*Models Eva Marcille and Toccara Jones are speaking out about their experience on “America’s Next Top Model.”
The pair competed in ANTM season three, which air 2004, and Marcille made history as the first Black model to win the title. At the time, Jones was the first plus-size model to appear on the series.
Marcille and Jones recently appeared together on the “Big Tigger Morning Show” and revealed how they finessed their way on to the show, The Jasmine Brand reports.
“I went to a fake call-back. I slid to a call-back when I wasn’t at the initial audition to even be called back to,” Marcille said.
According to Eva, the initial casting call was held in Atlanta, but she missed it due to work obligations.
“When I go home I look it up, the [call-back] audition is in Memphis, Tennessee. So I decided to drive my Nissan Sentra down to Memphis, Tennessee with a donut tire. We roll down there, didn’t have any money, didn’t have money to stay in a hotel room, nothing.”
Per The Jasmine Brand, she added, “The lady asked me – she goes, ‘So, where did we first see you?’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, I can’t waste a sin on a real lie, so how we go pivot this, like a fake lie.’ I said, ‘Well, I first saw ya’ll in Atlanta at Lenox. Ya’ll were casting.’ … I literally just debowed my way through and from there they had me wait and I made it to the semifinal round and I made it up on the show.”
Jones said when she didn’t receive a call back, she also took matters into her own hands.
“Same. I didn’t get a call-back and I said, ‘Oh, they got me messed up.,’” Jones said.
She continued, “I went back anyway. They had [a call-back] in New York and one in Minneapolis. I said ‘Let me go to the one in Minneapolis because New York go be too crowded.’ Girl, I caught a flight and showed up.”
Eva interjected to add, “It’s called ingenuity.” and podcast host Big Tigger replied, “You called it ingenuity, I just called her a pretty thug for that.”
Watch the conversation via the YouTube clip below.
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