The Rad Girls Interview
April 22, 2008 @ 12:17 PM - Features: Interviews
Do you find that you get away with more because you’re girls?
Munchie: Oh hell yeah. We haven’t been arrested yet!
Ramona: Tell her about the slumber party.
Clementine: Oh yeah (laughs). We jumped into this bed in a department store and we started having a pillow fight. We took out magazines and Coke and Cheetos and were totally ruthless. And no one came to kick us out! We waited and waited and waited….
Munchie: Someone came after a while and he just felt really uncomfortable.
Ramona: He sent us to another department! He was like, ‘This is actually a display bed, the real beds are over in furniture.’ He wasn’t like, ‘Get the hell out of there!’
It if had been two guys in the bed at the department store, my God, it would have been a completely different situation. A lot of things we did in season one would not have worked if we were men. We like to play with it a lot, what we can get away with on the basis of being girls.
Do you come clean with pranks?
Ramona: That’s one big difference. Another comparison we used to get was to Girls Behaving Badly. And one thing about them is that they almost always let the people in on the joke at the end.
Munchie: It’s easier to do pranks when you know you’re going to say, ‘haha, we’re filming a show’.
Ramona: It’s a little bit more aggressive to not let people know it was a joke.
Munchie: And we’re not hanging around long enough to tell them because we’re bouncing. We’re doing the stop, drop and roll the fuck out.
You’ve said you’re trying to break from the glossy representation of girls on TV. How do you feel about shows filled with rich and pretty girls?
Clementine:It gives girls something to identify falsely with.
Ramona:We’re trying to have an alternative with our body of work. What we look like isn’t as important as having a sense of humour and keeping things light.
Munchie: The pretty girls in high school are not representative of everyone.
Clementine: Our show isn’t about backstabbing and drama. It’s about bonding and unifying women.
If you weren’t doing this, what would you be doing?
Munchie: I’d probably be using my college degree. I have a psychology major from University of California, Santa Cruz, so I’d do something with that.
Clementine: I’m in love with wake surfing right now. I think I might go wake surf.
Ramona: I might try to be a dance yoga fitness wacko instructor. There’s a lot of competition in LA but I think I could do it. But hopefully we’ll get a good run of the Rad Girls bonkers, bananas, hijacks…
Clementine: A good run of Rad…
Munchie: There’s no job better than this. You get to be yourself and be cuckoo and hang out with your friends and get paid. I’m like, ‘Sweet. How long can we ride this train?’
Clementine: It’s an exercise for the alter ego.
Ramona: Yeah, we just came back from Squaw Valley in Tahoe to do this skiing and snowboarding event called ‘48-Hours Straight’ and one of the things we did was get these vintage ski bibs and ski pants and cut the butt cheeks out of them like assless chaps.
I probably wouldn’t just do that in real life but because we were filming and wanted material it was an awesome thing to do. And it was a huge hit.
Clementine: Every time we went through a crowd there would be a wake of laughter behind us. For us, it feels so good to make people laugh.
Ramona: Yeah, and we don’t care if people are laughing with us or at us or around us or behind us…
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Words: Tiffanie Wen
