A
few weeks back, our cheeks turned rosy with shock over the “Tub
Talk with Sara B.” scandal, involving Nerve's own Sara B. and actor Craig Bierko. This week New York mag interviewed Bierko about John Malkovich, Sara B., and the
(coughstolencough) ideas behind his new video series:
“So this woman on
Nerve.com, Sara Benincasa, who has long interviewed
people in their tubs on a thing called "Tub Talk," is claiming
you stole her idea. True?
I don't really have a response to that. My idea behind this whole thing was, I
wanted to take the false intimacy of a talk show, of two guys wearing makeup,
and turn the intimacy up as much as I could. I thought of people sitting in the
bathtub yammering at each other, and I could see how other people could have
come up…I’d never seen her show before.
She suggests you
could set things aright by having her on your tub show. Will you?
Probably not. Not to insult her, but we've set the bar pretty high with John
[Malkovich].”
Ooh, SNAP! “I don't really
have a response to that"? Does that mean “yes”? Does that mean “no”? Or does it
mean what Sara B. thinks
it means?
Call her Bierko! She’ll rock your world. Or at least scrub your
back…
