News from conference call with Family Guy guest star Lauren Conrad
April 22, 2009 by Wendy Boswell
I was lucky enough to participate in a conference call with Lauren Conrad, who will be featured prominently in May 3’s new Family Guy episode, “We Love You Conrad.” Here’s a few snippets from the call:
On being a fan of the show:
Yes, I am a fan of the show. I’ve watched it for years. My favorite character is Stewie, and I, a while ago, did – I only did a few lines, but I did a couple lines on an episode where they were watching television, and they did a clip of Laguna Beach, and that’s how I met Seth and the first time I got to do the show.
On seeing herself as a cartoon character:
It’s fun. I mean, that’s actually the most exciting part is to see what you look like animated. I think that I was basically just a blonde character though in this episode.
On the Family Guy character she identifies with most:
I don’t know. I don’t know if there’s someone I really want to be like on that show. Maybe Lois. I don’t know. I feel like she’s the most normal.
On her character in the episode:
A little bit. I don’t know if it’s necessarily me or just the reputation of an average reality star they were going for, but the idea in the episode is that, I mean they basically make fun of me for being dumb, and then he discovers that I’m actually a genius and that it’s kind of a character I play because America likes dumb people, so that’s kind of the idea of it. I think it’s a more exaggerated version of who I am, but it was kind of fun to play.
On hiring an ACTING COACH to do this episode (wtf?)
No, I stuck to the script, actually. I think that their writing is probably a lot better than what I would come up with, but I did have to actually hire an acting coach just for the day to kind of get me through it because a lot of the lines later on in the episode I did are very complicated. I’m talking a lot about history and theorems and conductors and just there’s a lot of facts and a lot of big words, and I had to say it as if it was coming to me very easily, so I had to learn the lines ahead of time rather than just reading them. So I actually had to research some of them because my – the acting coach I worked with told me that if I really understood what I was talking about, it would come through a little more true.
So overall, a pretty good call. She really is a ditzy blonde girl, though, make no mistake. This episode will air May 3, 2009.
