MTV’s most iconic reality series, “The Real World,” visited Baton Rouge’s Mugshots Bar and Grill on Saturday in hopes of finding the newest roommates for the show’s 27th season.
“We decided to come to Baton Rouge … because we love coming to the South,” said Bunim/Murray casting director Jessica Thompson. “We get a lot of genuine people who have a great understanding of what it means to be passionate about other people and learning about other people’s entertaining.”
Thompson kept an eye out for people who have unique personalities with unheard stories ready to be shared.
“We really are just trying to find that right mix of people who are passionate, relatable, have fun, have goals and have stories to tell,” Thompson said. “People who you would want to follow for essentially four months of that.”
The casting directors aren’t only looking for wild characters. Thompson said they also look for people who want to take something away from the “The Real World” experience.
“The type of people that I look for in terms of being casted for the show are genuine and passionate and definitely have a great charismatic personality who want to actually learn from the experience,” Thompson said. “That is what ‘The Real World’ is about. You are putting yourself in a house with six other strangers that you have no control over. I would hope someone would want to walk away from the experience knowing something about yourself or have grown as a