Asking Creative Questions to Break Up The Normal Interviews with Olivia Marks

DC: What's so incredibly unique about your style of interview is that you have such creative questions that you don't typically hear reporters ask or journalists ask. You get really deep into whatever the movie is, or the TV show, and kind of wrap it in a personal aspect as well. How do you come up with your creative questions?

OM: So before I do an interview for something, I'll always watch the film or the series beforehand. For me, it's just a case of watching that series or movie and trying to think of questions that are outside the box, but also what people would actually be interested in.

And also, junkets are really hard. They're having so many journalists interview them, just like a conveyor belt of journalists all day. So you want to keep it fresh and you want to kind of mix it up for them so the talent don't get bored. So it's just I don't know about bringing something new that will excite them and also excite fans and also, like me, I want to know the answers to these questions as a fan myself as well.

DC: Do you like the environment of the red carpet or do you like that personal room style of interview?

OM: For me, 100%, being sat down in a room with talent, that's where I feel like I'm most comfortable as well because you can really get to know someone. I know that a lot of the time, my interviews are only five minutes long, which is crazy to think that you have to almost force a relationship in such a small amount of time and get the best out of someone in that short amount of time. But red carpets, they're even worse. They're literally like one question.

Sometimes you might not even get a question in and you're standing there for a long time, you're behind a metal barrier. It's not the most comfortable of places. It's funny. Friends and family will always be so excited about red carpets and you're like, it's actually not glamorous at all. The reality is just so unglamorous. Yeah, I love doing junkets, which are more like sit-down interviews where you know your set time and you can prepare for it, whereas on a red carpet, you kind of don't really know how it's going to go.

Listen to more of Olivia Marks' story on the latest episode of?The Conversation Series Podcast.

Love, Dani