“We each caught on very early that The Easy Life had a formulation,” Richie says over scorching tea and toast with butter and jam. “They’d drop us off at our jobs, they would depart, we might mess it up, they’d get mad, we might chortle, we had been in skirts.” (It’s true—rewatching a number of key episodes forward of our interview, I used to be struck by how incessantly each ladies tried farm work in tiny pleated skirts and brief shorts.) “The producers had been like, ‘We don’t really need you to put on denims, we wish you to put on attire.’ It was leisure. Each Paris and I are from LA. We perceive.”
Hilton, too, has talked overtly about leaning into the vapid baby-voiced stereotype we devoured, and—in what is perhaps one of many longest performances in showbiz historical past—can nonetheless preserve it going if that’s what the scenario requires.
“For me, it’s positively a personality,” she says between bites of the aforementioned McCarthy salad (no bacon, gentle on the cheese, each Thousand Island and ranch). “When Nicole and I acquired approached to do The Easy Life, they described it as Inexperienced Acres meets Clueless, so I knew what the viewers needed—that blonde-airhead kind of character. So I actually performed into that with questions like, ‘What’s Walmart?’ I all the time knew what I used to be doing as a result of I’m not a dumb blonde. I’m simply superb at pretending to be one.”
Which brings us to the current, and the mission we’re gathered right here at present to debate. Regardless of what deceptive headlines would have you ever imagine, the 2 aren’t pairing up for a Easy Life reboot to re-wreak havoc in Podunk cities throughout America.
As a substitute it’s a three-part reunion present that pays heartfelt homage to the folks concerned within the authentic collection but additionally—as a result of it’s Paris and Nicole—has a little bit of an surprising madcap ingredient.
“What now we have determined to do for the reunion is to make our tune, ‘Sanasa,’ into an opera,” says Richie. An opera?
“We simply needed to do one thing totally different than all the opposite reunions,” Hilton says. “The Easy Life was so revolutionary and so new to the world. It’s such a particular present to rejoice, and we simply needed to do it in essentially the most additional and indulgent manner. And it’s humorous as a result of we’re going to be fish out of water on this as effectively, as a result of us being within the opera world is…,” she trails off.
(For the uninitiated, “Sanasa” is a tune the ladies wrote as children; it grew to become one thing of a viral inside joke throughout The Easy Life.)
“Collectively we got here up with this wonderful therapy, after which we had pitch conferences with all the massive networks,” Hilton says. “All people needed it. Bidding struggle.”
The ladies determined to go along with Peacock, and the reunion will air December 12—virtually 21 years to the day that The Easy Life premiered. Nonetheless, Hilton and Richie, each 43, are wives and moms, and have a number of profitable enterprise ventures. (Nicole is a working actor and has been operating Home of Harlow 1960, her style label since 2008. Paris has a profession as a singer and DJ, is deep into her advocacy work that protects youth in opposition to the inappropriate use of restraints and isolation in therapy services, and is about to launch her thirtieth perfume). They’re additionally very, very well-known. Why even do that? As they infer, the mission is a testomony to their friendship, and in addition a love letter of kinds to the folks they met alongside the best way.