All the Most Underrated Quotes from Julia Fox's Latest Interview About Dating Kanye West
This weekend, Interview magazine rolled out even more of the Kanye West/Julia Fox narrative in a (maybe regular column?) called—no joke—"Fox News." According to the new Q&A, Julia called up the magazine from bed and announced that she was going to call "weekly, maybe bi-weekly" to chat about her date nights with Kanye.
Julia got into some pretty serious territory during the call, opening up about "surrendering" herself in the new relationship, the catharsis of Kanye's makeover of her wardrobe, and what her life was like pre-Ye (she says she was "f*cking miserable"). But she also dropped some pretty incredible one-liners, LOL honest commentary, and thoughts that could either be deep wisdom or total nonsense. In honor of these double-take worthy quotes, we've compiled some choice moments from the new Interview chat that are just *chef's kiss*.
This succinct summary of how media works:
"I’ll send pictures, I’ll tell you stories. And you’ll publish them."
Context: Julia issued this low-key command/explanation of the basic relationship between sources and the media at the start of the chat, while she was establishing her plan to give weekly or biweekly date night updates to Interview.
The beauty of this moment is how simultaneously simple and extra it is. She's unironically explaining how the media works to the media. The language is so straightforward and matter-of-fact that it's impossible to guess the tone (sarcastic? Earnest? Condescending? Demanding? All of the above? NONE of the above?). It's everything and nothing all at once, just waiting for the reader to project their assumptions onto. Are these two sentences an allegory for Julia herself? Is she holding up a mirror to society here? Or is she just making sure she and Interview are on the same page about how this transactional relationship (details of her private life in exchange for traffic and any associated revenue) is going to work? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but also 🔍🌀, you know?
This unapologetic main character energy:
"You’re either born a muse, or you’re not."
Context: First, Julia was asked if she felt like she was a muse (presumably to Kanye). She answered, "I’ve always been someone’s muse." No further elaboration. Then, Interview asked what being a muse means to her and she said the above, again with no elaboration whatsoever. Iconic, honestly.
This hot take on hanging out with Madonna vs. eating Caesar salad:
"I wasn’t obsessed with the Caesar salad. How could you be obsessed with a Caesar salad when you’re sitting next to fucking Madonna?"
Context: One of Julia and Kanye's dates this week involved hanging out with Madonna at Delilah in Los Angeles. During the dinner, Julia got up from the table several times and returning to find different food waiting for her, a culinary adventure that culminated in her eating a Caesar salad. Interview asked if she was obsessed and then this magic happened.
This moment, when she described herself as a "candidate for this position," re: her relationship with Kanye:
"And that’s why I feel like I’m a really good candidate for this position, because a lot of people in my shoes would probably be reading the comments and freaking out."
Context: This came during an exchange focused mostly on Julia's personal aversion to reading things like headlines and comments, including headlines and comments about her. In a rare moment of unprompted elaboration in the Q&A, Julia explained that her selective reading preferences are a good thing when it comes to handling the scrutiny tied up with dating Kanye, but also described her Totally Authentic Not PR Relationship™ in very corporate/job posting language in the process. Accidental slip/awkward wording moment? Intentional conspiracy theory fodder? 🍿🍿🍿
The very random (probably) Robert Pattinson shade/Richie Shazam goss embedded in this namedrop list:
"Dave Chappelle, Marilyn Manson, Naomi Campbell, the actor from the new Batman, Cam’ron, Jack Donoghue from Salem, Andrew Richardson from Richardson magazine, Richie Shazam, all my friends came. Richie ate sashimi with Marilyn Manson and they had a really nice heart-to-heart."
Context: Another Kanye date Julia described in the chat was a screening of Zola they attended at an "enormous futuristic warehouse in downtown L.A." along with several other celebrities. When Interview asked which other celebs were there, Julia rattled off this incredible list, which includes two clear highlights.
First, one celebrity is described simply as "the actor from the new Batman." This immediately suggests Robert Pattinson, since he's the lead in The Batman (which comes out in March), but could technically be any actor in the movie—Zoë Kravitz (who's playing Catwoman), Paul Dano (who's playing the Riddler), Colin Farrell (who's playing the Penguin), Jeffrey Wright (who's playing future-Commissioner Gordon), Andy Serkis (who's playing Alfred), Peter Sarsgaard (who's playing Gotham's DA), or pretty much anyone listed on the movie's IMDb. Is this shade? Is she protecting the Batman actor's privacy at their request? Interview doesn't follow up or even acknowledge it in the transcript of the call, so it's a mystery.
That's not all this quote gives us though. The second gift of the quote comes at the end, in the form of an incredibly random, but also personal and sweet, piece of gossip about Richie Shazam and Marilyn Manson bonding over sashimi with no additional explanation or context. Why? Who knows, but that's a fact/unexpected mental image that's going to be in our brains forever now, so we all owe Julia a thank you for that.
Like we said, this treasure trove of quotes is:
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