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How the Extras on ‘The Curse’ Influenced Its Story · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, Benny Safety, and Nathan
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Speaker 1: Fielder's new show, The Curse has a tone that feels
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Speaker 1: a lot more like reality than most scripted programs, and
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Speaker 1: one of the ways they create that vibe is by
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Speaker 1: casting smaller roles from inside the local community of Espanola
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Speaker 1: in New Mexico where it takes place. These are real people,
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Speaker 1: not professional actors, which has been done before in the past.
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Speaker 1: But what might set the show apart is how much
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Speaker 1: these real people, essentially extras, ended up impacting the storyline.
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Speaker 1: Nathan Tell's showtime, we adapted around their personalities and our
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Speaker 1: actual dynamics with them. If something was interesting about that,
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Speaker 1: we just adjust the script before the shoot. That's natural
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Speaker 1: to me and Benny to ask how would they say it?
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Speaker 1: Who is this person really? How do they exist in
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Speaker 1: this space? To make it as close to that as
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Speaker 1: we can. Christopher Nolan is a huge fan of The Curse,
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Speaker 1: describing it as unlike anything he's ever seen, one of
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Speaker 1: the only shows in history where there is no precedent.
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