For alleged labor violations, a contestant from the second season of the Netflix series Love Is Blind is suing the streaming platform.
Producers allegedly restricted actors’ access to food and water, underpaid them, and encouraged their drinking.
According to Mr. Hartwell’s accusations being “completely unfounded,” production company Kinetic Content told Variety.
Along with Kinetic Content’s casting agency Delirium TV, the defendants in the lawsuit, which was filed in California Superior Court in Los Angeles, include Netflix and Kinetic Content. The contestants in Love Is Blind meet but are unable to see one another and are limited to speaking through the loudspeakers.
The candidates then form a couple, but before they can meet in person, they must first become engaged. On-screen, some relationships end in marriage while others end in divorce. After meeting in the first season, Cameron Hamilton and Lauren Speed got married and are still together today.
Mr. In a weekend interview, Hartwell advised trying to prevent the effects of sleep deprivation following long days of filming in bright lights.
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Alcohol was available and even encouraged when drunk on an empty stomach, he claimed, but he did not have access to food or water. The actors’ luggage was searched in a manner similar to a “boot camp,” Mr. Hartwell continued.
According to the lawsuit, the actors “were routinely denied food and drink in a timely manner…while on set severely limiting the availability of hydration options. “.
In accordance with the lawsuit, the contestants should have been treated as employees rather than independent contractors in accordance with California state law because producers are solely responsible for determining the types of work actors perform and the number of hours they are required to put in.
Hartwell would demand unpaid wages, monetary compensation for missed meal and rest periods, unspecified damages for unfair business practices, and civil penalties for Labor Code violations in his lawsuit.
Hartwell was on the program for less than a week after failing to forge a meaningful connection with another contestant.
