- The cast of "The Ultimatum" was recruited for the show through social media. Yes, you read that right. Unlike the traditional method of casting calls for TV shows, the cast of "The Ultimatum" claims that the Netflix series does their recruiting a bit differently. "Someone was commenting on our social media and said, 'Hey, we have a dating show we want you to be on for anyone that's looking to get married," April says of the casting process. Madlyn, Colby, Alexis, Hunter, and Randall also confirm that someone from "The Ultimatum" reached out to them through Instagram DMs.
- The cast weren't told they'd be dating other people's partners before filming started. According to Randall, he and Shanique were given very few details about "The Ultimatum" — which was originally referred to as "The Awesome Couples Project" before filming — prior to starting the casting process. "I had no idea what the concept was. I just thought it was us going through therapy, sitting down talking to somebody, and then us working things out. Not us dating other people for three weeks," he reveals. Randall says that while some people from the cast may have been told about the show's premise, he was under the impression that they'd be "speed dating." "I didn't know until the day we got there or the day before we got there that we would be living with somebody for three weeks. That was the shock factor right there and I was super sceptical. I almost backed out."
- The surprise engagements in episode three caught the cast off guard, too. There were a lot of wild moments from this season of "The Ultimatum," but the shocking dinner scene in episode three was something even the cast didn't see coming. "I think they did a great job editing that and showing basically everything that happened," Randall says. "What you didn't see is just all the other faces that were made behind the scenes of the confusion . . . April made this face like, 'You gotta be kidding me,' and I was like, 'Oh, this is really happening right now.'" Randall calls the scene an "interesting experience" of what was actually a really long night for the cast. "We didn't get a chance to eat until we got to our rooms, which is like 2:00 a.m. . . . it was so crazy and I don't think anybody expected that twist to happen."
- The cast felt short-changed when Alexis, Hunter, Lauren and Nate left "The Ultimatum" early. After the surprise proposals that happened in episode three, the two couples exited the show, leaving only Rae, Zay, Shanique, Randall, April, Jake, Colby, and Madlyn to continue the social experiment. "When the proposals happened, we felt short-changed, like they were taking the easy way out," Randall says. "If that was the case, why did you sign up to come on a show like this?" Although the engagements seemed confusing at first, Randall says that it all worked out for Alexis and Hunter (who are getting married this summer) and Lauren and Nate, and that the cast is happy for them.
- April cried way more times than "The Ultimatum" showed. It's a known fact that hours of footage are often cut from reality TV shows for times' sake. And while April's supercut played during the reunion of her speaking in third person seemed excessive, "The Ultimatum" star says it pales in comparison to the many scenes of her shedding tears. "I cried way more than they actually showed you," she reveals. "So when people were telling me, 'You're such a cry baby, you were crying in every scene,' that was not even a fourth of it." She even says she was surprised they had enough scenes of her when she wasn't having a "full-out meltdown."
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