Frankie Godoy was the eighth contestant to be eliminated from Bravo's new reality show, Make Me A Supermodel. Frankie was often criticized by the judges for having a stiff walk, but there were times when he shined, notably in the seventh episode, "Into the Wild," in which he had to model with both a snake and a duck. He also formed strong friendships with his fellow male models Perry Ullmann and Casey Skinner.

Frankie spoke to BuddyTV today about his performance in his last photo shoot and runway show before being voted off Make Me A Supermodel, about the strained relationship he had with fellow model Holly Kiser and about how he likes his new look, post-haircut.  Below you will find an audiofile and a complete transcript of the interview.

Hey everybody. This is Debbie at BuddyTV, and I'm Frankie from Make Me A Supermodel. Hey, Frankie, how's it going?

I'm good. How's it going with you guys?


I'm pretty good. So, you got eliminated after your performance in the episode "Speed & Motion." What do you think you could have improved on, and do you think that your elimination was fair?

I mean, it was really hard to improve on anything in that episode because when I was there and the photographer, you know, "Am I doing anything wrong? Do I have the shot right? Is my face right? He would tell me, "Yes." He would tell me thing like, "It's brilliant. Your face looks good. Your expression's on cue, and you're always getting your cue" Just really positive things in the photoshoot, so it was really bizarre for him to just send me home like that, you know? But, I mean, it happens. What can you do?


Yeah, and with the runway show, you had that spinning turntable. How much time did you have to practice?

The spinning turntable? I just had a couple minutes to practice. Not much time at all. But that's how it'd be in the real world. They would send you on without even practicing, you know?


Yeah, you actually made it look pretty easy. Was it tricky to get on and off of that?

Yeah, it was pretty easy for me. I didn't have much of a problem. I used to go in the fun houses, like, at the fair, and they had a whole bunch of turning floors. And I would always go on those and mess around, so I kind of had, if you can say, experience with turning tables.


Throughout the season, you seemed to have gotten really close especially with Perry and Casey. But in last week's episode, after you got eliminated, Holly mentioned that you guys were sort of faking being friends. And so, I just wanted to know what the real story was there.

[laughs] I mean, I never liked her and I guess she never liked me. We just didn't get along. A lot of things that she would do would just aggravate me. We weren't really friends at all. We had to somehow settle the peace to the panel and keep talking about it, but yeah, you know.


But you and Perry and Casey were pretty tight?

Yeah, me and Perry and Casey were really good friends. Definitely. We became really close during the show. We helped each other out, but we also had an understanding between each other that this is a competition, and if we have an opportunity to get you in the bottom three, we're going to do it, you know? But at the end of the day, we're going to be friends.


Right. Were you sad when they made you cut your hair?

[laughs] It was kind of weird. I mean, I was really attached to it, so it was a little upsetting. But, I mean, it was for a new look, and I'm always up for change.


Are you going to keep your new look?

Yeah. I'm going to keep it for a while and get some work done with it, build somewhat of a book with it, and then grow it back out so that clients have more options.


Yeah, cool. In general, what do you find is the hardest part about modeling for you?

The hardest thing... I don't know. It's all hard. It really is. It's all hard. You just have to always bring your A-game. You have to always be able to listen, and you always have to pay attention to what's going on, and pay attention to people's body languages around you, and always be on top of your game.


Did you get to have a lot of downtime in the house, like when you weren't... What did you guys do when you weren't on set or when you weren't doing a runway show?

Yeah, when we weren't on set or anything or we weren't doing runway, we were pretty much locked in the house. We'd throw lemons around at each other, play catch. We actually made a chess board out of cardboard and chalk pieces. You just have to get creative, you know? Play little games and stuff like that.


Did you have a lot of time to work out as well?

Yeah, we definitely had time to work out. We would work out, eat and just talk crap.


Your trainer, Clay Burwell I think his name is, like, he looks terrifying. Can you just describe...

He's not. He's a really big teddy bear.


Really?

Yeah. He's really cool. He's a really nice guy. He can get like that, you know. It's not so much terrifying as it is he is passionate for what he does. He loves fitness, he's really into it. And he really cares about us, which is why I really liked him. Because he would actually care how our bodies turned out. He would want us to actually succeed, each and every one of us, he would help us a lot, in the competition and in the gym. He's a really good guy.


So, what kind of workouts did he make you do?

We would do a whole bunch of calisthenics, push ups, lunges, squat thrusts, pull ups and things like that. It was really intense, his workouts. It was really hard.


Yeah, it looks it.

He definitely showed improvements on people, so it was really good.


And, what's next for you, Frankie?

I'm just going to keep modeling, you know? I got my foot in the door a little bit more than I was before in the industry, so I'm going to take advantage of it right now while people still remember me, and just hit the industry hard.


Great. Well, best of luck to you. I really enjoyed talking to you today.

Okay.

-Interview conducted by Debbie Chang
(Image courtesy of Bravo)