Constance Zimmer makes her directorial debut on 'UnReal' – and there was no yelling
LOS ANGELES - For Quinn King, the gruff executive producer of a "Bachelor"-like reality show in Lifetime's "UnReal," a normal day of boss-dom includes manipulation, shouting into walkie-talkies when scenes don't have enough drama, and dressing down the crew with words of "encouragement" like, "Why don't you go and be useful?"
Not exactly the approach Constance Zimmer, who plays the acerbic honcho in the weekly drama, adopted when she made her move into directing during the show's current third season.
"I definitely was not as intense as Quinn would be," Zimmer, 47, says while seated on the front patio of her Hollywood Hills home. "I saw Greta Gerwig (an Oscar nominee for her directorial debut of "Lady Bird") on a panel recently and she said, 'When it's your first time, that's when you can fail.' That was my approach.
