Reality-Show Secrets: When Did They Say That?
When you see commentaries from castmembers on reality shows, are those interviews done during taping of the show or after, when everything is over? Selim, Rotterdam
Both.
When Sean rhapsodized on The Bachelorette about how much he loves his mamahe talks to her three or four times a day, boy howdy!that was probably a prescheduled chat. It most likely happened sometime during the production season, but not necessarily on the same day that Twilley was filmed hugging his weeping meemaw.
You can often spot a prescheduled interview by its stiffness. “It can often can seem more staged and scripted,” reality-TV producer Tommy Swanhaus tells me. So here’s how it all works behind-the-scenes at reality shows…
The other type of interview is known as an OTF, or an on-the-fly. Those happen almost immediately after some dramatic moment. Producers pull aside the Bachelorette contenders, say, right after the host makes the stunning announcement that the cocktail party has been…canceled (OMFG!). And then the cameras capture every moment as the guys are all, Whoa, man, didn’t see that coming.
You’d be amazed at the hoursand hoursof interviews that reality-show contestants go through, even for just a single-episode gig.
Shauna Raisch, owner of the Twiggs SalonSpa near Minneapolis, taped an episode of Split Ends airing tonight on Style. She estimates that, during four days of taping, she did a couple of hours of interviews per day, including OTFs and a prescheduled wrap-up interview at the end of each day. She also sat down for a two-and-an-half-hour marathon interview on her last day of taping.
“After a while,” Raisch confides, “it becomes almost entertaining. I found myself laughing with interviewers, the way they were asking questions and getting their answers. It could get so ridiculous.”
Oh, and be my fan on Facebook, ’kay?
Reality-Show Secrets: When Did They Say That?
When you see commentaries from castmembers on reality shows, are those interviews done during taping of the show or after, when everything is over? Selim, Rotterdam
Both.
When Sean rhapsodized on The Bachelorette about how much he loves his mamahe talks to her three or four times a day, boy howdy!that was probably a prescheduled chat. It most likely happened sometime during the production season, but not necessarily on the same day that Twilley was filmed hugging his weeping meemaw.
You can often spot a prescheduled interview by its stiffness. “It can often can seem more staged and scripted,” reality-TV producer Tommy Swanhaus tells me. So here’s how it all works behind-the-scenes at reality shows…
The other type of interview is known as an OTF, or an on-the-fly. Those happen almost immediately after some dramatic moment. Producers pull aside the Bachelorette contenders, say, right after the host makes the stunning announcement that the cocktail party has been…canceled (OMFG!). And then the cameras capture every moment as the guys are all, Whoa, man, didn’t see that coming.
You’d be amazed at the hoursand hoursof interviews that reality-show contestants go through, even for just a single-episode gig.
Shauna Raisch, owner of the Twiggs SalonSpa near Minneapolis, taped an episode of Split Ends airing tonight on Style. She estimates that, during four days of taping, she did a couple of hours of interviews per day, including OTFs and a prescheduled wrap-up interview at the end of each day. She also sat down for a two-and-an-half-hour marathon interview on her last day of taping.
“After a while,” Raisch confides, “it becomes almost entertaining. I found myself laughing with interviewers, the way they were asking questions and getting their answers. It could get so ridiculous.”
Oh, and be my fan on Facebook, ’kay?
Michelle Rodriguez Goes to the Dogs
Formerly of Lost but never at a loss for words, Michelle Rodriguez lets it rip in typically uninhibited style in an interview with Latina magazine. Lamenting the sickness of most interviewers who are only interested in “what I’m doing with my vagina,” Michelle gets down and dirty with the whole topic of sexuality.
"If I wanna f–k a girl, a boy, a dogthat's my business. That's why there's bathroom doors."
Or kennel doors, as the case may be. Yipes! Sounds like Michelle needs to sip a cup of calm-down.
Jessica Alba Talks Fantastic Four 3, Dark Angel, Apocalypse
Jessica Alba is the Britney Spears of actresses. As Dennis Hopper says as he ashes, “It’s a fact.” Rumor is, Alba was invented a la Vanessa Angel on Weird Science for us movie blogs on slow days. Want to make a good and original Internet buck? Make a 2008 calendar with Jessica Alba fully clothed 12 times, or better yet, 14. Today, she confirmed to IESB that a Fantastic Four 3 is in the works, or was…
“I know the writers strike and the impending actors strike has kind of put a wrench in everything production wise. That film takes a lot of prep, a good six months of prep and about six months to shoot. With the strike, I think, maybe it’s put on hold.”
Cloy to the world: Enter “Little Franklin” into the franchise, mighty son of Alba’s Sue Storm…
“Little Franklin? Yeah, I think that would be hilarious. He’s so powerful, I think that would be a really interesting dynamic a mother-child dynamic. She’s still a superhero but she’s super-protective and he’s wild, he can do anything and has no sense of what’s appropriate, that would be really fun.”
And I’m convinced that if two more interviewers inquire about a Dark Angel theatrical movie, it will become a reality, like Beetlejuice…
We’ve talked about it, I want to work with Jim so I would pretty much do anything he wants to do.”
Somewhere outside an overrated party in L.A., the Silver Surfer is desperately texting his agent about a solo film as The CobraSnake snaps a photo of his fannypack and Nike Dunks.