Here's interesting answers to some of the questions.
The show has been criticized for having a lack of diversity in its cast. Do you think that's true?
Reilly: I donât! They have a diverse cast every season. Itâs unfair because [casting director] Robyn [Kass] casts people off of whoâs going to do well with every other person in the house. You need people who arenât going to get along, you need people who will go head-to-head, you need people who will have a showmance and be best friends too.
Levasseur: Itâs not always about the color of your skin, itâs about backgrounds and upbringings. When you go into that house thereâs a very eclectic group of people in there. They might look similar and not that different of a skin color, but at the end of the day they come from different parts of the country and theyâre raised completely different, but everyoneâs entitled to their own opinion.
Reyes: Iâd like to see more diversity, but I understand that they have to be cast based on personality. I do like it to be more diverse. I would love to see an African-American win it â that hasnât happened yet. They cast African-Americans who werenât the best players at the time. I also tend to root for villains more than anything, because I like people who are willing to get their hands dirty and donât care. They crack me up. The show has been diverse, enough to the point where I havenât stopped watching.
Roy: There was diversity last season by personality type. You need an explosive person, you need a dumb person, you need a manipulative person. They may not look the most diverse, but it may just be because those are the personality type suppliers for that year. I would like diversity though! You know me, Iâm always rooting for the diverse underdog. I don't think there really is a reason for there never being a black winner. It took a very long time for a gay man to win, and we've never had a gay woman win. There are a lot of boxes left to be filled.
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If next season was one of these three, which one would you rather: all first-outs players, all former runners-up, or all newbies?
Reilly: First-outs because they never really got to play the game and I bet you theyâve been boiling over it since they got evicted. Annie would win. Please donât bring back David [Girton] from season 15. The runners-up sometimes are duds. People pick them because theyâre duds. If we had a situation where all the runners-up were Cody [Calafiore], then, yeah, that would work.
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._. @ Rachel saying Runner ups are duds and then using Cody as an example of a good runner up.. #bb18
Also, it's lame how they all went about answering that diversity question. Like they couldn't say anything negative about the casts we get. It's the same every year basically. Everybody knows we need more diversity. Not just race but age aswell. BB17 had a good diversity w/ gay, lesbian & transgender. & BB16 did well w/ 3 black people & whatever Victoria & Joey were. Now we just need a better age group like the show used to do. A cast where the average age is 32-35. Throw in a bunch of younger, a bunch of 30 somethings a few people older than 35. Atleast 2 older than 40.
