Rozlyn Papa was interviewed by Richmond Magazine.
Richmond Magazine
Some very interesting info about the show ie
Q:When you signed up for The Bachelor, did you think at all that you’d meet someone you’d have a relationship with?
A: When I signed up, they said [the competition is] between three guys: It’s going to be either Kipton, Reid or Jake. I never watched the show, so my sister and I YouTubed them. I talked to the producer, [who asked], “Is there any one that you like?” And I said, “Kipton and Reid, but I’m not interested in Jake.” And then, just before I left, they said it’s going to be Jake, and I said I’m not interested. They said, “Oh, it’s fine, just see what happens.”
They didn’t care that I wasn’t interested in him. So, for them to criticize me and say that I wasn’t there for the right reasons — they already knew that I wasn’t going to fall in love with this guy and that I wasn’t attracted to him. They’re not interested in that. They don’t care about people falling in love; they care about the ratings and the drama.
They have story-writers. Everything is very calculated. They knew going in that I wasn’t interested in this guy, but they cast me anyway. They were very much pursuing me to be on the show. It wasn’t the other way around.
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Q: Do you think they planned to cast you as the villain?
A: Absolutely. Everybody on the show — unbeknownst to the cast — has a cast sheet. I wasn’t supposed to see this, but because I made friends with one of the producers, I saw my own. So, it gives your background information, your likes and dislikes and insecurities. I mentioned to somebody, “Oh, I’ve got skinny legs, and that makes me self-conscious.” They have that on there; they want to exploit the things that make you insecure.
And they also said that I was going to be this season’s Wes [a Bachelorette contestant who confessed to having a girlfriend at home]. So before I even got to the show, my cast sheet said I was going to be this season’s Wes and that I wasn’t going to get along with the other girls. That was my story line.
They can’t control everything; they can’t control what you do, but they have a basic guideline of how they want the season to play out.
There’s 25 girls [at the Bachelor mansion] the first night [of the show]. You get to L.A. a couple of days before filming starts and do the photo shoots and everything, but they actually fly out about 30 girls. And every single one of those 30 girls thinks they’re definitely on the show. In reality, five of those girls are backup girls. In case somebody backs out or won’t do what they want them to do, they’ve got replacements. They want to see who’s going to be dramatic enough for the camera and if they’re going to follow directions
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An interesting interview. I’m sure some of it is true, although I take any of her comments with a pinch and a half of salt. I’d like to hear about this from a more reliable source! Among other things, I find it interesting that she says she was never interested in Jake. While I believe this to be true, Roz went to a good deal of trouble to convince Jake that she interested in him. She came onto him very strongly with passionate kissing quite early on, before any other girl that I recall. In my experience, that’s not the typical response of a woman who is not interested in a man.
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