The star of 'The Arrangement' reveals how the show explores Hollywood's fake relationships

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March 4, 2017 3:46 PM

"The Arrangement" star Christine Evangelista speaks with Business Insider about just how common fake Hollywood relationships really are.

"The Arrangement" stars Josh Henderson and Christine Evangelista.

Christine Evangelista made the leap from "badass" Sherry on AMC's "The Walking Dead" to starring on E!'s new drama "The Arrangement," which premieres Sunday at 10 p.m.

Many in the media had wondered if the show's producers found inspiration in the alleged wedding contract between Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, which was reportedly controlled by Scientology. During the Television Critics Association press tour in January,

"Even if I could legally do it... I don’t have the authority to do it,” Abrahams told a room of skeptical journalists about whether he could confirm that Cruise and Holmes were an inspiration for the show. "It doesn’t matter, because it really isn’t."

"We’ve all heard of rumors. You read any tabloid, right?" she said. "That’s what a marketing team does. There’s strategy involved with promoting a movie. I don’t personally know anyone that’s been forced into a contract marriage. I think if you think back to the old Hollywood studio days, back when Paramount had players and you worked for one studio lot, of course there was some kind of internal matchmaking involved to promote things. So this has been around for a really long time. And I’m just very surprised that there’s never been a TV show about it."

Evangelista thinks that the time is right for a show like "The Arrangement," since the amount of information the public knows now and expects to know about celebrities has become so broad.

"I think with reality shows, people want to know what happens behind closed doors," she told us. "And I think that’s kind of what the show is about. It’s revealing what’s behind the curtain, how do things play out, how do things get made, how are things dramatized, and that’s what the show really is. It’s very intriguing."

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