Following is an excerpt from the DCBLOG Pulse diary from last week's Are You The One? Season 6 premiere, reposted in the interest of readers who don't want to scroll down, and has been updated to include new media including its trailer.
Earlier this year, ExtraTime went behind the scenes at a filming of an indie flick involving four generations of the MTV Trifecta: the movie first named Habit, then Blight, and now called Raving Lunatics by New England filmmaker Johnny Hickey. The film's premiere date has been pushed a bit and now slated to now drop during the ultimate time of celebrating all things scary: Halloween. In that film are two-time Challenge champ and Hickey's childhood friend CT, Kailah and Ammo's Real World Go Big or Go Home roommate Sabrina, RW Cancun and two-time Challenger Emilee, and Are You The One? original Brittany. Now, Brittany's fellow Season 1 castmate and one was also her roommate in SoCal is now entering the acting world himself.
Besides being a fan and webcast host for Game of Thrones and Teen Wolf (which concludes its MTV run tonight) and having just traveled up to Wyoming to witness the recent eclipse, he's best known for wearing an Aladdin outfit in what was the Originals' next to last Matchup before they won the $1 million. And earlier this year, we looked back at the time when he dusted off that outfit to go to the one place where it seems to be Halloween every day: the CBS daytime game show Let's Make A Deal.
We're bringing up Aladdin once again because of something that was just released in the past week, but sadly that famous outfit won't make its way to what he's doing next. But if you know of someone who loves to binge-watch -- even some of you perhaps, then it's likely that they do so on Netflix... and in addition to them offering more and more of the most unique original shows, offering an assortment of other shows from other networks and studios - and what began the service in the first place in offering movies, something that was recently released was an original Netflix film.
Last year, Ryan landed a supporting role in the movie #RealityHigh, which many media outlets are calling a modern-day, Instagram-influenced take on the classic 2004 teen comedy flick Mean Girls which turned Lindsey Lohan into a household name. In Reality High (its official title includes the hash symbol), the movie focuses on the mere reality of going to high school with someone with millions of social media followers. And considering those like Rachel Levin, Jake Paul and other social media influencers with a strong presence on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and other social platforms while they are in their teens, this brings this idea to when it comes to the hometown high school in your area.
The main characters of the film are of protagonist Dani Barnes, played by Nesta Cooper, and Alexa Medina, played by Alicia Sanz. The former in this case is in control in school and has very little support, and that leads her to gett a makeover to make herself more attractive to the social media crowd and Alexa's 9 million followers of Alexa. This, in turn, ignites a huge rivalry between the two where Dani finds herself in the battle for internet popularity and likes, which distracts her from volunteering and getting into college. This even involves Alex's ex, who also happens to be Keith Powers of Famous In Love fame, and whose character is a swimmer, student and finds himself in the middle of the war. This also leads to when a potential friendship Dani has with closest ally may falter when this is done, all as Dani tries to realize that maybe being truly yourself is likely better than asking someone else to alter her image for the sake of Insta-attention.
Ryan has a supporting role in the film, which brings into focus the ever-present dangers of bullying, social media and how being truly authentic one can be and being true to yourself to everyone is better than someone else to drastically alter their image, most especially taking place in the always intriguing battle for high school popularity. It also, in a way, reflects the times we are living in with a diverse cast and it taking into account interracial couples and gay couples as well.It also caught the attention of my fellow MTV fan Andrew Kirk (@CSUGradAKirk): "Saw @ryanmalaty was in a movie on @blacuesta ig story had to see this! #realityhigh great movie one of the actors @ryanmalaty made a cameo on one of my podcasts with @brittany_baldi two years back."
Reality High was released on Netflix more than a week ago, and if you're into social media and big time teenage drama, do check it out when you can.
- I AM DC
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