When fashion and television intertwine, you get a show called “Making the Cut.”
Soon the series will soon be back on our screens for a second season.
As the competitive series continues, this season features episodes unlike any we’ve seen before.
What’s the best part about working with each other?
Tim:Well, I’m going to jump in.
On the other show [“Project Runway”], Heidi and I barely interacted.
We had such separate and discrete roles.
Heidi:It is great to be able to work with someone that knows you very well.
Sometimes, I don’t know, we would come to set.
Maybe I’m a little tired.
I can’t remember anything, my lines that I have to say.
So we have to communicate that to them perfectly.
So he’ll know when I’m like, “I can’t get it out today.”
Then Tim is like, “I’ll do it.”
Or sometimes that happens the other way around.
Heidi:Where it’s like, “I have a brain fart today.
It just doesn’t want to come out.”
It’s just beautiful when, you know, we have each other’s backs.
We can have fun.
We can laugh at each other, with each other.
It’s beautiful when you get to go to work, and it doesn’t feel like work.
Tim:I agree.
I think that’s why it’s so fun.
We’re having fun together.
We get to see beautiful art come down the runway.
We have 10 people who are bright-eyed, sparkly.
They’re so excited to be there.
So it all in all feels good.
Tim:We’re very lucky.
Have there been any behind-the-scenes moments we’ve missed on Making the Cut?
Heidi:I mean, we we do a very long deliberation.
If you guys would see that, you probably would be bored.
Nah, nah, nah.
So sometimes, it just drags out really long.
Tim:Yeah, I have to say, Kelsie, that the editing is brilliant.
And speaking for myself, I couldn’t do it.
[Laughs]
Why not?
Tim:I love my role, and I have such enormous respect for Heidi and her fellow judges.
I wouldn’t want to do it for anything.
I love, love the position that I have.
Heidi:It’s hard sometimes when you do it, because it’s hard to crush someone.
And then you see either the tears or how they’re crushed.
It’s, like, not nice sometimes, having to be the messenger, you know?
And it’s not just only my opinion why you’re not going.
Because I want everyone to walk away feeling good, but some people have to go along the way.
Otherwise, we won’t have a winner.
So, we’re always trying to find the weakest link, and unfortunately, they have to go.
It doesn’t mean that they’re not good.
So, to tell them that, it’s never so nice.
It helps enormously, because I can then anticipate what will potentially happen on that runway.
How was shooting Season 2 different from Season 1?
Because, obviously, we were in a pandemic.
Tim:Well, no one got on a plane.
[Laughs]
Heidi:Except you!
Tim:Well, that’s true.
It was a challenge, but it’s a fabulous season.
It really works beautifully, but we were very I’ll say, we were almost paranoid.
We were so careful.
We were extremely responsible and diligent.
There were 100 people on set.
No one got sick, so we were doing something right.
And that’s what fashion is all about.
Tim:Have you seen this season, Kelsie?
I have, and they’re amazing all of the sets for each show!
Tim:It’s hard to believe that each is no further than 100 yards from the other.
It’s hard to believe.
Yeah, it looks like we did travel.
And that would have been our challenge, to really bring the magic, just in that little space.
Because we didn’t want to let anyone down, and especially, not the designers.
They were waiting for their moment.
This is their moment.
This is their opportunity, and in life, you don’t always get so many.
Now, you’re on “Making the Cut.”
What’s a favorite memory that you have from working on the shows one that stands out?
Heidi:Sometimes I feel like our nervousness being backstage, coming out in front of a large audience.
I don’t know.
I mean, those are amazing.
You mean, with Tim and I?
We started this together.
We started showing how fashion is made on television.
You had not seen this before.
So, we were always proud of this, but we were also nervous.
I had not really been on TV.
Tim was not really so much on TV.
So we were in the beginning, winging all of this.
I didn’t learn to host anything or do these types of things and speak in public like that.
And this kind of bonds you in a different way.
Here we are!"
And, “How can we make it better?”
It’s just like a long journey that we have together.
Designers are leaving in the middle of the night.
We’re like, “What are we going to do now?”
I mean, we’ve had so many.
Tim:[Laughs]
Heidi:And I say that a lot of the times to myself.
Even when Tim is not there, I’m like, “What would Tim say?
‘Make it work.'”
Because if you’re not, someone else is going to make it work.
you could’t possibly, possibly erase.
And it’s a very touching and moving moment.
Heidi:And not everyone always also lets their guard down, you know?
Because a lot of the times, I also think for protection, people play a part also.
But, like, we let our guard down.
Heidi:You know, what our abilities are, and what our fears are.
And so, yeah.
Season 2 of “Making the Cut” premieres Friday, July 16 exclusively on Prime Video.
