In this interview with Zack Taylor, Melinda Shankar announces that season 10 will have 48 episodes! That is huge number of episodes for one season, and might explain why we’ve heard reports of season 10 premiering in the summer. Melinda also confirms that season 10 will begin filming next month.
Also on Twitter today Stephen Stohn confirmed that each episode of season 10 will be a half hour long and will take these characters through an entire school year.
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Continuing to promote 18 To Life, Stacey has done another interview with TheTVAddict.com. When asked about the success many Degrassi stars are finding these days (Nina Dobrev, Shenae Grimes, etc.) she said: “Degrassi didn’t feed us anything in particular or give us water to drink that turned people into celebrities! … I go to auditions now and nothing compares to the stuff I had to do on that show. Really heavy, emotional and challenging material which they would just throw at us and we would figure it out as we went along. Degrassi was the ultimate boot camp.”
Read the full interview right here.
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A great new interview with Stacey Farber has surfaced. Lately she’s been busy promoting her new TV series 18 to Life. In this interview she discusses the series along with what it takes to go from playing a dramatic character like Ellie to a light hearted character like Jessie.
On the change she said: “I loved being on Degrassi and I played a character on that show that was so layered. I had so many different story lines. But for the most part, I did play a depressed girl. It could be heavy, ‘angsty’ stuff … I hadn’t done comedy before and it’s really tough”
18 To Life premieres on CBC TOMORROW! However, tonight CBC will be airing special previews during their broadcast of the Hannah Montana Movie. Stacey and Michael have filmed introductions and will be showing a sneak preview of the first episode.
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Adamo Ruggiero recently did an interview with Out Magazine which you can now check out online! In the interview, Adamo talks about his latest movie (Making the Yuletide Gay), what it was like coming out to his friends, parents, and brother, as well as Adam Lambert’s AMA performance. Here’s an excerpt:
You said you’d like to play more gay characters in the future. What kind of gay characters would you like to explore?
I want to play a character who struggles with issues outside of being gay. My straight friends go through the same kinds of things that gay people my age do. We’re worried about finding a job or how to deal with our families. I think if we show a character who doesn’t talk about his sexuality so bluntly, it will be more powerful.
Click here to read the full interview!
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Jake’s new interview from the Spring Awakening Totally Trucked channel on youtube!
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Stefan tweeted earlier this week that he and Paula were going to be on BiteTV. Now, the video has been posted online! In these interviews, Paula and Stefan talk about what will happen next on Degrassi. The love triangles, the drama, etc. These contain spoilers!
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In a new interview with Seventeen.com, Melinda Shankar talked about her love of fashion, including her very large shoe collection.
She told the blog: My sister and I have the same size feet. It’s good and bad, because sometimes you want to wear them and she has them. I would say we own 200 pairs together. It’s bad. I have a problem!
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CTV.ca just posted a great new article & interview with Jamie Johnston for the launch of season 9. The article includes information about what happens in the premiere. As well, Jamie talks about how he prepared for the role and what he hopes people will get out of it.
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In a new interview with CTV about Degrassi Goes Hollywood, Lauren Collins talked about her future on Degrassi. She says that she will not appear in the 9th season and she doesn’t see herself going back to Degrassi:
“I don’t see myself going back to Degrassi although if they ask me, you never know but I think (Paige’s) time there is really done and I think she’s stuck in L.A. so we’ll see where that goes … It’s weird. This was the first year that summer rolled around and I wasn’t going back to the studio.”
Good luck to Lauren in the future! We know that her time on Degrassi will only be the start of her career.
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Adamo and Lauren did a lot of interviews while promoting Degrassi Goes Hollywood in New York. Here is another one with PopEater. It includes a video, and Lauren and Adamo discuss their fame level in the US vs. Canada, Drake’s recent success, plus more! Here’s an excerpt:
Lauren: “The die-hard fans of the show, no matter where they are, are the same, and they’re all really supportive. But I think in general, there’s a much more media-obsessed culture here in the States. And I don’t think that’s a bad thing… so we always get a huge, huge response… We never experience that in Canada. Never, ever ever ever”
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Above is a picture of Lauren Collins at Planet Hollywood in New York yesterday. She and Adamo were there to make their memorabilia donation like I posted earlier. You can check out a video of their appearance courtesy of Popstar! Magazine on youtube. Lauren and Adamo also made an appearance on MTV’s It’s On With Alexa Chung which you can check out on youtube right here. MTV also has an article up on their website about Degrassi Goes Hollywood, which includes quotes from Lauren and Adamo.
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Unlike my last post, these ones are actually real.
The first comes from EdgeBoston.com and Jake mainly discusses his role in Spring Awakening including the challenges of singing on stage every night and how he was cast in the role.
The second is a video interview from Chicago 3 Media which also focuses on Spring Awakening. You can watch this interview on youtube right here!
As part of the promotion for Degrassi Goes Hollywood, lots of the old cast members have been doing interviews recently. This includes Jake Epstein, who did an interview with Examiner.com. In the interview he talked about Spring Awakening, Degrassi Goes Hollywood, as well as his music. He even says that he is working on getting his own album out soon! Read the full interview right here.
edit: We have reason to believe that this interview was not done with the real Jake. Sorry guys!
Cassie Steele did an interview recently in which she talks about her beauty regimen (surprisingly simple), what she does to stay healthy, as well as her new CD coming out on July 21st. When asked what makes someone beautiful, Cassie replied:
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Macleans Magazine did an article on Drake recently and they discussed his time on Degrassi a lot. Linda Schuyler and Stefan Brogren were interviewed, and they talked about his reaction to rapping on the show (for the episode “It’s Tricky”), his rumoured relationship with Rihanna, the new cast’s reaction to his success, and his charisma that they saw in him at an early age. It’s a worthwhile read! Click here to check it out.
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Adamo Ruggiero participated in a panel of young LGBT stars hosted by Kathy Griffin on Thursday night presented by Academy of Television Arts and Science’s Diversity Committee. Adamo was asked about playing Marco, as well as his own coming out story.
“I got Marco just around the time I was starting to stand up for myself,” Ruggiero, who had been picked on in school for being different, remembered. “So Marco was kind of my idol.”
“I felt like I could do what I wanted to do on the playground and on TV as well. And so, growing up with him, he was coming out faster than I was, and I just wanted to keep up.”
Griffin followed that question by asking what it was like to be playing a character who was more out than the then very young Toronto-born actor.
“It was petrifying,” the actor admitted. “And my parents were watching the show! I ran out of excuses [not to watch it with them]. At the beginning I kind of resented [Marco] a bit, but then I realized I had like the best gay manual ever… and I got to gauge my parents reaction.”
You can read some of the rest of what he had to say right here.
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Head on over to the forums at Degrassi.tv and you’ll see that there is now a thread where you can submit questions for any of the current Degrassi TNG cast members. The questions will be answered during the podcasts recorded with the cast during the shooting season this summer. So think up some good questions and post them at Degrassi.tv now!!