‘It’s very odd!’ Laura Linney blasts reality TV as a ‘bizarre pastime’ while reflecting on ‘The Truman Show’
Laura Linney has branded reality TV “very odd” and a “bizarre pastime”. The Oscar-nominee, 59, who played the wife of Jim Carrey’s character in 1998’s television satire ‘The Truman Show’, added people now aren’t “self-conscious” about being on camera. She told Parade magazine: “Reality television is now a huge, huge, huge thing and there is something very odd about it. “The difference, of course, (between it and ‘The Truman Show’) is that people aren’t self-conscious about being on camera. “Truman didn’t know the camera was on him. It was almost like Candid Camera, so you were seeing real beha...