Alex Cooper, the star of the hit podcast Name Her Daddy, is a golf widow on weekends, however she’s making it work as she expands her empire into tv.
“I’m obsessive about actuality TV. My poor husband. Properly, truly not my poor husband, Matt, you’re fantastic. He golfs each Sunday, and I’ve 19 hours to binge [TV]. Clearly, there’s nothing higher than sitting down and binging The Bachelor or no matter present you’re about to observe. I’ve been obsessive about actuality TV all the best way again to Laguna Seaside, like, bitch, I’ve been there in that shit, and I liked it, and I’m now excited to have the ability to produce one thing myself,” she mentioned.
Cooper was talking with Rob Mills, EVP, Unscripted and Various Leisure, Walt Disney Tv, at Hulu’s Get Actual occasion, which introduced collectively all of its actuality expertise.
This comes a month after Deadline revealed that the streamer had greenlit her first dive into actuality tv. Overboard for Love, which she is exec producing via her Unwell Productions banner, is a courting present set on a ship. With a twist, clearly.
“I’m by no means going to stray away from the principle factor, which is Name Her Daddy. I really feel like I’ve such a deal with on how I run my enterprise, however the actuality is, I went to movie and tv college. I’ve at all times wished to provide or direct, in order that’s at all times been one thing that’s been a calling to me, and I believe unscripted additionally has been one thing I’ve been captivated with. So, it made sense to get into that class. On prime of that, I do know my viewers loves it, I do know that the daddy gang is binging each present. I wish to problem myself, and I wish to enterprise into new departments. With my firm, all of us had a giant sit down second of what scripted and unscripted are we going to look to go after this 12 months and unscripted was the main runner. We’ve acquired to offer it to the daddy gang, and it’s acquired to be a courting present,” she added.
Mills famous that typically huge stars pitch networks as exec producers however are solely ever concerned in a small approach, serving to to advertise a present by sticking their title on it. Not so, for Cooper, he provides.
“I’m like, inform us every time we’re being an excessive amount of. We’re materials [for the show], we’re getting so particular with the wall colours and each element. Unwell, the corporate I’ve constructed with my husband is a really, very particular model, you are feeling it, you’ll be able to see it, you’ll be able to virtually style it. With Overboard for Love, clearly I’m not going to stray so far-off from the real nature of actuality reveals that we love, however there’s going to be a whole lot of twists that I believe are going to raise this present. Additionally, scorching folks on a yacht in the summertime? Are you fucking kidding me? I can be going to the boat this summer time. I can be going and seeing everybody filming. I’ve been so concerned, I used to be watching casting movies and these individuals are so f*cking entertaining, I can’t dwindle it down. I’m concerned in the entire manufacturing, I’m concerned within the design, I’m concerned within the twists and the turns and all of it. It’s been a extremely enjoyable time, and I’m simply getting began,” she added.
For the uninitiated, Cooper and Sofia Franklyn began Name Her Daddy in 2018 with Barstool Sports activities. In June 2021, Cooper went solo and signed a large cope with Spotify, considered price round $60M. She moved the podcast away from being as sex-orientated because it was at first and began interviewing the likes of Vice President Kamala Harris, Monica Lewinsky, Amanda Knox and Jane Fonda in addition to the youthful stars you’d count on her to.
“At first… I used to be saying a number of the craziest shit folks have ever heard. My dad nonetheless to at the present time, is like, keep away from episode three, as a result of it was about blow jobs. It was conversations that lots of people have been having behind the scenes and I believe that’s what actuality reveals do. They carry to gentle issues which can be occurring in your properties, or they’re occurring in actual courting, however you don’t [regularly] get to see it on display screen and I believe Hulu is doing an excellent job bringing that to gentle.”
Final 12 months, Cooper signed a fair greater cope with SiriusXM, which is considered price double her earlier association.
She’s additionally landed her first scripted collection; she’s going to exec produce Lifeless Letters, a thriller drama starring Fairly Little Liars’ Lucy Hale, who’s courting Harry Jowsey, who has his personal podcast Boyfriend Materials at Cooper’s Unwell, that’s within the works at Netflix.
“From day one as a creator, one thing that I’ve at all times needed to push up in opposition to is I’m very outspoken, and I need my content material to be the best way that I need it to be. I completely know typically it’s not for everybody,” she mentioned.
We’ll learn the way many individuals it’s for over the subsequent twelve months.
