Each episode of the web series Local Attraction depicts the first dates of couples who met on Tinder. Maggie Lange talks to series creator Connor Hines about the project:
Local Attraction seems to take the female side of the story — the men so far have been crazy obnoxious.
Well, I have three sisters, so there’s a lot of material there. The original intention behind these episodes was for my portfolio as an actor, since I wasn’t really anticipating anybody watching it; I thought I wanted to have as much fun as possible, so I want to make the characters big and outrageous. Now that we have a bit of a following, I’m going to feature the actresses more. For the fourth episode, we’ll have the actress as the perpetrator of the discomfort on the date. …
Are there any characters that you really want to play or have written into the script?
I was out at a bar in New York City — Brass Monkey — and this guy comes up to me in these ridiculous designer sunglasses with a ton of hair product and this ridiculous sweater on. He asked me for a cigarette and I said no. We started talking and the things that came out of his mouth were just so outrageous and so entertaining, I ended up trying to talk to him for 20 minutes and within that conversation, I had pretty much written an entire episode in my head. Wherever he is, I’m eternally grateful to that particular gentleman for episode three.
He was asking me about certain places that I’ve never attended — what’s hot, what’s not, and where can he and his boys go, and what’s a good place for this, and where do we find this kind of woman. And it was nighttime and he was still wearing his sunglasses, which made it all exponentially better.
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