The ‘Laguna Seaside’ Forged Reveals How Scripted the Sequence Was

Spilling the MTV tea! The Laguna Seaside solid is opening up about how a lot of the early 2000s actuality present was scripted — and the way a lot of it was actual.

“It was softly scripted, so the story traces have been actual. I imply, take into consideration your self in highschool, proper? You’re 18, you battle with a buddy, however then you definitely transfer on in every week or two, proper? And it’s over. However [on the show], we lived that out for, like, three months or three episodes,” Alex Murrel completely informed Us Weekly on Tuesday, November 1.

Lauren Olsen, referred to as “Alex H” on the present, echoed her former costar’s sentiments, explaining that they might usually should rehash previous drama for the sake of the collection.

“It will be, like, the tip of the summer season, so, like, July [or] August, after which MTV would come and be like, ‘Hey, we have to re-talk a few dialog that occurred about promenade. So, we’re gonna meet on the seashore and I would like you women to speak in regards to the drama that occurred,’” Olsen recalled.

The fact TV veteran added that producers would even ask them to recreate their appears to be like from previous episodes by sporting the identical garments and doing their make-up the identical approach. “I simply keep in mind at the moment it was so annoying since you’re like, ‘I don’t even keep in mind how I did my hair or my make-up,’” she stated.

Though Olsen stated the solid didn’t “have a script to learn traces from,” she admitted that it nonetheless felt like manufactured actuality at occasions. “MTV had an angle and so they made positive that they obtained that,” she stated.

Murrel went on to admit that the present’s notorious love triangles — together with the drama between Stephen Colletti, Kristin Cavallari and Lauren Conrad — have been blown out of proportion.

“It was very contrived. Like, they knew that there have been story traces and so they constructed upon these, and timelines have been cut up and reduce aside. And since it was shot like a cleaning soap opera just about, it was laborious for viewers to grasp if it was actuality,” she stated.

Murrel added that she feels the identical approach about her personal love triangle with Jessica Smith and Jason Wahler. “[It was a] highschool relationship. It was, like, every week or two,” she quipped.

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