The Hills Cast May Be Desperate Enough To Do A Movie
August 9, 2011 by Hollywoodite
The Hills, what was effectively a spin-off of Laguna Beach and Lauren Conrad’s four fans getting above their station, was really an annoying non-event. It had the ratings and it somehow had the ability to make the vapid cast stars in their own rights. But, it was forgettable. It was oddly-uneventful. It was pointless in that it was so scripted and staged one wonders who watched and thought it could possibly be real. It helped establish precedent for things like people being filmed at fictional places of employment, people pretending to be friends because they looked good on screen together, and people staging fights with people they were still friendly with.
The fake break-ups, the fake relationships. Other than Whitney Port falling on live television, there wasn’t one genuine, real, or warm moment caught by the cameras in all the years the show was in production. Somehow memorising all those lines and keeping a fake smile plastered on their faces tired out the cast. That’s the real reason Kristin Cavallari took over as lead and that’s the reason some of the cast dispersed to the extent they did after production stopped. Or, so says Audrina Patridge. The cast were too tired to pursue the fakery. In fact, they were so wiped out from being paid to do nothing, they skipped the chance to star in a The Hills movie produced by the same people. Because any of these attention whores knows how to turn down free money.
After six drama-filled seasons on MTV, The Hills came to an end in July 2010. But according to show alum Audrina Patridge, the cast may reunite for a movie based on the semi-scripted series. “[Hills creator] Adam DiVello did talk about wanting to do a Hills movie, but we were kind of all just so fed up with each other that we all needed a little break,” Patridge, 26, said on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio show. “We’ve all had our break, so maybe we’ll all come back together and do a movie,” Patridge added. “You never know.”
The only hitch? Lauren Conrad, 25, who left during the show’s fifth season, told Us Weekly in July that “at this moment,” she had no plans to return to reality TV.
Conrad’s one-time BFF Heidi Montag, 24, who currently stars on VH1′s Famous Food, may not be interested in reuniting with her former castmates, either. “We were all getting paid to be people we weren’t for so long that you stop, there’s no line,” Montag’s husband, Spencer Pratt, recently told The Daily Beast. “The gauge is gone. The gray area is gone. We got so deep with how many storylines we had to do to continue the machine.”
“I thought when this was all over, I could get on an interview and say, ‘It was all entertainment,’” Pratt, 27, said. “I thought I was the Wizard of Oz, like, I’m the guy behind the curtain.” – via Us Weekly.
Even with a lame reality show of her own, that made her mother look like an unhinged and neglectful alcoholic who favored the famous sister over the non-famous ones, Patridge is getting Ryan Seacrest interviews on her own. That’s amusing in itself.
But no, this was a thing. This was on the table and while cool indie productions don’t get made because of lack of funding, unless the team wants to dip into its own pockets, people wanted to throw their money at a The Hills movie. A movie that some of the cast are considering and the rest are not. The ones who aren’t actually seem pooped from being fake. Who knew that was so draining? Pratt didn’t want to play someone he wasn’t for the rest of his natural life. So, he can retire, broke, no longer famous off faking divorces or tape leak drama and he can live in his parents’ basement with his wife like he has been doing (since, evidently, that’s his preferred alternative).