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  • 6/12/2025
Only Josie Totah can make 3 hours of sleep look this good on a date. The ‘Buccaneers’ actress joins Cosmo Editor-in-Chief Willa Bennett in this episode of "Blind Date" for a meal full of spicy throwback questions and even hotter takes. The catch? Willa will have to spend the first half of the date blindfolded until she can accurately guess who her date is. Throughout the date, Josie opens up about her spirituality, her stance on hiking dates (“Do you want me dead in a ditch?”), and why stalking your ex is simply human nature. Over a 1997 edition of Cosmo and a full spaghetti and meatballs meal, Josie calls Raya for actors “satanic,” breaks down her dating dealbreakers (phones don’t eat first—or at all), makes a case for hot people prioritizing other hot people, and reveals what makes her a true Leo.

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00:00What's the cringiest thing someone's ever done on a date with you?
00:02Absolutely. Three weeks ago, this guy literally pulled out his phone
00:06when the food hit the table and said,
00:07do you mind if my phone eats first?
00:08I wanted to say, do you mind if the knife goes into my neck?
00:11My name is Willa Bennett.
00:13I'm the editor-in-chief of Cosmo in 17,
00:15and this is Blind Date,
00:16where I go on blind dates with my celebrity friends.
00:19And I have to guess who it is?
00:21Pedro Pascal.
00:22You're thinking people are way cooler than me.
00:24I will be pulling from old Cosmos
00:26and exploring the intricacies of love and relationships.
00:30My sister got Cosmo, and this is, like, what I did as a kid.
00:32It raised me.
00:33Name three turn-ons in a relationship.
00:35Likes me.
00:37Would you ever look through someone's phone that you're dating?
00:40Hell yeah.
00:41What is the first thing you notice about someone you're interested in?
00:43Face. Next question.
00:46All right.
00:48Bo is tied.
00:50I really can't see.
00:53Okay, I hear something.
00:57Blind dates are, like,
00:58they're kind of miserable
01:00because you can't,
01:01you don't know who you're getting set up with.
01:03So, have we met before?
01:06Yes.
01:07Oh, my God.
01:08Would you say we have chemistry?
01:10Yes.
01:11I think I'm going to ditch the mic.
01:13Are you Sabrina Carpenter?
01:15I'm so honored that you thought that.
01:19Oh, my God, your accent.
01:20You, like, literally are Sabrina Carpenter.
01:21I'm really honored that you thought that,
01:24but I don't have good graces like her.
01:27Okay, okay, but who else can do accents like this?
01:29Are you Tate McRae?
01:32No, but I fucking wish.
01:35Are you Madeline Argy?
01:37It is such a compliment.
01:39But I'm absolutely not.
01:41I love her TikToks.
01:42I love her TikToks, too.
01:44Do you make TikToks?
01:45No, I made one TikTok.
01:48Oh, what was your one TikTok?
01:49Well, my one TikTok of me
01:51and me and a video and me and a friend.
01:54We may have shared a little kiss.
01:55You made out with someone in a TikTok?
01:57No, it was a little peck.
01:59And it might have gone a little viral.
02:02Drink some of your...
02:03Literally so true.
02:04I'm going to give you some wine.
02:06Have some wine.
02:08Tilt, tilt.
02:11Okay, the TikTok, I have a guess.
02:13Josie?
02:14Ah, yes, bitch.
02:16Yes.
02:17It's me.
02:18Oh, my God.
02:18Tell me everything.
02:19So let's discuss.
02:20Let's lock in.
02:21What's your preferred setup for, like, a date?
02:25I met my last two partners on Instagram.
02:27She is a social media girl.
02:29New wave baddie.
02:30What about you?
02:31I feel like Raya, though.
02:32For me?
02:33Yeah.
02:33You just might as well have called me a slut.
02:35No, I use Raya, so...
02:37Oh.
02:37It's like...
02:38Respect.
02:40Raya's fine, like, in your sphere.
02:44Raya for actors.
02:45Yeah, what's it like?
02:46Satanic.
02:47It's actually just, like, a bunch of real estate agents with an edge.
02:52That's a no for me.
02:53By the way, this is literally the first thing I've consumed.
02:56I slept three hours, and this is the first thing I put on my body, I just wanted to say.
03:00So I'm going to read Cosmo from 1997.
03:05I'm giving myself in this mirror, sorry.
03:06I haven't seen a mirror today.
03:08I am going to ask you real questions from Cosmo 1997 that you're supposed to ask on a first date to make someone fall in love with you.
03:13Why men split the morning after is the first cover lie.
03:16I don't know why they do.
03:18Can't speak to that.
03:19I can't either.
03:20Are you religious?
03:21You know, I actually weirdly am, like, quite spiritual.
03:30Tell me more about that.
03:31But I wouldn't say this is a full meal.
03:34Do you think people are naturally monogamous?
03:37I think monogamy is a choice.
03:38Can I sleep around?
03:40What?
03:41Yeah.
03:41Like, while you're dating me?
03:42First date.
03:43If I ask that, what do you think?
03:44If you want to stay alive.
03:46You do not like this question.
03:47I think if it's a non-exclusive situation, absolutely.
03:51What do you do in your spare time?
03:52I watch movies.
03:54I bike when I'm home.
03:57Would you ask someone on a first date to bike?
