It was, in a word,bad.In the best possible way.

and I decided it wasn’t really an ethical issue.

It was a creative issue and that made me feel better about the decision."

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And, well, maybe for other reasons.

“I really thought it was going to win me a hundred thousand dollars, their big jackpot prize.

It was as good as you think it is because they were really stunned.

They were having trouble…

It was very paralyzing they were all like ‘Huh?’

because it was an alternate reality to what they had been living in.

They had been living in something that was completely untrue, just like their characters.”

As she sums up: “I wanted to see everyone’s unique ability to digest this betrayal.”

and see them play back in their heads everything we had shot and go, ‘Oh my goodness.

It is possible.’

I think it really disturbed them for a minute.

It wasn’t howling with laughter, I think they felt somewhat similar to the characters, slightly betrayed.

[Laughs] They would look at me slightly differently from then on."

In truth, the cast was forgiving after the deception.

“It was good not to know until the very end,“Harper told EW earlier this summer.

“It’s just part of the character to not know.

Who knows what I would have done?”

ET with an hourlong premiere.

Because we’re already here.

while Harper lets loose with an “Ohhh!!!”

and Jacinto, well, he really seems to have his mind melted.