“Owning Manhattan” star Chloe Tucker Caine weighed in on castmate Jonathan Normolle’s claim that he orchestrated the shooting himself in the Season 1 finale.
“It’s going crazy” Caine, 33, said during an exclusive interview with Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast.
In particular, the actress-turned-real-estate agent – who made her reality TV debut when Ryan Serhant’s Netflix hit premiered on June 28 – did not film any one-on-one scenes with Normolle, 27, who had a polarizing presence in it. unscripted series.
“I didn’t do a scene with him,” said Caine, who insisted that he would welcome him back if only to set him straight. “Let me tell him! I have some things to tell you.”
Normolle ignited the drama in “Owning Manhattan” when he and fellow Serhant. agent Jessica “Jess” Markowski recorded a podcast episode, during which she made cruel comments about several colleagues.
Caine will enjoy a round of applause again for his harsh decision.
“You look like a boy negotiating to planet Earth. I’m asking you to sit down, stop talking, put your helmet (down),” he told Page Six, revealing the message he will share with Normolle if he returns for Season 2.
“I know you ride a motorcycle but I have to put on your helmet, zip your lips and listen. We have to choose all your life choices.”
Normolle previously claimed to the Daily Mail that he was responsible for his own termination, further boasting that 40-year-old Serhant, his current boss, had fallen into a trap.
“I have a plan because I have a contract with Ryan and all the sponsors,” Normolle told the outlet.
“The only way I can get out of the contract is if I get Ryan mad enough for him to fire me,” he added. “… I went to Ryan with all this and he was so angry that he fired me on TV – and immediately the contract was invalid.”
Caine tells “Virtual Reali-Tea” that Normolle’s story makes no sense to him. “Jonathan said he masterminded the shooting?” she said. “Not Jonathan.”
Although the 31-year-old Markowski was involved in an explosive conversation with Normolle, his comments were vague. Serhant was kept on staff, but gave Normolle the ax in epic fashion during a tense conversation at the top of The Edge in New York City’s Hudson Yards.
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Caine felt Serhant made the right call to save Markowski – even if he wasn’t a fan.
“I really didn’t like dogs at the time. I was like, ‘You’re hanging with the wrong crowd. How did you not see the red flag? It was, like, literally the biggest red (flag) in front of your face: Jonathan,'” she recounted. .
“I was just like, ‘What happened?’ Then the podcast happened and I was like, ‘Girl, get him out of here!’”
However, Markowski’s decision to apologize for being involved in a bad situation won Caine over.
“I’d say he’s really in charge. He’s like, ‘Listen, I’m screwed. I and I have it. I’m going to put my head down and I’m going to work,'” he told “Virtual Reali Tea.”
“And he’s been and he’s killing it and I respect him. He’s really big with me, that one.”
Perhaps there is room for Normolle to make good with Caine and the rest of the “Having Manhattan” cast. Serhant said in July that he would entertain the idea of the tattooed hunk returning for the upcoming sophomore installment of the show, which he announced this week.
“I came to New York City to do theater, so I was on a soap opera (‘As the World Turns’). So I played Doctor Evan Walsh IV. Soon after I started, I went from being a good doctor to a doctor who kills everything a man is then killed by his own grandmother. That in the ‘World of Actors’ means you are fired,” he said.
“And I remember going to the executive producer and he was like, ‘Hey, listen. If the audience loves you, you can always come back from the dead,'” Serhant explained. “And that’s what I’m going to say.”
“Belonging to Manhattan” is available to stream on Netflix.
