AS: We took more couples than we ever have all the way through…We ultimately are choosing to follow the couples that we feel have the best chance of getting all the way through the experiment.
Last season there was a lot of drama, and ultimately only one couple ended up getting married. Some fans love the drama, some hate it, but did that season change your approach in any way?
AS: I think it’s hard for people to believe that we have no goals…Chris and I hardly know the ins and outs of what’s going on until the weddings. You can’t begin to shape it and tell these stories until you know who gets married. We truly, truly, truly just document it…there is no goal for it.
If anything it is regional. There can be a feeling about a cast; whether it’s maturity or immaturity or they’re a little bit more partiers and they’re not. I love season six. I love the season six cast. I think they’re, they’re funny. The season six cast is really funny and they’re very lovable. I think the DC crowd is mature. It’s not that things don’t happen. They absolutely still had bumps in their journey, but they were handled largely in a more mature way. So it was thoughtful conversations more than, or tears more than yelling.
Would you ever consider doing a different demographic for the show, say a “golden” Love is Blind?
AS: I would love to. It’s not ever come up in a serious conversation between us and Netflix or anything like that.
The show is now in its seventh season, and as a lot of reality dating shows mature it becomes harder to gauge who is actually there “for the right reasons.” Have you changed your approach to casting now that the show is such a known entity?
AS: I think the only shift has been, and I wouldn’t even call it a shift, I think it was there from the beginning, but we agree that skewing a little bit more on a mature side, whether that’s age or general maturity, does help. I think we want successful endings, we want successful marriages and relationships, and so when maturity is a part of that, it definitely, I think you can see that in the end result. There’s little things where we’ve said, like season one or two, we weren’t going to consider anyone who had children. We have become a little more open-minded.
