How do you sum up what a show likeSchitt’s Creekmeans to people in the span of an hour?
That was the challenge at hand for director Amy Segal.
With it came as many tears and laughs as the show itself.
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Here are some of the highlights.
That set Eugene’s “heart to palpitating.”
“I’d certainly seen him on MTV,” Eugene continued.
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I still didn’t know."
“Good character-based comedy, good grounded stuff,” Eugene explained.
“He wanted an emotional investment in the characters.”
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But this was a different version of Twyla.
The doc shows Twyla explaining what the Lucky Nail manicure salon is to David.
“She said yes, and the rest is history.”
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The pair acted out the scene wherein Alexis arrives at Mutt’s doorstep and realizes he’s dating Twyla.
“I hadn’t worked in over two years.
The universe was really screaming in my ear, ‘This is not for you!’
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Literally the next day, I got an email for an audition for a show calledSchitt’s Creek.”
Hampshire laughed when she remembered her audition.
She described a moment where she found herself “rotary dialing an imaginary phone.”
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Yes, there’s footage of that in the documentary, too.
Inside Moira’s wardrobe
Moira’s wigs and wardrobe are characters on the show, as well.
And the documentary pays tribute to them by taking us inside O’Hara’s dressing room and wardrobe fittings.
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The wigs, however, weren’t in the script initially.
“It works for fashion reasons, it works for hiding or revealing what what I’m feeling.
It works as a protective helmet.”
And Moira’s outfits scream, “Look at me, bebes!”
A surprise addition wasCameron Crowe.
Who knew the director behind films likeAlmost Famous,Vanilla Sky, andJerry Maguirewas aSchittstan?
“Nothing happened too soon, and the love that started to come in was really well earned.”
Later, he remarked, “Every line’s classic.
More gushing from Crowe here: “Schitt’s Creekis joy.
It’s the easiest thing to take for granted and the hardest thing to get right…
I think time is gonna be very, very good to this show.
It already has been.
Just wish it would go longer.”
“Writing David as a queer character was just something that I wanted to do,” Dan said.
“I didn’t do it to make a political statement.
“We’re not teaching [the audience] a lesson,” Dan clarified.
“We’re showing them what life could be like.”
Dan had a lot of trouble reading through David’s vows from the wedding episode.
“I can’t read it,” he exclaimed through tears.
Looking around the table, he realized just about everyone was in tears, as well.
“We don’t watch each other shoot every scene,” O’Hara said of that moment.
That was killer.”
End of series.”
