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What did you know at the beginning of filming in this experimental style?
KRISTA: "It's like a home movie" — that's what I kept getting. We just knew that we were going to do this thing about actors. That's really all I knew.
JENNIFER: We were calling each other and saying, "What are you going to do? What's this going to be like?" We didn't know. We really didn't understand how the show worked.
BRYAN: I don't think the producers knew how the show worked at that point. Nobody's ever done anything like this before. I mean, it's totally raw and they didn't even know what they were doing at first, so they couldn't really tell us. I mean, they'd just shoot and say "We'll figure it out in editing."
What was it like, playing yourself and improvising your lines?
BRYAN: I was scared as hell. But, for the first time in my life as an actor I've actually had some say in what happens, which is very rare. I'm not getting used to it because I know after this show it won't happen again. My biggest fear is that people are going to think it's a reality show.
KRISTA: Well, you're scared after you do a take, because you don't know if you did a good job. We would all get kind of frustrated at the beginning because it was too close to home.
FRANK: I think every part you play is a piece of you anyway. The thing about this is it isn't really us, but it is. You're drawing on your own experience. Everything I say to the students in class is what I really feel about acting. Everything is the truth.
How do you approach Unscripted as an actor?
BRYAN: George said to me, "The second I see you act, it's over. I don't want to see you act." This isn't improv in the sense that you have to be funny. You have to try and make something happen. You just have to be and react. Sometimes the best that you can do is say nothing. That's so much more interesting.
KRISTA: It's a very hard acting gig, what we do. They don't want to see us act, but that's what we're doing. It's tough.
FRANK: It's actually one of the greatest jobs I've ever had for this reason. [Usually] at night you sit with your script and you have to learn your lines and you're limited by whatever the script is. And this show, we get there. George [Clooney] whispers something. There's one take and you're out. It's a great, great gig.
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