That's how interviews are. I was watching a Netflix documentary yesterday about social media and they're interviewing these guys and the person off camera says something and the interview subject responds and it's supposed to seem like it's all happening spontaneously but it's obviously not if you think about it. Just like real life you rarely get a seamless witty and spontaneous repertoire. If it's going on widespread media you don't want the conversation to bomb and it would fairly often if these things weren't scripted. I mean, think about it. There'd be some question they'd have to think about, or not know, or maybe they'd misspeak.

You just aren't supposed to see the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain.

You ever see Gilmore Girls? I fucking hate that show but I've seen every one of the old ones because the wife loved it. Watching it you might be tempted to assume there are people who have that effortless witty back and forth banter. But really few people are capable of that most of the time, and nobody is all the time. It's not realistic, but doing a scripted dialogue like that gives the impression they are gifted conversationalists. And that's meant to impress. Somewhere in the back of your head you're thinking, how do they do that? Well, they had script writers write a script first. That's how they do that.