The world of celebrity interviews can tend to be very mundane, but every once in a while, someone comes through with a brand new idea and changes people’s minds on what is possible. I find that celebrity interviews have become so repetitive, and I hardly have any interest in them anymore because they’re always taken so seriously, and it bores me to death. More recently, new people have been emerging in the field, and I think they’ve discovered a new, fun side to it. One of the people who has paved the way to this more light-hearted style of interviewing is Britanny Broski with her celebrity talk show, Royal Court.
What started out as a small, humble set with few props has quickly blown up into something much more. As the name suggests, this show pretends to be set in medieval times, where the celebrity is aiming to gain a spot on Broski’s royal court. This aspect alone is something that drew me in when the show first began, because it’s a unique approach, and it’s just so absurdly silly. Celebrities are often placed on a pedestal solely because they’re famous and wealthy, and this results in them being treated so seriously. This is why I enjoy Broski’s approach so much, because she really just treats them like the average person.
To gain a spot on Broski’s royal court, each celebrity has to pass a series of trials. The first of these trials is multiple back-to-back questions that tend to take a deep dive into a niche aspect of the celebrity’s life. She tries to keep these questions mainly light-hearted, while still exploring the careers and personal lives of whoever she’s interviewing. The second trial is a “royal tribute” where Broski typically asks a second round of questions and serves the celeb an odd food combination that she somehow discovered they enjoy, but it has more recently become a segment where Broski is given a gift by the star of the episode. For the third and final trial, the celebrity has to create their own family crest while being asked one last round of questions. This trial is my favourite because I find it pretty amusing to watch people, who many people worship because of their fame, draw really terrible drawings with Crayola markers, because it kind of humanises them and makes them feel more relatable.
The list of stars that Broski has interviewed ranges from David Corenswet and Kyle McLachlan to Charli XCX and Fortune Feimster. But the very first celebrity to be considered for Broski’s royal court was Orville Peck around two years ago. Even from this very first interview, she’s had a way of seeming like she’s been friends with the interviewee for years. I think this is what makes her show so special because it usually leads to the celebrity being more open and authentic than they’ve ever been in past interviews. Of all of the episodes she’s produced so far, one of my favourites has got to be the one with Cole Sprouse because he really is just a normal dude. He was so funny and was a great sport when Broski handed him a copy of the fanfiction she wrote about him back in her Tumblr days (which is genuinely insane behavior).
Since the very beginning of the show, I have constantly been looking forward to when the next episode of Royal Court comes out. It makes me really happy to see fun approaches to things that are taken more seriously than they need to be, especially in this day and age. If you’ve never seen an episode of Royal Court, I highly recommend watching one with a celebrity you enjoy because it gives you a new look into who they really are and takes away that odd barrier between them and the average person you see around you.
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