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Evan Starkman Chats with Buddy TV

by Shea on January 15th, 2007

Buddy TV got an exclusive interview with The Duel’s Evan Starkman. Here’s a taste:

So, do you think there’s more drama this season on The Duel compared to Fresh Meat, or less?

I think on The Duel there’s a lot more drama. People are paranoid. Like I said, you’re by yourself. Everyday you’re looking behind your back. You see conversations happen around the house. You want to be in every conversation. You’re paranoid because it is just you, you don’t have anyone that’s guaranteed to have your back. Also, I think that a lot of the stuff that went down on The Duel was very intense. You have some love relationships with CT and Diem, you have some racial tensions between Robin and Aneesa. That’s very intense stuff that really divides the house. There was none of that bullshit on Fresh Meat. The Duel had some very intense situations. Beth obviously raises the tension level in the house by about a million percent.

Read more after the jump…

We all witnessed the Robin and Aneesa incident. Were there things that went on behind the scenes that we didn’t get to witness on the episode? Was it as bad as what we saw on television?

Yeah, I think it really was as bad. I think that Robin, who I still talk with, was completely out of line. And you will remember - this is not the first time that she’s made some sort of racial remark on a television show. We’ve all made mistakes, we’ve all said things that we wish we could take back, but when it becomes a repeated habit, you have a problem. You know what I mean? I think that is what really hurt Brad’s feelings and other people that have known her for a while. It’s like, “Wow, you haven’t progressed beyond this? It’s not cool to be a racist. It’s not cool to judge someone on their sexual preferences.”

And especially when you live in a Real World house, there are a lot of people who make a lot of different choices and come from different backgrounds, so it’s, like, you’ve lived with people like this for years, so you should definitely be a little more accepting, and I definitely think that the show did give it a fair portrayal. The only thing maybe people didn’t really get a sense of enough was how offended people in the house were, beyond Aneesa. Some people even though that…for example, if Tina gets sent home for hitting Beth in the face, is a racial remark not even more hurtful than a punch in the face? Are words not as powerful as a fist? So, some people were even asking for Robin to be sent home. That’s how intense it got for a period in time.

To read the complete interview, head over to Buddy TV.

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