On the trail for laughs (and Wi-Fi) with the millennial stars of The Great Indoors Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Shaun Brown and Christine Ko
THE MILLENNIALS OF THE GREAT INDOORS are searching for cell service. Dressed in formal attire, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Shaun Brown and Christine Ko are perched atop a dusty mountain in Topanga Canyon, seemingly at ease with the weather (it’s boiling) and the old-school technology they’re playing with for the shoot, currently whispering to each other through tin cans on string. When lunch is called, however, they scurry to the air-conditioned trailer where they can connect their phones to the Wi-Fi. “I’m all the millennial stereotypes,” Brown admits.
The Great Indoors takes advantage of said stereotypes, centering on Joel McHale (Community, The Soup) as Jack, a modern-day frontiersman and lead reporter for Outdoor Limits magazine, who finds himself constantly clashing with the social-media-savvy millennials who work for him: Clark, played by Mintz-Plasse (Superbad, How to Train Your Dragon); Ko (Ballers, Relationship Status) as Emma; and Brown (True Blood, The Newsroom) as Mason. The series focuses on the divide between that millennial threesome and the “older” generation (McHale, Stephen Fry), who long for the pre-internet days when people camped instead of glamped and read actual magazines rather than that publication’s Instagram captions.
It appears that life imitates art, as all three millennials cop to preferring “camping” on their Studio City set, rather than in actual nature. Over gluten-free marble cake, the decidedly indoorsy co-stars opened up about their friendship, phone addictions and the myriad ways the next generation is already making them feel old.
So what’s the vibe like on set? And what makes it different from other shows you’ve worked on in the past?
This story is from the February 2017 edition of CBS Watch! Magazine.
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