‘Overeager’ reporter slammed by internet as cringeworthy Dennis Quaid interview goes viral amid LA fires

Dennis Quaid was pulled over for an interview Friday night during the evacuation of the Los Angeles wildfires, and the Internet is focused on the “overzealous” reporter talking to him.

In a now viral news clip, the 70-year-old actor was interrupted by a reporter NBC4 Los Angeles and his cameraman outside his Brentwood home.

As he tried to pack his car, the reporter, Robert Kovacik, started asking him questions and Quaid politely answered them.

At one point he even became emotional during the interview, despite hurriedly trying to pack his family’s belongings from their home and quickly evacuate them.

However, viewers of the news segment took to X, formerly Twitter, to criticize the reporter for being “obnoxious” while “harassing” Quaid.

The news channel was also criticized for airing the segment for 15 minutes as people watched in anticipation for critical wildfire updates and evacuation orders.

The segment first started with the reporter introducing Quaid and saying, “I’m going to walk with you if that’s okay,” but the actor did not appear to respond.

At one point, fans pointed out that the reporter even knocked on Quaid’s driver’s side window after he got into his car, closed the door and appeared to be getting ready to drive away.

The reporter complimented his “Quaid smile” and seemed to try to keep the interview going, even with cars honking in the background, sirens blaring at various points in the video and as members of the fire department continued to walk around them and stare.

During the interview, Quaid revealed that he was returning to pick up some more important items after he and his family had been evacuated sometime earlier.

‘Who would have thought that? We have all had a very big lesson… that our experience of reality can change in the blink of an eye,” he said on the news.

“I came back in case I hadn’t turned off the gas, you know, all those little things you don’t think about and thought, maybe I can be there to put a hose on the roof when the embers come over at least . Something like that, or help the neighbors.’

The reporter was also fascinated by the extent to which he referred to the Substance star in the third person and because he was “snooping” about what Quaid put in his trunk.

Even Quaid called him out for using his full name when addressing him, but laughed it off.

The reporter was also criticized for standing in his way as Quaid held a large basket of clothes and tried to pack his car.

One social media user gave an example of the “bizarre” interaction when the reporter said: “It’s fun to watch Dennis Quaid trying to fit two baskets of his 17-year-old daughter’s clothes into his Mercedes.”

At one point he even opened one of the baskets and took out a pair of Quaid’s pants.

The reporter was criticized for making too many jokes while trying to find levity in difficult and devastating circumstances.

At the end of the clip, he knocked on Quaid’s window and had him open his car window so he could place his microphone in the car to interview him and his dog Peaches.

Social media users said Quaid was nice and talkative, even as he “frantically” tried to pack his car and evacuate.

“Not those interviewing Dennis Quaid as he frantically tries to pack his things to evacuate,” one tweet said.

“I just watched the most compelling news segment of my life,” one X user tweeted. ‘It was surreal and bizarre.’

The same social media user said the reporter “wouldn’t stop chasing Dennis Quaid as he was packing his car to evacuate. He even knocked on his car window after rolling it up. Insane intimidation.’

“For Pete’s sake, let Dennis Quaid pack up and leave,” another user wrote before calling the clip “painful to watch.”

One X user tweeted: ‘That newsreader follows [and] interviewing Dennis Quaid was so embarrassing! How unpleasant! I felt sorry for Quaid!’

Another tweet called the interview “horrible” and “disrespectful.”

The X user wrote: ‘What kind of person goes through someone’s stuff without permission?!?!! He tried to pack up and leave, but Robert tried to go viral by asking pointless questions [and] sniffing around…’

One tweet joked about the extent to which the reporter referred to the actor in the third person. “NBC reporter found Dennis Quaid evacuating and continues to call him Dennis Quaid.”

“Lmao this guy bothers Dennis Quaid so much lol on NBC,” another user wrote.

Another user laughed at the reporter’s interaction with Quaid as the star tried to pack his car.

“Not NBC 4 holding the 21,000-acre Palisades Fire emergency newscast dead for 15 minutes to interrupt and interview Dennis Quaid as he packs his car, and Dennis Quaid’s dog Peaches, while I wait to see if I need to leave my house in Sherman Oaks,” another user wrote while criticizing the outlet for the poorly timed news segment.

Hollywood’s biggest celebrities have picked up the pieces after discovering their affluent Los Angeles neighborhoods were reduced to ash and rubble as California’s wildfires began to devastate the city.

Apocalyptic fires swept through the upscale enclave of Pacific Palisades on Tuesday, quickly spreading to surrounding suburbs as a storm carried embers and debris in all directions.

The death toll from the historic infernos reached 16 on Saturday evening, as heroic firefighters continue to battle hellish conditions on the frontlines of at least five different fires.

The homes of Mel Gibson, Paris Hilton, Anthony Hopkins, Tina Knowles, John Goodman, Candy Spelling, Milo Ventimiglia and Miles Teller are among those destroyed, while dozens of other stars sit next to their neighbors anxiously waiting to hear if anything could happen . stored.