Alexandra Jarvis and Alexandra Rose are looking back at their first season of Selling the OC.
In a new interview with ET, the pair discussed their reality TV debut and opened up about the audience’s reaction to the season.
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“I have been surprised at how discerning people are and how they are watching behaviors and, really, they’re really put off by the bullying, which is so pleasant to see, ’cause you know we weren’t sure,” Jarvis told the outlet, noting that fans had been incredibly supportive on social media.
Shortly after the show’s release, fans began making “Show Villain vs. Actual Villain” memes on Twitter, with Jarvis and Rose being labelled the former while co-star Alex Hall was called the latter.
“In real life, she is just a bully,” Rose said of Hall. “She’s actually a leader amongst her peers, people love her and they love her energy and I think people follow her ’cause she gives off that energy of being a leader — which is a great characteristic to have — but she’s using it the wrong way by bullying everybody and influencing everyone that is following her to bully. So, as you see in the show, everybody goes along with what she said, with what she did, follows her around, but she does it in such a bad way and it’s made her look like a terrible person.”
“I think people seeing right through some of the B.S. and them seeing that she is actually the villain, like that’s just how she is,” Jarvis added. “She’s a bully.”
Hall defended her behavior in a separate interview with ET, explaining that she had been told by production that the two had not been cast in the ensemble.
“Bottom line is, it doesn’t matter who was casted first and who wasn’t,” Rose said in response. “The fact that she treated us with such disrespect goes to show her true character and shows how much of a bully she is. You should never, ever, ever, ever treat someone like chopped liver [and] shun them because they aren’t casted, or they didn’t get the part. It’s just flat out being a bully and I hope [that] interview backlashes on her and everybody is going to see the kind of person she is.”
“She doesn’t get to decide who gets a seat at the table, you know?” Jarvis continued, adding that Hall had likely realized they were cast at some point during filming. “It’s just a shame. I mean, I am glad that she made those comments because it really shows how much she just did not want us there. She did not want us involved.”
They also hit back at Hall‘s allegations that they listened to other agents’ phone calls in order to steal listings.
“Lies, lies and more lies,” Jarvis said, while Rose added: “She is just pulling stuff out of her you-know-what.”
“That is Alex Hall being Alex Hall,” Jarvis shared. “Her trying to discredit the work that Rose and I have put into our business by trying to act as though we need to steal something? We do not. We work off of a list. We’ve actually we’ve created– we have a lot of systems we have put together … [that] other people in the office are actually using.”
“It’s just a shame that she feels the need to continue to lie and just dig a deeper hole for herself,” she noted.
The two went on to say that Hall‘s behavior wasn’t that surprising given the behavior of the other agents they worked with at the Oppenheim Group.
“It’s like they had their own little clique and nobody else was welcome to be around them or hang out with them, so it was not a surprise to hear them say such nasty, vitriolic things about us,” Jarvis explained. “It’s not surprising. It’s shameful.”
She continued, “I can tell like a lot of the female castmates viewed me as competition right when they met me. They were not at all wanting to partner up, or hang out or anything like that.”
“Whenever we would have team meetings in the office, they would all be in their little clique and they would talk so loudly that Alexandra Jarvis and I could not get a word in, and if we did say something, they made nasty, negative comments,” Rose said. “Their remarks were rude, like anything that we say or do is offensive. I swear to God, it’s like anything that comes out of our mouth is, like, the worst thing that’s ever said in the history of being said.”
“Very junior high,” Jarvis added. “I mean like, laughing, mocking at us. … I think our favorite scenes were scenes with just her and I, or with our clients viewing houses. Any time we were with the rest of the group, we just kind of expected some level of mistreatment.”
As for what they learned from their first season, Jarvis said: “Kindness and class always prevail.”
Selling the OC is streaming on Netflix now.
In a recent interview, Alex Hall said that she had no regrets about flirting with Brittany Snow‘s husband Tyler Stanaland on the show.
Source: justjared.com