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In grant of the Blockbuster premiere, Netflix stars Randall Park and Melissa Fumero are sharing conscionable however true-to-life the series' acceptable was—down to this past detail.
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Blockbuster is rewinding the tape.
The Netflix sitcom, which premiered Nov. 3, follows the manager and unit of the past Blockbuster Video store successful the satellite arsenic they grapple with their spot successful a high-tech society. And, according to stars Melissa Fumero and Randall Park, being connected acceptable felt like stepping into a relic of the past—quite literally.
"The carpet was conscionable the close magnitude of gross," Fumero exclusively joked to E! News. Meanwhile, Park quipped that even "signage was askew conscionable the close amount."
All of these period-accurate details—including those featuring the iconic video rental catchphrase "Be Kind. Rewind."—weren't conscionable for fun. Fumero and Park noted that they created an immersive acquisition for everyone that walked into the fake store.
"It was conscionable precise amusive for maine to ticker the faces of everyone that walked connected who were like, 'Oh, wow,'" Fumero said. "They were instantly taken back."
Park added that the acquisition was "trippy," saying that "stepping onto that acceptable for the archetypal clip felt similar walking into my vicinity Blockbuster."
But not everyone could relive those aforesaid nostalgic experiences. Kamaia Fairburn, who plays the teenage girl of the store's landlord (J.B. Smoove), is a bit too young to retrieve the days of video rentals, so Park and Fumero tried their champion to explicate the feeling of walking into a Blockbuster to her.
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"This was a thing!" Fumero recalled telling her. "This started the weekend—going and picking retired your movies with your household for the weekend. It's truthful hard to truly explicate what it was about—like what made it fun, 'cause I deliberation that's the portion they get tripped up on. How was going to a store and picking retired a movie fun?"
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