TV star Olivia Cooke has revealed she hated the viral Negroni Sbagliato meme for a ‘very long time’, after it went wild on TikTok.
The Game of Thrones prequel actor, who sat down for an interview with their co-star Emma D’Arcy for the first season of House of Dragon, never intended in going viral for something unintentional.
In 2022, at San Diego Comic-Con, HBO asked the celebrity duo to sit down with each other for the TikTok video.
Olivia asks Emma, who uses they/them pronouns, ‘What’s your drink of choice?’
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Now if you’re a fan of the meme, you’ll know their answer was: “A Negroni, Sbagliato, with Presseco in it”.
They leaned closer and smiled.
The TV star replies, ‘Ooh, stunning’ and says she’s become a fan of an ‘elegant’ martini with a twist.
At the time, Olivia understood the Negroni Sbagliato meme had gone viral, joking she should ‘tell her mom’.
They told the New York Times: “I keep thinking I should tell my mom that I’ve become a meme in the hope that she’ll be happy for me, but I’d have to explain what a meme is, and I’ve decided it’s too much effort”.
Now, two years later, she admits she hated it blew up the way it did. They now refuse to do TikTok videos ahead of the Season 2 premiere.
“It’s just sad how you work for eight months and it f*****g gets reduced to a f*****g TikTok, and that makes me sad,” she said.
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“We were just trying to make each other laugh,” Olivia added.
“There’s no rhyme or reason to it. I did hate it for a very long time. I was in the pub, a woman opened the door for me, and she said with a thick Spanish accent: ‘Stunnin’!’ I was just like, Oh my God. Over a decade’s worth of work reduced to a single word in my lexicon.”
Emma also appeared to agree: “I don’t have anything illuminating to say on it because it’s very hard to know how to react when you become a meme.”
But fans aren’t convinced: “The meme lasted for a month like two years ago and it mainly used Emmas voice. Why is Olivia acting like her career is ruined because of it.”
And another wrote: “Girl chill this meme is viral bc of Emma D’arcy’s sexy voice and not bc of you.”
While someone else came to her defence: “Olivia is allowed to be annoyed about something that affects HER if she doesn’t like the meme that’s fine it’s never that serious.”
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