Tonight at 9p is the season finale of The LA Complex on The CW and two of the actors from the hot drama told me just how real the show is.
We all got to know Cassie Steele on a little show called Degrassi. We got to watch her grow up that Canadian show and now she is playing a character that has a much different acting background than herself. So I wanted to know from her which character from the show she relates to, and she told me “I think I relate with Abby and Jewel (Staite)’s character Raquel because I was on a show for a really long time. Going from being a teenager to an adult. It is really strange because you don’t really know how to handle everything.” She added, “Getting this role I had to do a lot things I never really got to do on Degrassi like minimal clothing and not always having a punishment for the problems that I had. It was definitely an obstacle I had to overcome and start being comfortable with.” Watching the show about actors struggling to make it in Hollywood, you would think she was comfortable with everything about it from the get go. It could be because she has worked with the producers for half her life. When the 22 year old actress was just 11 years old she landed the role of Manny Santos on Degrassi, then she went on to their next show Instant Star and now she is starring 2in their latest project The L.A. Complex. So I wanted to know what it was like working on three projects with the same amazing company (that does some of the best television out there) and she said, “This is my third series with Epitome, that means I only had one good audition when I was 11 years old.” Then she jokingly added, “I don’t know what I slipped in their drinks, whatever I had in my lunch bag. I guess.” Whatever it was it was good and I, along with many others, am glad that she did because she has been fantastic in everything she has done with them.
Now someone who is a newbie to the Epitome world is Andra Fuller who plays Kaldrick King on the show. He is one of the few people on the show that is filmed in Toronto, who actually has spent a lot of time in Los Angeles trying to make it as an actor. So I wanted to know from him if the show is the real deal, he said “It’s so realistic, it’s scary. Some of the things that are addressed on this show are things I witnessed first hand. I have met people who literally live out of their cars. I have met people like Abby’s character, who are homeless, young 20s, living from couch to couch, don’t have money to feed yourself. The couple of dollars you do have, you have to make a decision do I use this $2 to catch the bus and go to this audition or do I use it this $2 to feed myself. Those are realistic scenarios that people go through on a daily basis in this town.” He then went on to say, “People think of Los Angeles, and Hollywood in particular, they think of the glamour, the glitz, the Walk of Fame and the Hollywood sign, not everybody gets to experience that. That is the 1%, the 99% are people who, either get caught up working other jobs and never get to be an actor which they aspire to be when they moved out here or they simply bow out, tuck their tail between their legs and move back home and say ‘LA didn’t work out for me.'” When you want the interview below, he goes on to explain why people who want to get into the entertainment business should watch this show.
What he says is so true because I read his quotes to my friend that has been acting for over half her life and she said she knows people like the ones he described and also people who have experienced what the characters go through on The LA Complex. Some of you are watching reality TV, but The L.A. Complex is the realist thing on TV. So watch the season finale tonight on The CW. If you missed any episodes you can watch it on The CW App or on CWTV.com.You will want to catch up on all the episodes fast because the second season is going to air on The CW starting in July.
The CW announced their fall schedule and they completely changed everything up except for The Vampire Diaries. 90210 is back on Mondays with the departing Gossip Girl. Hart of Dixie moves to Tuesday followed by another doctor drama. That is pretty sane, but then they moved Supernatural to Wednesdays against the Britney Spears X Factor and J-Loless American Idol and I am afraid for the show. It is like the demons made that decision to mess with the Winchester Boys. I hope they survive because I think it is The CW’s best show. Thursdays is pretty boring, but Fridays just got interesting with the move of America’s Next Top Model. The show is back with two people I never heard of, but for the first time we get to vote. I wonder if that move is too little, too late? I think their smartest move would’ve been to get rid of Tyra Banks, but that ain’t going to happen.
Oh and did I mention that none of these shows are coming back until October. Most shows that debut after September don’t live until the new year because people have already picked what they are going to watch? Pray for Supernatural, the show is going to need it.
