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Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Behind the Scenes of And Just Like That - Filming Insider Tells All

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

Rhony, Tv & Film, Andycohen, Rhobh, Realhousewives, Bravotv, Vpr, Rhoc, Bravo, Popculture, Rhop, Pumprules, Bethennyfrankel, Lgbtculture, Rhod, Realhousewivesofnyc, Rhoa, Vanderpumprules

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Did you know our friend Stefan from MLVC (the Madonna podcast) spent the summer working as a background actor for And Just Like That!? Well, Stefan is here and ready to SPILL on... the scenes he filmed, experiencing Che Diaz in the wild, Cynthia Nixon’s wig, the erasure of Chris Noth/Big’s flashback scenes, 14-hour days, being directed by Michael Patrick King, how much background actors are paid, production’s deal w/ paparazzi and more. PLUS, how his And Just Like That experience compared to filming the upcoming season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel!

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives and welcome to another edition of Hot Takes

0:20.7

and just like that edition.

0:23.2

I am here with a returning friend, Stefan from the Madonna podcast, MLVC,

0:30.2

Stefan, welcome. How are you?

0:32.0

Just like that. Here we are.

0:33.8

And just like that, it's time for you to spill after all these months.

0:39.2

Yeah, where do you want to start? Let's just dive in.

0:41.4

Basically, what you've been kind of alluding to a little bit on social media for people who follow

0:47.5

you is that you were actually a background actor this entire summer for and just like that.

0:55.6

Correct.

0:56.1

But this may be a little surprising for people.

0:59.7

You know what? It's background work. I don't think a lot of people think about background work

1:04.4

at all. I think background actors are sort of because they're in the background and they're not

1:09.0

the main focus of the scene. No one sort of thinks about it. Now that's all I watch after doing

1:14.4

background work. I now just watch all the background actors to see what they're doing.

1:18.7

It was a dream for me to be a part of the Sex in the City world because I was the fan of the original

1:24.8

show. Obviously, I'm obsessed with the new version and I had managed a small acting studio many

1:30.9

years ago in New York and to the credits that all the actors who walked in the door had on their

1:37.2

resume was the Law and Order franchise and Sex in the City. And I was always so jealous

1:44.0

that they were able to be part of Sex in the City. And every time I'd watch it, I'd be able to

1:48.1

identify some of the actors in the background. So when they were announcing that they were going

1:55.0

to come back and do this new iteration and just like that, I was like, you know, because I missed my

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