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        <title><![CDATA[‘Schitt’s Creek’ star Emily Hampshire talks about ‘perfect’ series finale]]></title>
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            <media:title type="html">‘Schitt’s Creek’ star Emily Hampshire talks about ‘perfect’ series finale</media:title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p >Emily Hampshire, aka &#8220;Schitt&#8217;s Creek&#8221; motel owner Stevie Budd, is convinced <strong>Tuesday night&#8217;s series finale</strong> will please its legion of fans.</p><p>&#8220;I can say, with 100 percent certainty, that people will be satisfied with how the show ends,&#8221; says Hampshire, who&#8217;s in her late-30s. &#8220;It&#8217;s not one of those finales where you watch it and are disappointed by the ending. People might be sad the show is ending, but it ends so perfectly.</p><p>&#8220;And a fun bit of trivia,&#8221; she says of the finale, airing 8 p.m. on Pop TV and sister networks Comedy Central and Logo. &#8220;There&#8217;s an Easter egg you can watch for: our very final scene was our last scene together with all of us &#8212; the very last scene we shot &#8212; so there&#8217;s a lot going on for us, not just on the show but in saying goodbye to each other.&#8221;</p><p>The <strong>ensemble, Emmy-nominated comedy series</strong> &#8212; about a once-wealthy family living in the podunk town of Schitt&#8217;s Creek in a rundown motel after losing their millions &#8212; was co-created by father-and-son team Eugene Levy (&#8220;SCTV&#8221;) and Daniel Levy. They play father-and-son Johnny and David Rose, with Catherine O&#8217;Hara as affected soap opera-actress mother Moira and Annie Murphy as David&#8217;s sister, Alexis, who&#8217;s grown from spoiled-brat to responsible citizen since the show&#8217;s 2015 premiere.</p><figure id="attachment_15440669"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/04/schitts-creek-05.jpeg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/04/schitts-creek-05.jpeg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/04/schitts-creek-05.jpeg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>The cast of &#8220;Schitt&#8217;s Creek.&#8221;</span><span class="credit">PopTV</span></figcaption></figure><p>The series derives much of its charm from the inhabitants of Schitt&#8217;s Creek, particularly flannel-wearing Stevie (Hampshire), who owns the Rosebud Motel into which the Rose clan moves (she eventually goes into business with Johnny). At first abrasive and cynical, she&#8217;s evolved over the course of six seasons into a more fully-rounded and, dare we say, <em>sensitive</em> person. &#8220;A lot of times fans do these mashups from all the seasons and whenever they put something from Season 1 of me and Dan we&#8217;re like, &#8216;Oh my God, we were such babies,&#8221; says Hampshire, who&#8217;s been acting since her early teens and shot the first few seasons of &#8220;Schitt&#8217;s Creek&#8221; concurrently with Syfy&#8217;s &#8220;12 Monkeys&#8221; (she played Jennifer Goines).</p><p>&#8220;I find it remarkable with Stevie, as opposed to most characters who grow and evolve and change, I think Stevie is like one of those Russian [nesting] dolls &#8212; she opened up more like an onion,&#8221; she says. &#8220;She was this hard shell at the beginning and through the seasons she&#8217;s peeled back these layers to reveal who she really is without all the walls up. I think she&#8217;s grown inwardly to outwardly, if that makes sense. She got more vulnerable &#8230; when Mr. Rose came into her life as a father figure and started helping her run the motel.&#8221;</p><p>Hampshire points to a Season 5 episode as a turning point for her character. &#8220;The &#8216;Cabaret&#8217; episode when Stevie sings &#8216;Maybe This Time,&#8217; &#8221; she says. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of meta going on there. I&#8217;ve been an actor since I was 12 and my dream role is Sally Bowles in &#8216;Cabaret.&#8217; What&#8217;s crazy is that I&#8217;m not a great singer or dancer but I&#8217;ll commit. When I read that episode, I died. Not only did I get to play Sally Bowles, but I got to do it as Stevie. &#8216;Maybe This Time&#8217; is such a self-empowering song &#8230; and when David [Rose] says, &#8216;That&#8217;s my best friend,&#8217; that moment just kills me. He&#8217;s so proud of her and I think she cracked right open during that song.&#8221;</p><p>That episode (as were many others) was written by Dan Levy, with whom Hampshire bonded the most closely, both on the &#8220;Schitt&#8217;s Creek&#8221; set and in real life. &#8220;Dan and I definitely had a David and Stevie thing going on and we still do,&#8221; she says. &#8220;We definitely have that dynamic. Stevie taught me to be a better friend, and that comes from Dan, who created this amazing human being.&#8221;</p><p>The friendship between the &#8220;Schitt&#8217;s Creek&#8221; actors continued after the series wrapped last July, Hampshire says. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had a lot of time to mourn this. As a wrap gift, Dan rented a villa in Tuscany for us to say goodbye to each other and we spent two weeks there &#8212; me, Annie (Murphy), Noah Reid (Patrick), <strong>Sarah (Levy, Dan&#8217;s sister, who played Twyla)</strong>, Dan and Jenn Robertson (Jocelyn Schitt). We did a lot of Karaoke. It was great.&#8221;</p><p>Next up for Hampshire is a guest-starring role in the Quibi series &#8220;50 States of Fright&#8221; and a lead role in &#8220;Chapelwaite,&#8221; an Epix series based on a Stephen King short story that will shoot in Nova Scotia. &#8220;It&#8217;s with Adrien Brody and is set in 1850, so I was excited to go from &#8216;Schitt&#8217;s Creek&#8217; to 1850 wearing a corset,&#8221; she says. My character is very much a female Stephen King of that era &#8212; she&#8217;s a writer and very educated and went to Mount Holyoke, a very progressive school. I love that my character went there.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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