is it just me or does it kinda feel as if the reporters got a ‘no questions about Will’ warning/request. Normally every other question is about their chemistry. And now 0 questions. Ofcourse Mack manages to bring up will himself, but I thought that was interesting.
Oh anon I wondered too. Like why no questions about the offseason with your dear partner and friend? Why no questions about your training plans? Why no question about who sleeps on which side of the bed? Why Macklin Celebrini. Why.
Kuneyasu: Thank you for coming in today, Mr. Hiroaki. I have to say, out of everyone I'm speaking to today, I think your demeanour has changed the most between our first interview and this one.
Hiroaki: Our first interview? Who the hell are you?
Kuneyasu: I'm afraid it would be a bit pointless to try and explain, I'd rather just jump right into the interview, if you don't mind. You're a personal favourite student of mine, so I'm a bit eager to pick your brain.
Hiroaki: I- Favourite student? Wh-What the hell are you talking about?
Kuneyasu: Could you please state your name and occupation for the record?
Hiroaki: What the hell's the point? You already know.
Kuneyasu: I do, but for any other staff who might be listening to this recording with a little less familiarity, it'd be helpful if you introduced yourself.
[A beat]
Hiroaki: ... When we're done with this, I get to go home, right?
Kuneyasu: You do.
[A beat]
Hiroaki: M-M-My- [shaky breathing] M- [inhales] M-My name is Hiroaki Nakamigawa, I'm a designer.
Kuneyasu: And what is it you design?
Hiroaki: Menswear.
Kuneyasu: I see. And you designed the outfit you're wearing right now, yes?
Hiroaki: Yeah.
Kuneyasu: Mr. Hiroaki, I have to note, you're much less talkative today than you were the first time we spoke.
Hiroaki: I-I-...
[A beat]
I-... I-I just- want to go home. I-I don't want to be here anymore.
Kuneyasu: You've been participating in the killing game for about thirty-six days now. Could you describe your experience with that?
Hiroaki: I-It... i-it-it was like hell.
Kuneyasu: In what regard?
Hiroaki: Th-Th... That was the worst shit you could have possibly put another person through. What was the point?
[A beat]
I-... [shaky breathing] D-Do I even get to know what that was for?
[A beat]
Figures.
Kuneyasu: What are your plans for when you get home? From the killing game, I mean. What'll you do first?
Hiroaki: I...
[A beat]
F-F-Find a way to talk to Takeshi.
Kuneyasu: You two seem to have gotten rather close.
Hiroaki: Yeah.
[A beat]
Kuneyasu: Well, with that in mind, I've only really got one question left for you before we send you on your way. You've changed a lot over the course of the game, so l'm curious to know- do you consider yourself a good person, or a bad person?
[A beat]
Mr. Hiroaki?
Hiroaki: I'm thinking.
[A beat]
... l dunno if I was ever a good person.
[A beat]
Kuneyasu: I don't have any further questions for you, I'm afraid. None that would fit within our time limit, at least. With that, I'm going to have to let you go. Dr. Tatematsu will escort you back to the lobby and help you collect your things. After that, you're free to go home.
Hiroaki: ...Th-There's no way it's that simple.
Kuneyasu: It is. You're going to walk right out the front door.
Hiroaki: There's no way it's that simple.
Kuneyasu: It is. I promise.
I'm going to end the recording now, Mr. Hiroaki. This'll actually be the first time in thirty-six days that you're not being recorded. Fun.
Justin, if you don't mind me asking. Will be there more "Inanimate Answers"? (It's ok if you dont answer)
Answering another one of these separately because my brain had a little brain-thought. Noggin-whispers. Skull-wiggles.
Exit Interviews! Like today's! Are similar! To Inanimate Answers! Mayhaps't've??
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For some background, for Blueberry's I arranged the questions in order and had Barry improvise answers. Then I used those responses to write transitional phrases for our interviewer, Yellow, whose dialogue was mostly scripted. Then with Fan's, I arranged the questions again, but then Brian and our interviewer, Absolute Legend Mickel™, completely improvised their interview on the spot. Then maybe Adam did some light improv for Lifering? OJ's was very scripted, but in a fairly straightforward question-answer way.
Aaaaand, to get the present, Since Box's bizarre Exit interview, Brian and I have been writing them out together, with occasional guest writers, such as Dee helping a lot for Clover's. And here the goal of each of them is to not only find fun answers to the viewer's questions, but to also either find a real core to a contestant's story and help them re-ground themselves post-show, like for Tea Kettle and Cabby, or to shed some more light on a character by having them have an affect on an interviewer who needs to learn a lesson, like for Lifering (in the Box Exit), Clover, and Goo.
And this was always the mentality of Inanimate Answers! Just in a new form. Sometimes Apple needs to learn a lesson from Justin+Santa, sometimes Justin needs to learn a lesson from Balloon. And, in both shows, zaniness ensues. I'm still laying out viewer questions, and getting to use them to craft a little story that explores character not only through those questions, but also a culmination of what those questions mean to the character. It's fun!
One plus for the Exit Interviews is that I get to craft an interviewer who works as a strong foil for the contestant. Dr. Fizz is the perfect target to be driven crazy by Lifering, Bryan as an Interviewer was written to have insecurities that only Clover could help with, and now with today's Goo Exit, I knew for a long long time I wanted to create an interviewer for Goo who would be entirely opposed to Goo's silly existence.
On the flip-side, getting to write the very very bizarre character of Inanimate Answers Justin is veryyyy fun. I do think he fits best when placed next to Knife, whom Justin was created to bounce off of. Not to say that Justin doesn't work next to the other contestants on Inanimate Answers, but I remember when I decided I wanted to do Balloon next that I realized that the core couldn't just be the comedy of Balloon being annoyed by Justin's zaniness, because Balloon natural wouldn't react as strongly as Knife. So, that's when we started exploring different types of cores of an episode, such as showing Justin in the wrong and needing Balloon to help show him the light. Or Justin and Bow who get along surprisingly well, and it becomes about their chemistry. Or Justin being able to easily spot the underlying insecurities Apple has and having a deep dive into the root of those.
Aaaaand after writing all that, I'm missing Inanimate Answers more haha.
But! Exit Interviews are always a delight, as well. And I very much hope that y'all have a fun time as I and the team play around with different fun ideas to play with the question-answering, whilst've still trying to make mainline eps as frequently as possible. Wish us luuuuuck.
Aaaanyway I'm really happy with the Goo Exit Interview. Gettin' all gooey thinking about it. Hope you enjoy! And lemme know what y'all think on Inanimate Answers vs Exit Interviews (vs Fan Features??)!
A shoot is not complete and performers not paid until the exit interview, in which performers confirm the acts were consensual. Often, the director who just filmed the scene will interview the performer, asking questions like, “Did you have a good time?” and “Were you raped or abused?” and “Would you shoot with us again?” A performer’s paycheck is held hostage unless they answer “correctly.”
This seems like a great way to ensure all performers are happy and videos are consensual, but it’s common for performers to lie in these interviews. Why? Think about it.
If a performer is honest about the abuse they endured on set, they will not be paid for the day’s work—many live paycheck to paycheck, so this isn’t an option—and the entire day’s shoot will be rendered wasted and unusable. This costs the production companies serious money, which in turn means they won’t hire these performers in the future, and will essentially mark them as difficult to work with.
Just read this response to Raven and Nixon from a fellow porn performer
