I’ve been a Jeopardy superfan for years, and one of many issues I actually take pleasure in is when the present sometimes brings in a celeb visitor to introduce a class. This summer season, they did so with Gerard Butler, Nico Parker and Mason Thames from the How To Prepare Your Dragon forged. The class was about Viking tradition and would have been robust for me as a contestant, however because it seems, filming for the present isn’t tremendous straightforward, both.
It was a whirlwind summer season for Nico Parker and Mason Thames, who’ve been busy selling How To Prepare Your Dragon throughout the globe. As a part of this whirlwind tour, I spoke with the 2 actors about a few of their different enjoyable facet gigs, and naturally I needed to learn about what it was like filming for the long-running recreation present. Seems, it was extra “tough” than one would possibly count on.
We did once we had some content material days in LA and one of many issues that we did was Jeopardy! Nevertheless it was truly actually tough as a result of half of the phrases are actually small and fairly tough, and I bear in mind we have been studying off a teleprompter and I’m like, ‘I don’t know what I’m saying.’
Nico stated the teleprompter and the character of the questions didn’t make it essentially the most comfy gig, however her rambunctious co-star didn’t assist. Parker stated he was making an attempt to prank her and get her to mess up, and his technique labored.
It was [also] very aggravating. Mason was off digicam watching me whereas I did it, so I stored messing it up. It was so embarrassing.
Mason additionally jokingly informed CinemaBlend he “stored throwing issues at her” to get her off her a-game.
You’ll be able to’t inform ultimately outcome. Nico truly bought to ask two questions for Jeopardy! whereas Mason requested one, although each are very skilled. Gerard Butler has a humorous second the place he introduces the class and host Ken Jennings joked that he “can’t compete with that accent,” too. And among the solutions are fairly exhausting. I, for one, would by no means have gotten “Île de la Cité.”
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I’d all the time questioned how Jeopardy! filmed these enjoyable spots with actors, and it was attention-grabbing to search out out they’d simply schedule the filming in the course of a traditional press day. I’m nonetheless left questioning how the sport present decides what film and TV classes to spotlight and what actors ought to be concerned. However that’s a query for the writing workers.
Keep tuned!