THE CW’s 2012-2013 PRIMETIME SCHEDULE
MONDAY
8:00-9:00 PM 90210 (New Night)
9:00-10:00 PM GOSSIP GIRL (New Time)
(THE CARRIE DIARIES premieres January, 2013)
TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM HART OF DIXIE (New Night)
9:00-10:00 PM EMILY OWENS, M.D. (New Series)
WEDNESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM ARROW (New Series)
9:00-10:00 PM SUPERNATURAL (New Night)
THURSDAY
8:00-9:00 PM THE VAMPIRE DIARIES
9:00-10:00 PM BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (New Series)
FRIDAY
8:00-9:00 PM AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL (New Night)
9:00-10:00 PM NIKITA (New Time)
To read the descriptions of the new shows then click here!
The CW picked up the international hit Nikita and the darling Hart of Dixie for another season according to TV Line. Gossip Girl will also be back but only for a final 11 episode season. While the news good for the above shows, the news was deadly for Ringer and The Secret Circle that will not be back for a second season. It’s a shame they cut Secret Circle because it had a really good season finale that was setting up for an interesting season. Sadly they spent too much of this doing the same thing episode. Cassie’s life is in peril, she uses her black magic and someone has to rescue her. She never learned her lesson, so she kept messing up week after week. Yesterday’s episode was a game changer and was going to change that formula, but sadly we won’t see how.
Nina Dobrev was guest on Conan O’Brien yesterday and she did something that made her his favorite guest ever. The Vampire Diaries beauty used the TBS late night host as wall while she demonstrated a Yoga move called the Scorpion. Basically he stood there as she did a headstand and ran her feet down to his crotch area. By the looks of it actually touching him down there and that left his face as red as his hair. When she came up, he let everyone know just how excited he was that she used him as her wall and would be willing to be the substitute any time she wants.
And I have a feeling she wouldn’t mind either because here is what the Degrassi grad Tweeted before appearing on the show, “Quick 12 hour trip to LA to tape CONAN tonight! So excited to hang out with my favorite ginger in the world!!!”
Hopefully her favorite Ginger will be watching her in the heart stumping season finale of The Vampire Diaries on The CW at 8p.
And on that note good thing Nina’s boyfriend Ian Somerhalder was taping another talk show when she was Conan because I am afraid he would’ve showed his fangs to Coco had he been there and no one wants to mess with a pissed off Damon.
John Patrick Moore is one the few actors playing an actor on the buzzwothry LA Complex that airs Tuesdays on The CW at 9p and I spoke to him about his role of Connor Lake.
Moore plays an actor who has moved to LA from Australia and just landed his first big role and that is all he has in common with Connor. As he told me when he was describing his character, the major difference between the two is he doesn’t “suffer the same internal struggles that Connor does. He’s a real mess.”
So even though that part is fake, is the way the world of Hollywood is portrayed on the show real? This is what he told me, “I think it is very realistic. We get to cover such a huge amount of ground in just the six episodes that have been shot already to a really great extent.” He added, “It doesn’t really back off from the problems and the struggles that those people are going through.†If you have been watching the show, you know they are struggling with paying their bills, drinking, love and trying to do what they love even though there are so few jobs in entertainment. What you see is what you get in LA with this show and Moore knows because he has experienced what Connor has gone through to find work as an actor here.
So did Moore always want to be an actor, when I asked what else he does creatively he answered that question for me. He said, “I never wanted to be an actor. I did it because I changed schools a lot as a kid. I think the ninth grade, I went to a new school, and they said you have to drama and you have to do art and I was like OK.” Remembering fondly he added, “Fortunately I had a really terrific drama teacher, who became a bit of a mentor for me and helped me realize that I really loved it. Now I don’t want to do anything else.” And there is nothing else we would want to see him do.
So tune in every Tuesday night at 9p to see an Australian actor play an Australian actor on television. He is so believable, you won’t be able to tell he is acting on the most addictive show on television.
