remembering a goofy gig. In that gap between public pageantry and private shrug sits the whole economy of celebrity: manufactured meaning, efficiently managed, occasionally enjoyed.
The subtext is a gentle boundary-setting with fans and press. He’s saying: don’t confuse my on-screen role with an off-screen vocation. Yet he also knows exactly what the public wants from him: the spillover of the character into real life. When he drops the anecdote about marrying “about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay,” he’s offering a wink to that desire. It’s fan service framed as mischief.
“But that was all just for kicks” is the key tell. It’s MacLeod reclaiming agency in a culture that turns actors into symbols. He’ll play along, but on his terms, and he refuses to dress it up as profound. The joke is that a mass wedding in a picturesque bay sounds like a grand, sentimental spectacle; he punctures it with the language of a guy remembering a goofy gig. In that gap between public pageantry and private shrug sits the whole economy of celebrity: manufactured meaning, efficiently managed, occasionally enjoyed.
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