Dani Barker x Follow Her

June 7, 2023·58 min·1 clip

Luke Cook (host of The Zaddy Zone) interviews actress and writer Dani Barker about their film 'Follow Her,' now available on VOD. They discuss Dani's pioneering hidden-camera YouTube series 'Starvival' — where she filmed strangers she met via Craigslist (tickling, face-standing, audio domination fetish jobs) — which inspired the film's themes of social media ethics, consent, and the repercussions of chasing online fame. They also cover the unorthodox shoot (first scene was a sexual scene on day one), their tense on-set dynamic, the film's layers of moral ambiguity, and how TBS shelved a full season of Starvival after a two-million-dollar production.

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A blunt look at how a TV project gets tangled in rights, buybacks, and cancellation.

This episode looks at a TV project that gets caught in network limbo, rights buybacks, a hiatus, and then cancellation. The practical problem is the part that sticks: when a network lets a show go, someone still has to buy the rights back, and the two-million-dollar figure here…

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You want Dani Barker unpacking how Follow Her slid from TV into web-series limbo.

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