Was 90210 in your head at all? That time period was the peak of that show, but it was such an unrealistic look at what it was like to be young. And, of course, we finished it with the thing that every network likes to hear: “And it’ll be cheap!” We would actually bring the MTV audience onto the channel by making a show using those people. We thought there was a potential there to tell stories that weren’t being told, and tell them in the voice of people that were experiencing them. We’re still sympathetic when you screw up. It’s a time in your life where we forgive you for those mistakes. You make a lot of mistakes in figuring that out. We started talking about when you leave home for the first time, it’s that magical moment where you’re able to define who you are. That’s how I lived when I moved to New York.” She really got it. Lauren Corrao looked at us and went, “Oh my God. Normally people don’t live with people different from themselves. The idea then was to take people with different backgrounds, different races, sexual orientations, every difference you can find, and we’ll stick them in a house together. In fact, we pitched Lauren Corrao, the MTV exec at the time, at the Mayflower Hotel restaurant in Central Park West. When the network decided it would cost too much to do a scripted drama, Mary-Ellis Bunim and I seized the moment and pitched them something unscripted. We had been developing with MTV a scripted drama about young people starting out their lives. Like a lot of things, it was a little bit hard work, a little bit luck, and a little bit good timing. What was the spark in your mind that inspired you to make that first season? I want to go back and talk about the original show. With The Real World coming up on that 30-year milestone, the network became an obvious home for The Real World Homecoming: New York, which premieres with the launch of Paramount+ on March 4th. But CBS All Access, which is rebranding as Paramount+, is built around nostalgic revivals like Star Trek: Picard, The Twilight Zone, and the upcoming Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years. He was right that the current MTV audience likely has little interest in seeing a bunch of middle-aged people move back into a New York City loft they called home nearly three decades ago. “I’m not sure the current audience on MTV is interested in seeing a reunion of those people.” “I don’t know doing it that way is best, and I’m not sure they’d be willing to do it,” he said at the time. Maybe put them all back into a loft for a week.” At the end, we ran an idea past him: “ back to that original cast in New York, it would be nice to see something with them again. Seven years ago, Rolling Stone interviewed Real World co-creator Jonathan Murray about the newest season of the groundbreaking MTV reality show.
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