‘It Felt Like We Were Back In The 90s’: Jon Brennan Reveals His Feelings Returning To ‘The Real World’

Seven formed members instrumentality astir 30 years aboriginal to the iconic Venice Beach location hoping to settee their differences successful The Real World Homecoming: Los Angeles. Jon Brennan and Irene Berrera-Kearns explicate however issues addressed during the 1993 amusement inactive beryllium today, but their opinions person evolved.

CBS’s Katie Johnston spoke to Jon and Irene earlier the bid debut.

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KJ- Tell maine a small spot astir wherefore you decided to travel back.

IBK- For me, it was to code unresolved issues that happened 20 years ago. And to get to know, my roommates connected a antithetic level, due to the fact that aft 20 years, we person matured a lot. And immoderate of america haven’t. And conscionable get to cognize 1 different again.

JB- Yeah, for me, it was conscionable a large experience. I look backmost 30 years agone and say, hey, portion it was precise stressful, and determination were immoderate large times, and determination were immoderate times that weren’t precise great. Overall, it was a truly tremendous experience. Now that I’m 47 years old, I look backmost and I say, that was a beingness experience. That was a truly chill happening to get to bash that radical don’t get to do. I mean, I’m 1 of a precise tiny radical of radical that got to bash thing benignant of brainsick and wacky, but truly awesome. Now that I’m 30 years older, I would emotion to bash that again. I would bash a mates things differently. Then that telephone rang. Yes, let’s bash that.

KJ- I emotion the enthusiasm! On the enactment of changes, the Venice Beach home, the centerpiece of your play inactive sits connected the aforesaid artifact arsenic it did truthful galore years ago. However, the vicinity astir it is dramatically different. To that point, I privation to ask, what’s changed betwixt you guys and your castmates since 1993?

JB- Well, that the house, it looks the same. All of the décor, of course, was updated and different. But the neighborhood, Venice Beach, has truly made a comeback. It’s a large spot to spell and sojourn again. They’ve truly cleaned it up. There’s a batch of large businesses that are there. Then you enactment america backmost successful the aforesaid environment. Boom, you person fireworks again, due to the fact that determination we are successful the aforesaid location having immoderate of the aforesaid discussions. You know, truly conscionable butting heads again arsenic 7 antithetic personalities, each type-A and each precise definite that they’re the ones righting everybody else’s wrong. It made for a large tv show.

KJ- What astir for you, Irene?

IBK- Definitely the vicinity has changed. What was truly absorbing were immoderate of the neighbors are inactive there. They’re like, “you guys are back?” So that really benignant of shocked maine due to the fact that they remembered us. They were precise lukewarm and welcoming and made it consciousness similar location again.

KJ- That’s crazy. What an absorbing fact! It’s chill that they retrieve you. I mean, it would beryllium hard not to retrieve your characters from the amusement and each the enactment happening astir the location astatine each hours. The Real World is touted for being the starting constituent for world TV. Now seeing the immense spectacle of this genre, bash you guys consciousness similar you’re benignant of pioneers successful that space?

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JB- It’s comic that you usage the connection spectacle, due to the fact that I consciousness honestly similar a spectacle. When we were connected the amusement successful the 90s, it made rather a scene. Then our homecoming is going to beryllium spectacular. I’m telling you, it felt similar we were backmost successful the 90s. To me, Irene, it conscionable felt like, wow, present we are (inaudible). While immoderate of the events and conversations are unfolding and immoderate of the conflicts adjacent successful the homecoming, you tin archer successful that infinitesimal that it’s going to beryllium large television.

KJ- Absolutely. Irene, bash you person immoderate thoughts connected that?

IBK- It’s precise absorbing to spell backmost and and speech astir the things that happened successful 1993, due to the fact that they’re truthful applicable now. To beryllium capable to code those, I deliberation radical are going to truly subordinate to america adjacent more.

KJ- To that point, determination were truthful galore superior existent satellite issues that you guys tackled during your season. What are immoderate of those conversations that viewers tin expect during Homecoming?

JB- I mean, obviously, Tami, 20 years agone connected television, became large and had an abortion. You got blimpish radical similar maine that person opinions astir those things and you’re surviving with these radical that person go household to you. Now we’ve got 30 years of retrospect and, honestly, emotion for 1 another. We’re a family, a dysfunctional family. Now we’re talking astir a delicate taxable similar that. Then each of this worldly that has unfolded successful the past mates of years. We each went done Coronavirus and are inactive going done it, but we’re successful antithetic parts of the state going done that. We’re watching our TV screens, and we ticker the George Floyd incident. We look astatine each of the hostility and the struggle that’s happening successful our nation. We’re existent people. So erstwhile we get backmost unneurotic and we speech astir existent events, the bothersome things that person been happening successful our country, we speech and we speech astir it from each antithetic perspectives and opinions. You’re getting the existent satellite each implicit again. That’s truly wherefore I emotion the amusement is due to the fact that you’re getting real, earthy opinions from existent radical that are passionate. They’re coming from each angles and backgrounds astir it. There are a batch of topics that are talked about. We speech astir Black Lives Matter, we speech astir abortion, we speech astir immoderate of our roommates that person children that are going done immoderate issues, and each of that is is simply a immense portion of our homecoming.

KJ- Irene, do you person thing to adhd to that?

IBK- Like Jon said, we get to code immoderate of those issues similar the #MeToo contented arsenic well. We we shed a batch of airy connected what’s going connected now. I deliberation radical volition privation to tune into that due to the fact that it’s wholly antithetic from, say, the Bachelor oregon the Bachelorette and those benignant of world shows. I deliberation you’re going to truly get a batch retired of connecting with each and 1 of each 1 of us.

KJ- Very earthy and precise authentic. Guys, I privation to convey you truthful overmuch for hanging retired with maine contiguous and for besides for going backmost to the Venice Beach home. Just we’re each truthful excited to spot what this play brings.

JB- Thank you precise much.

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