Is it real
is this show really unscripted or is this just a regular show?
I started it. The whole "having a soul". Before it was all the cool new thing.
No, it's not. Basically the show works like this: the actors on the show got together at the beginning of the series with the producers and discussed various experiences they've had as actors. The producers took these stories and decided which ones to use in which episodes. Then they improvised these scenes in one take, usually substituting the other actors on the show for the people in their real lives (e.g. Jennifer substitutes that Dragon guy for her real-life boyfriend).
Where the show actually DOES overlap with reality is that it will often incorporate tha actors' actual jobs into the show. So, for example, when Bryan went to New York to film a movie with Meryl Streep and Uma Thurman, the cameras went along and filmed a few quick scenes with him and his co-stars.
But then what part of the New York stuff was real or somewhat real, and what was totally for the show?
Like Bryan didn't really get smashed and show up to work part drunk, where he was acting like a doofus in from of Thurman and Streep...that must have been just for the show.
And Krista Allen, in real life, is she really struggling with wanting to play meatier roles but she keeps getting roles as just a pretty face/body?
I liked her in everything I've seen her in, she was good in "Days of Our Lives" and she's capable of playing some "real acting" roles.
And Jennifer Hall is using her own name, but she's obviously playing a character of a naive, gullible, pushover.
I wonder how much of a character Bryan Greenberg is playing...? His is more believable for a guy of that age in the business, but still quite naive and unprofessional.
(Anyone else think the girl playing Pamela (or at least, the character, I don't know which, or both) is a whole lot like Janeane Garofalo?)