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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Backrooms Star Lukita Maxwell Had to Stop Herself From Binging the Web Series Its Based On · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: The new Hits horror movie back Rooms is a bit
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  Speaker 2: unique in that there's a ton of source material it's
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  Speaker 2: based on for its actress to reference, made by the
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  Speaker 2: same creator and director, Kane Parsons. His YouTube web series
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  Speaker 2: is of the same name.
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  Speaker 1: But it's interesting because one of the movies stars, Lukita Maxwell,
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  Speaker 1: decided to stop watching the web series after she started
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  Speaker 1: binging them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. She actually told Discussing Film that when she got cast,
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  Speaker 3: she immediately wanted to dive into the episodes and did,
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  Speaker 3: but then realized that it might not be the best
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  Speaker 3: choice for her character.
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  Speaker 2: Cat Lukita started to go down the rabbit hole, which
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  Speaker 2: fans of the series tended to do, but she wanted
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  Speaker 2: her character to have a fresh perspective, and if she
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  Speaker 2: learned about all the creepy Easter eggs and weird stuff
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  Speaker 2: that fans obsess over, it might be harder to portray
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  Speaker 2: her realistically.
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  Speaker 1: But I love that as soon as her gig as
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  Speaker 1: an actress ended, her nature as a fangirl took over,
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  Speaker 1: and she immediately binged the entire web series and headed
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  Speaker 1: it directly to Reddit to dissect every detail with other.
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  Speaker 2: Fans, backrooms, people are talking about it is now playing.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.