'I am like my character in that I am black,' Jordan Carlos jokes to MTV News before tonight's premiere.
By Jocelyn Vena
Sunkrish Bala, Elisabeth Hower and Jordan Carlos
Photo: MTV News
The characters on MTV's new scripted series "I Just Want My Pants Back" are young, occasionally romantically challenged and always up for a good time. The show, set in New York, is a nonstop party that follows the lives of several twentysomethings trying to find love and find themselves in the Big Apple.
The characters each play a role (sassy, neurotic, lustful) in their circle of friends, the same way that those other "Friends" did back in the 1990s. The show focuses on Jason, Tina and the rest of their Brooklyn-dwelling crew as they struggle with unemployment and general disaffection. But are the actors anything like their characters on the show? MTV News investigates.
Jordan Carlos and Elisabeth Hower play the show's only couple. Their characters, Eric and Stacey, are extremely driven (she goes to law school, he goes to med school) and very much in love, but for Carlos the similarities begin and end with only one trait. "I am a black person," he joked. "I am like my character in that I am black."
Hower, almost on cue, added, "I am also a girl in real life," before noting that there's some part of those people in their real-life personas. "No, I think there's a little bit of all of us in the characters. We all have to connect to our characters."
Meanwhile, Sunkrish Bala plays Bobby, the gang's pal and the owner of their local bodega. Always quick with some sassy advice, Bala notes that, well, he's not quite like Bobby. "I'm nothing like my character," he said. "But I know a lot of guys like [him]. I have a relationship with guys [like that]."
While one half of the cast finds it harder to relate to their small-screen counterparts, Kim Shaw and Peter Vack seem to relate a bit more to their characters on the show.
With notes of "Sex and the City" thanks to the characters' ups and downs in the romance department, Shaw plays the sexy, Samantha-esque Tina, while Vack plays Jason, the male hipster equivalent to Carrie Bradshaw.
"We're probably too much like them!" Shaw laughed. "I wish I was a little quicker with my words like Tina is. She says exactly what she's thinking all the time. I think [Vack is] not as sexually deviant as Jason is on the show."
"Jason's not a sexual deviant," Vack protested. "I'm a romantic like Jason."
"I Just Want My Pants Back" premieres tonight at 11 p.m. ET, right after "Jersey Shore." Stick with MTV's Remote Control blog for more coverage of the show.
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1678409/i-just-want-my-pants-back-characters.jhtml
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