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The Hills Are Alive

As MTV’s hit show readies for its comeback, cast members reminisce about growing up, getting famous, and altering reality long before social media came on the scene.

Director: Gillian Laub
DP: Arlene Muller
B Cam: Adam X
1st AC: Alex Fauver
Gaffer: Hitoshi Tomonori
Sound: Kara Johnson
Color: Company 3
Close-up portraits of Heidi and Spencer Pratt, Photography by Martin Schoeller

Released on 03/05/2019

Transcript

Sorry, will someone put Rainbow up 'cause he's gonna cry

the whole time if not, he can't get up on his own.

[light music]

[clinking]

[Female] Oh god, break things.

Who didn't watch The Hills?

I mean, it was a big deal, it was before the Kardashians,

before everything, it made reality television.

I never wanted the show to end, they were the best years

of my life, I was like yes, we're back.

I was a big fan, yeah, I watched The Hills religiously.

We went through something so crazy together

that I just thought it would be cool to reconnect.

Gosh, I think it's been

12 or 14 years since the first Hills.

Gosh, how old am I?

Yeah, I guess, what 18, 19.

Seven years, Molly it's been seven years, right?

I honestly don't know.

I think it's been seven year, nine years?

No way.

Maybe 10 years.

When I joined, I was 22, and I'm still 22, I haven't aged.

In the beginning, I was young, and I had so much

ambitious goals in fashion, and I didn't really know

where I would end up, and now I'm married

and have a child and have a crystal empire,

so we have a lot accomplished since then.

I think when I was originally filming the show,

I wanted people to know that I had a brain.

The Hills paved the way.

Women ended up going into the industry,

and it kind of showed women going into the fashion

and beauty industry on television, and it was really cool,

it was iconic.

I think the interesting thing about the show

is you have people from all different walks of life,

it's definitely interesting.

[Interviewer] Do you wish that there was

a little more diversity represented?

We don't all look the same, I mean Audrina

has darker hair, I feel like Mischa has darker hair,

but yeah, we're California girls,

and it's a group of friends, and that just happens to be

the group that came together,

but that's just the way the show was.

I have other very diverse friends

that are not featured on the show.

Hm, what surprised me this series, I say Mischa Barton.

It's the most random thing ever

because our show, The Hills, is literally,

we basically copied the OC,

so Mischa's actually the OG Hills member.

I'm not Marissa Cooper from the OC.

When we first started talking about doing this again,

I was a little bit hesitant, 'cause I'm 33 years old,

and I have a child, and a marriage

that I really didn't want to disrupt.

No more?

[crying] Aw.

Sonny.

I just feel like it's home, it's an opportunity

to show my fans where I'm at in my life now

and being a mother, and it's a whole different vibe.

Everything about the show now is very different than it was.

It's almost like we're getting our karma

because The Hills destroyed us originally.

It tore my family apart, my parents changed the locks

on our house.

It was not a good time.

I don't know, maybe my mom was drinking

when she was pregnant with us, we're wild.

Spencer and I, we gave our parents so much trouble,

I don't know how they're still standing.

[Interviewer] How do you see your life in 10 years?

You know I would like to be living somewhere

kind of remote, have a ranch.

On a ranch style home with Bougainvillea,

I've thought about this a lot obviously.

Hopefully, not in reality television anymore per se.

Well hopefully I'll be married, my second marriage.

I hope to have a very successful swim line.

My dream, okay, 10 years, I want to open a spa,

a boutique spa that's special and unique.

That's the goal.

That's such a good question, I could see myself living

in the south of France, I could see myself in a small town,

or I could just see myself really happy,

doing what I'm doing.

I don't want to get old, I really don't want to get old,

I'm really scared.

I know, just have today be everyday.

I just love life right now.

I'd like to have two or three kids,

and I'd love to be having our Pratt Daddy crystal empire,

so I'd like to be on jets, lots of private jets.

And hopefully The Hills will still be on,

that'd be great.

These are all my babies.

When you're single, and you don't have kids,

you know, you gotta invest in something.

Are you doing the same with the other girls?

[Interviewer] Yeah.

Yeah, people mix Caitlin, the other Caitlin and I up.

[Interviewer] So do you know her?

Yeah, I mean she's Brody's dad.

Wait. Are we not,

did you not know that? Wait, Caitlin Jenner

is, okay. [laughter]