![]() It was dumb to do on camera,” Mortensen said.įour months in paradise may sound enticing for the average college student, but cast members were forced to live without familiar commodities that many people take for granted, including a television and stereo, in order to increase cast interactions and the drama of the show, produced by Bunim/Murray in conjunction with MTV. Once a student at the University of California at Berkley, Mortensen was involved in a relationship with fellow housemate Brecher, which provided unnecessary drama that he says was a non-issue. They just pick a storyline for you according to what is most sensationalistic to TV and that becomes your character,” she continued.įorming a cast of four women and three men proved daunting for MTV, as Mortensen explains that “most of the women on the show, including cast mates Amaya Brecher and Kaia Beck, were last minute additions. “It was really hard because they do not show you as a whole person. ![]() I’m a three-dimensional person,” Alcaide said. “When you see yourself on TV, it is one dimensional. ![]() “I thought I had a pretty interesting life story and wanted to get it out,” she continued. “They told me I was because they fell in love with my personality. “We are a nation of people who want to be famous.”įor Alcaide, her magnetic personality was key to being cast for the show. “The show strives to make the audience feel better than the cast members,” he said. “That is a great thing to be typecast as on TV, a ‘loser,'” Mortensen said, adding he was initially drawn to host the special because of the $750 compensation from MTV. Unbeknownst to many viewers, each “Real World” cast member receives approximately $4,000 in stipends following their stint on MTV for the eight-and-a-half hours of aired episodes that were condensed from 3,000 hours of raw footage.įresh from working and interning at radio and television sports departments, the then 18-year-old was approached by Bunim/Murray productions to host a casting special for the upcoming “Real World” season, where he was encouraged to interview potential cast members so the public could see what made them tick. ![]() and Alcaide, 25, a native Hawaiian, appeared on the eighth season of “The Real World,” shot on location in Diamond Head, Hawaii, with five other co-eds from across the country.įollowing an extensive casting process, the seven strangers were brought together to live rent-free for four months in a swanky Hawaiian hideaway just steps away from the beach.įor Mortensen, who was originally rejected as a “Real World” cast member, the experience was simply to fulfill a common goal for most college students: to get out of debt. Mortensen, 23, originally from Thousand Oaks, Calif. Lecture Chair and QU junior Andrea Szymona headed up the free event, which also featured a question and answer session and autograph signing. Quinnipiac welcomed two new roommates to campus Saturday night, but not your typical students ready to unpack their belongings in the traditional residence halls.Ĭolin Mortensen and Ruthie Alcaide, of MTV’s reality television phenomenon, “The Real World: Hawaii” appeared at Alumni Hall for a lecture sponsored by the Student Programming Board. ![]()
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