Caroline Tensen is sometimes accused of superficiality; as if she hangs in Leco van Zadelhoff’s hairdresser’s chair all day long. But nothing is less true. She turns out to be a workhorse.
People who work full-time go to work about 36 to 40 hours a week. Strange, they think at the Mediapark in Hilversum. There, the big stars of our country think that an hour a day is already ‘top sport’. What about Caroline Tensen? How much does that woman actually work for all those tons of money that she gets from all sides?
Distributing energy
Well, we shouldn’t underestimate that. Caroline works herself to death, especially when she has one against 100 shooting days. “I record about three shows a day,” she explains in the TROS Kompas. “You are on the floor three times a day for at least an hour and a half, with a hundred players each time.”
Wow, does Caroline just work 4.5 hour days? How does she do that? “You have to distribute your energy well and be focused,” she explains. “And when I go into the studio on a Tuesday morning, I really have to think: okay, it is now half past nine on Sunday evening.”
Week of work
All joking aside: there are of course some breaks between those 4.5 hours of work and there will be quite a bit of overrun now and then. Before you know it, she’ll be close to that eight-hour working day.
That is indeed quite tough. But wait a minute… Those seasons of One Against 100 aren’t that long, are they? And then she shoots three episodes in one day? “Yes, so we did a whole season in one week.”
Ah, that still leaves about 50 weeks. Enough space to distribute her energy. Fine.