TheStarScoop.Com got the scoop from Allan Louis about his role on the hit CW show Privileged.
The Star Scoop:
Tell us about your role on Privileged and your character.
Allan Louis:
I play Marco Giordello. He's a chef. He's the personal chef to the Limoges family. He's been with them for about ten years, and he's watched the family sort of grow, if you will. He kind of served as a sage on the set where everybody comes through his kitchen like a bartender to get advice. He's a very educated gay man, partnered. He's been pretty much living his life for a good while. They all kind of look up to him.
The Star Scoop:
For people who aren't familiar with Privileged, how would you describe the show?
Allan Louis:
I would say if Gilmore Girls and Gossip Girl had a baby, it would be Privileged. It's a show that ties three generations of women together and allows them to freely speak about their experiences. I think when you watch the show, you get a sense of how women relate to each other from different age groups in regards to their relationships with men, with each other, and just their wants and desires and how to deal with failure and all that stuff. It packages it in this very light kind of packaging that's entertaining and it makes you laugh. You get to laugh at them and with them all at the same time. At the end of the day, none of these women are perfect, and I think that's the best part of the show?
The Star Scoop:
Have you been recognized more because of this recurring role?
Allan Louis:
Oh yeah. Two guys in a car stopped and just stopped traffic a little bit. They screamed out, We love you Allan. We love your character too, and we love the show! [laughs]. I was just coming out of church and I was talking to a friend of mine and we were talking about humility.
The Star Scoop:
Why have people taken to Privileged so much?
Allan Louis:
I think what Privileged has is just a really big beating heart. It's designed to entertain, clearly, but it's written in such a way...the amazing writers and staff crafted the show so that you can see that it pulses with feeling, with intention. It's designed to make you think a little bit about whatever situation you might be faced with as a viewer. Then it gives you just a little permission to laugh about it. I think in the climate that we're living in, entertainment needs to have that. It really does need to teach but not pound you over the head or be so completely frivolous that you sort of get nothing out of it at the end of the day. It came in right in the middle of all that. You end up feeling full after you watch it.
The Star Scoop:
For someone who hasn't seen the show, is Privileged. something they'll be able to start watching and find their way in?
Allan Louis:
I would say definitely. In this day and age, we live in a world of information. If you have an interest in anything, it really does behoove you to go and find out, what's this about. You can actually go back on CWTV.com and watch the back episodes and kind of follow where this character's going. It's a personal experience that people are having with the characters, so if you're coming in brand new, you kind of want to go back and see where this person's been. That's the nature of these shows that follow characters, unlike a CSI: Miami, where it's the murder of the week. I don't think it would be too hard to get into.
The Star Scoop:
What do you want to say to your fans?
Allan Louis:
Keep your eyes peeled, because I'm like a chameleon. I'm always changing. For those out there, that are following, stay in touch and stay close because what I've always wanted to do as an artist is just bring a kind of a truth and a heart to the work that I do. Fortunately or unfortunately, I kind of have a way of transforming myself with each role. I'm doing "Baby It's You" and that's coming up in the summer. It's a rock and roll musical set in 1962. It's a real good time.
The Star Scoop:
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