Well, this is the point. I wouldn't say that it's her amplifying her act, because the La Course/Vlaanderen Cille wasn't an act. She references that in the interview Greg linked:
“Maybe sometimes I get the feeling that they would love me to go crazy this one time. I’m not an act, I’m not putting on a show,” she says. “I am that way because that is me in that moment, that is me when I’m super happy. I think people, in time, they will also see when I don’t do well, I will not give a crazy interview.”
This is the point. I am wary that some people might come to expect that level of craziness all the time, and be disappointed if Cille doesn't act up to that level, but at the same time I am pleased that she is self-aware enough to know that. You can see that in the Flèche Wallonne interview when she bursts out laughing self-referentially referring to terms that have become thought of like catchphrases for her. And as you can see from things like the Rouleur interview and the quiz with Ned Boulting, and from various other clips dating back years, she's still energetic, engaging and charismatic when she isn't being crazy.
The other reassuring thing about the self-awareness is that it means it's much less likely that she will stop being genuine, which beyond anything else is what made her so entertaining in the first place. If that interview at Flanders was a carefully pre-planned and orchestrated grasp at memedom, it wouldn't have been half as entertaining, because with every exaggerated gesture and expletive, you relived the race from her perspective and, most crucially, you believed her. There would be a hilarious irony if they tried to media train her into being "that" Cille at all times, when the very thing that made "that" Cille so appealing was the complete lack of media training in her responses. Like Kimi Räikkönen but at the opposite end of the spectrum, after a dozen rider interviews which are all very sterile, media-trained and constructed primarily of cold analysis and cliché, a completely unfiltered, genuine interview really stands out as more genuine, more honest and more real.
Plus of course, if you actually read into what she says, she is a very astute reader of race tactics and can give a very detailed account of how a race developed and, from her team's perspective at least, why. So long as people are willing to accept she won't be a walking meme every time she speaks, they will hopefully be able to recognise that she is nevertheless entertaining, charismatic and honest every time she speaks, and hopefully some of those people who were attracted to pay attention to women's cycling by her interviews listen to enough of their content to understand the racing and come back for more of it.
“Maybe sometimes I get the feeling that they would love me to go crazy this one time. I’m not an act, I’m not putting on a show,” she says. “I am that way because that is me in that moment, that is me when I’m super happy. I think people, in time, they will also see when I don’t do well, I will not give a crazy interview.”
This is the point. I am wary that some people might come to expect that level of craziness all the time, and be disappointed if Cille doesn't act up to that level, but at the same time I am pleased that she is self-aware enough to know that. You can see that in the Flèche Wallonne interview when she bursts out laughing self-referentially referring to terms that have become thought of like catchphrases for her. And as you can see from things like the Rouleur interview and the quiz with Ned Boulting, and from various other clips dating back years, she's still energetic, engaging and charismatic when she isn't being crazy.
The other reassuring thing about the self-awareness is that it means it's much less likely that she will stop being genuine, which beyond anything else is what made her so entertaining in the first place. If that interview at Flanders was a carefully pre-planned and orchestrated grasp at memedom, it wouldn't have been half as entertaining, because with every exaggerated gesture and expletive, you relived the race from her perspective and, most crucially, you believed her. There would be a hilarious irony if they tried to media train her into being "that" Cille at all times, when the very thing that made "that" Cille so appealing was the complete lack of media training in her responses. Like Kimi Räikkönen but at the opposite end of the spectrum, after a dozen rider interviews which are all very sterile, media-trained and constructed primarily of cold analysis and cliché, a completely unfiltered, genuine interview really stands out as more genuine, more honest and more real.
Plus of course, if you actually read into what she says, she is a very astute reader of race tactics and can give a very detailed account of how a race developed and, from her team's perspective at least, why. So long as people are willing to accept she won't be a walking meme every time she speaks, they will hopefully be able to recognise that she is nevertheless entertaining, charismatic and honest every time she speaks, and hopefully some of those people who were attracted to pay attention to women's cycling by her interviews listen to enough of their content to understand the racing and come back for more of it.