The hit Netflix show “Love is Blind” is currently holding an open casting call for its second season.
Hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey, the Netflix show “Love is Blind” was an instant hit, spending weeks at the top of the streaming platforms top 10 list and becoming an internet phenomenon.
“Love is Blind” recently secured a second season this month, Harpers Bazaar reports. No official filming date has been announced. The first season was filmed in 2018 but didn’t air on Netflix until 2020.
But there is a casting call, which you can apply for it. It asks questions about physical appearance, dating history, social media presence, religious beliefs, relationship expectations, availability for filming and references. You must be 21 years old to apply.
Netflix hopes to have 40 total people for its second season, which will be filmed in Chicago instead of Atlanta like the first season, according to Vanity Fair.
The opening season of “Love is Blind” followed 30 men and women hoping to find love. They participate in a speed dating format from different “pods” where they can see each other but not speak to each other. Then, the men can pick which of the women they want to marry and propose to them. After they propose, they meet face to face. The couples then go on a trip together to see how well they work together.
For the second season, Netflix will choose who to feature on the show based on who makes connections in the initial pod conversations, Vanity Fair reports.
The “Love Is Blind” process is incredibly fast and asks people to get engaged to someone they’ve never actually seen. But the show has an incredible track record for forming real and lasting relationships.
So far, out of six couples, there have been two marriages and one long-term relationship from the show, Screen Rant reports. Two additional couples from the show also got engaged but weren’t featured.
CNN writer Danielle J. Lindemann theorized that perhaps the blind introduction of the couples in the show is the exact reason for the success of its couples since it enables people to date outside of their demographic and broaden their horizons.
She wrote that “the pretense that this is a world where just anybody can find just anybody else neatly aligns with our longstanding national narrative about meritocracy; only in this case, instead of self-made success, it’s love that rises to the top in a glittering post-racial, post-#metoo world where we can transcend all kinds of social categorizations that have historically divided us.”