It starts out sounding very familiar, and then the rug gets pulled out from under you."
How did that woman actually get stuck in this situation?
And how does she get out?"
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She is the butt of most of the jokes and seemingly fine with it…
But on our show, we follow her out of that sitcom world where there is no laugh track.
Her dramatic life is full of grit and emotion that she’s not afforded in that sitcom."
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“It’s not a show within a show,” Armstrong stresses.
“She’s not an actor.
It’s just the way this world is presented.
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It’s like a lens.
It’s a metaphor for the benefit of the doubt we’ve given men like Kevin forever.
Men who get to like walk through life with a sitcom audience cheering them on all the time.”
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When they finally got Murphy in, she was a perfect fit.
“It needs to have its own humor without having hard and fast jokes like the multicam.
Whoever we found needed to make these small moments funny, and Annie can make anything funny.”
We didn’t reinvent the wheel.
Rounding out the cast is Brian Howe as Kevin’s dad, Pete.
This was the line of these men, and one begets another.'"
“We have this warehouse in Randolph, Mass.
; our production designer, who’s named Tony Fanning, I call it Tony Town.
It’s just like a weird little Downtown Disney thing in the middle of this warehouse.”
And we have little nods to her throughout the show the main characters all live on Shelton Street.
Our first episode is dedicated to her."
When the show was finally able to begin production, it wasOz Rodriguezwho took the reins.
“It was such a unique job because it wasn’t starting from scratch,” he says.
“I want the sitcom to feel a little timeless,” she adds.
I would not say that at all."
“I am absolutely open to anything.”
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