The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There’s nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

Barks frames the “red carpet” as a staged, artificial ritual—an environment designed to feel exceptional rather than ordinary. Her emphasis on “maintain[ing] some normality” highlights a coping strategy for celebrity exposure: preserving routine and groundedness up to the last possible moment (“right until the point you get out of the car”). The quote suggests an awareness of how quickly public performance can overtake private selfhood, and it values psychological continuity amid spectacle. More broadly, it comments on fame as a liminal experience: the car door becomes a threshold between everyday identity and a curated public persona.