03:59You know what I think is demonic?
04:01Like, the people that are like, and it's always straight people who are like, let's hike.
04:05I'm like, do you want me dead in a ditch?
04:07Like, asking me to run you in Canyon on a first date.
04:10Oh my God, no.
04:10I might as well have slipped me arsenic and, like, said my goodnight prayers.
04:14I haven't met anyone on a date that's excited me recently.
04:17Do you have any idea why?
04:18I mean, it probably means you have high standards.
04:20I haven't had water today.
04:22Like, I truly, like, I haven't had a sip of water since literally yesterday afternoon.
04:26Thank you so much.
04:26A little bit more.
04:27You can do hers as well.
04:30After you break up with someone, would you stalk their social media?
04:33Yeah, I think that's, like, an integral part of human nature is to, like, stalk everyone.
04:38You sort of, like, have been scorned by our hate.
04:41But I also think, like, you shouldn't.
04:45All right, this is the perfect time for discussion.
04:49These are questions I've never seen before because I didn't know who you were.
04:52And these are going to be spicy.
04:56What is the most Leo thing about you in relationships?
04:59People don't think I'm a Leo.
05:01But I do think the most Leo thing about me is, like, I'm here to hold court.
05:04And you think you're the star in the dynamic?
05:07Well, yes.
05:09What's one astrological sign you would never date?
05:12This is the thing.
05:13Like, this is why I escaped L.A.
05:15Within the first 10 minutes of a date in L.A., everyone's talking about astrology and, like, trying to decipher.
05:20And I'm like, it is just so ridiculous that people make astrology such a big thing.
05:24But Gemini.
05:25Do you kiss on the first date?
05:26It's not, like, something I do.
05:28But, like, if it happens, it happens.
05:30If it happens, it happens.
05:31I like that answer.
05:31But I don't like, that's the thing, though.
05:33I'm not, like, going on, like, random first dates.
05:36It's, like, usually it's, like, a friend that, like, becomes someone.
05:39Maybe that's why I've never been around a ship and found love and been loved.
05:44Who is one co-star you would date?
05:47Alicia Bowe.
05:48Absolutely.
05:49Are you kidding me?
05:49So true.
05:50Who is one co-star you wouldn't date?
05:52I mean, I feel like I've worked with, like, really amazing people.
05:56There's no one bad you've ever spoken to.
05:58No, I, like, everyone I've ever met is so nice.
06:00But also, I've worked with a lot of, like, adults who are older than me.
06:03Like, anyone over, like, 30, five, I probably shouldn't touch.
06:09Do you think we need a knife or you were good?
06:10We're fine.
06:11Okay.
06:11Do you feel like you ever wanted to, like, be in entertainment in a different way?
06:15Like, did you want to be an actress?
06:18Um, no.
06:19I never wanted to be an actress.
06:20I always wanted to be a writer.
06:20I wanted to write Gay Toilet.
06:22That was always my dream.
06:23Toilet is gay.
06:24That's, like, the gayest film of all time.
06:26This is so cute.
06:27You have half my hair.
06:27I have the other half.
06:28I love it.
06:29I love it.
06:29I love it.
06:30I love it.
06:30I love it.
06:30You would be so good in Twilight.
06:32I would cast you.
06:32You know, my friend did tell me once I was Bella Swan with a personality.
06:35You're so Bella Swan.
06:37With a personality.
06:38One celebrity couple you genuinely stan.
06:40Suki and Rob Pattinson.
06:42Absolutely.
06:43So true.
06:43I think they're, like, an incredible couple.
06:46And I think they're so cool.
06:48And I think they just are, like, the prototype.
06:50Beautiful people should be together.
06:51I think in a world with so much hate, we should prioritize hot people interacting with other
06:57hot people.
06:58What's the cringiest thing someone's ever done on a date with you?
07:00Absolutely.
07:01Three weeks ago, this guy literally pulled out his phone when the food hit the table and
07:05said, do you mind if my phone eats first?
07:07I wanted to say, do you mind if the knife goes into my neck?
07:10Okay.
07:10Have you ever ghosted anyone?
07:12Yes.
07:12Him.
07:13I told him on the date that I just wanted to be friends.
07:17So it wasn't technically ghosting.
07:18That's, like, so kind.
07:20I think it's, like, a little self-confident to break up or, like, to, like, end it via
07:25text, like, before it's, like, gotten there.
07:27I honestly feel this way.
07:28Oh, this happened...
07:29Or I'm like, you think I care?
07:30Oh, my God.
07:30This happened to me recently where I met this guy.
07:32He's a young, sort of, like, successful actor and...
07:36Name.
07:37His government name is...
07:39Then we, like, kind of hit it off and he was like, oh, we should hang out.
07:42I was like, yeah, I'd love to.
07:43Then the morning of, like, this award show, us announcements, like, the nomination announcements
07:49come out and he's nominated and I get a text from him promptly about 30 minutes after Deadline
07:55releases news saying, I do not have the time and energy to put my energy into you.
08:01To which I said, I wasn't even into you.
08:03What?
08:04That is wild.
08:05Like, aren't you supposed to be on the phone with, like, Variety right now?
08:07Like, you literally just, like, why are you calling me?
08:09Like, why am I getting attacked?
08:11And then he didn't win.
08:12So, cheers.
08:14Cheers.
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