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Schitt’s Creek alum Annie Murphy is playing different “It Girl” connected tv successful her caller Freeform animated bid Praise Petey. Well, sorta. Praise Petey begins with Annie arsenic an NYC miss who has it each until her beingness comes crashing down, truthful she has to instrumentality implicit her dormant father’s small-town cult. Annie knows what it’s similar to play a quality who starts astatine the top, and falls to the bottom, from her six-season tally connected Schitt’s Creek. The 36-year-old histrion compared Praise Petey to Schitt’s Creek in an EXCLUSIVE interrogation with HollywoodLife that took spot anterior to the SAG-AFTRA strike.
“There are surely immoderate similarities successful those 2 shows,” Annie said. “But determination are jokes made successful Praise Petey that would person never seen the airy of time connected web tv successful Schitt’s Creek.”
Annie Murphy successful ‘Schitt’s Creek’ (Photo: CBC /Everett Collection)
The Emmy Award winner confirmed that she sings successful Praise Petey. Sounds similar a cleanable callback to her iconic “A Little Bit Alexis” show successful Schitt’s Creek! “I besides got to propulsion retired my vocal fry that I kept successful the closet for a fewer years,” Annie told HL. “So I got to bring that [out],” she added.
While Annie sees similarities betwixt her 2 drama shows, she’s not truthful definite however Petey would get on with Alexis Rose if they ever came face-to-face. “Alexis and Petey would either beryllium champion friends oregon mortal enemies,” she said.
Praise Petey (Photo: Freeform)
Praise Petey is not Annie’s archetypal animated project, but it’s decidedly 1 of her favorites frankincense acold successful her career. “It was specified a bizarrely, strange, and hilarious experience,” the Canadian histrion said astir the amusement which besides features Barry‘s Stephen Root and The Good Fight‘s Christine Baranski. “Anna Drezen, who created the show, her caput is simply a profoundly bizarre and fantastic place,” Annie added. “It truly pulls retired each the stops. The information that it’s animated means thing is imaginable and they’ve truly leaned into that. And it’s amusive origin it’s big humor. It’s precise big wit and I haven’t been capable to bash that before. So it was precise freeing.”
Annie besides confirmed to HL that she’d emotion to proceed doing dependable acting. “It’s truthful overmuch amusive and truthful antithetic from movie and TV acting,” she said. “When you sprout a play of TV, it’s 3 oregon 4 of 5 months of your life. So to beryllium isolated of a task I’m ace arrogant of and having lone done a fistful of hours to marque it is truly cool.”
Praise Petey premieres Friday, July 21st astatine 10:00 p.m. ET with 2 back-to-back episodes. Episodes are disposable adjacent time connected Hulu.
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