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New Jersey
Tara Reid has admitted that when she made the first Sharknado film, she was too embarrassed to tell anyone about it.
The actress also starred in the follow up, Sharknado 2: The Second One, which recently premiered on TV channel Syfy, and told Access Hollywood Live that it had taken her a while to realise what a huge success the concept would be.
She said of making the original: ‘When I first did it, it was called Dark Skies, so I thought, ‘Okay, it’s not going to sound so bad on my resume... it’ll be fine. ‘And then, all of a sudden, not even a week into it, they’re like, ‘We’re changing the name to Sharknado’. I said, ‘Oh my God, this is it. My career is over. I’m going to make a movie called Sharknado?’ ‘I begged them to change the name. It was horrible. They said, ‘Trust us, you’ll get it, it’ll work’.’
Tara went on: ‘When it came, I never told anyone about it. I can’t say I’m starring in a movie called Sharknado. I thought, ‘Okay, it’s on Syfy, no-one will ever see it.’ When it became this phenomenon, I was like, ‘Are you joking me, is this really happening?’‘ She also reassured fans that another follow-up was in the works: ‘We know Sharknado 3 is green lit for sure,’ but when London was suggested as a setting said she didn’t want to shoot in the cold: ‘No, somewhere warm this time.