Anna Peele

You know, they want people who are like not typical Islanders always.

Like I would say Taylor last season is not like a typical Islander.

He's still in vet school.

He's like, you know, he definitely has a regional accent.

But, yeah, they talk to them about, like, what their dating history is.

They ask who they're attracted to.

They ask, like, who from the previous casts they're attracted to.

Everyone says Miguel.

All the women.

He's so gorgeous.

But, yeah, then they also look at who they've actually dated because a lot of times people will say, like, oh, I'm open to dating anybody.

And, like, historically that has not gone well, like, because people, you know, have –

like biases that maybe they're not even aware of and so like in early seasons of uk islanders of color and black islanders were not being picked in the original lineup and so they have to see like okay like have you actually dated people like of other races um so they do all that and they kind of go up through layers so it's like casting team then it's the producers then it's the executives and all the while they're on this board and then they're going through all these checks and

They're going through this like psychological evaluation.

There's like a 500 question test.

And then there's a verbal section.

Obviously, you're getting STD medical tests.

There's a background check.

That doesn't always catch, you know, like if you said something in a story or if there's something on a private account or maybe if you said something on a podcast, like

So that makes me wonder, should they try and get casting done a little bit earlier so they can put that out there and then kind of let the audience finish the vetting for them?