{"id":287415,"date":"2020-01-30T12:59:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T19:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1117866"},"modified":"2020-01-30T12:59:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T19:59:49","slug":"annie-murphy-had-3-in-the-bank-before-landing-schitts-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/annie-murphy-had-3-in-the-bank-before-landing-schitts-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Annie Murphy Had $3 in the Bank Before Landing Schitt&#8217;s Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019115\/rs_600x600-191205141046-600-9-schitts-creek-s6-ch-120519.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"50.273040752351\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"41.975548589342\">\n<p>Many people know <strong>Annie Murphy<\/strong> from her portrayal of <strong>Alexis Rose<\/strong> on <em>Schitt&#8217;s Creek<\/em>. However, the 33-year-old actress wasn&#8217;t always famous.<\/p>\n<p>Annie opened up about her struggles before&nbsp;the hit series during Wednesday&#8217;s episode of <em>The Kelly Clarkson Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just before <em>Schitt&#8217;s Creek<\/em>, things were quite bleak,&#8221; she told <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kelly_clarkson\">Kelly Clarkson<\/a><\/strong>. &#8220;My house had just burned down. I had, like, $3 in my bank account. I hadn&#8217;t worked in close to two years, and I had just blown my very first screen test.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Annie said she then found herself having &#8220;a very snotty cry&#8221; in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The universe was like, &#8216;Don&#8217;t do this anymore. This is not for you,'&#8221; she recalled.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, everything&nbsp;changed&nbsp;after she secured an audition for <em>Schitt&#8217;s Creek<\/em> two days later. Although, Annie didn&#8217;t just audition for the part of Alexis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I auditioned for Alexis and I got a call from <strong>Dan<\/strong> [<strong>Levy<\/strong>] after my first audition, asking me to also audition for Stevie,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2018\/04\/schitts-creek-annie-murphy-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she told <em>Vulture<\/em> in 2018<\/a>. &#8220;So, I ended up testing for both of those ladies, and it was super fun to be able to play different characters. But as soon as I met <strong>Emily<\/strong> [<strong>Hampshire<\/strong>, who plays Stevie], I was like,&nbsp;<em>Why on earth would these people entertain the idea of anyone else playing this part?&nbsp;<\/em>She blows it out of the water. I think a part of it was, I was a brunette when I auditioned. And <strong>Eugene<\/strong> [<strong>Levy<\/strong>] was having a really, really hard time wrapping his head around the fact that Alexis is blonde and Annie Murphy is brunette. He couldn&#8217;t quite get there, so Dan had to tape pictures of blonde hair on my picture. It finally got through to him, thank goodness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"28\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"1\">\n<p><em>Schitt&#8217;s Creek<\/em> is now in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1107237\/in-the-sixth-and-final-season-schitt-s-creek-is-going-out-on-top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its sixth and final season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>Fans can watch Annie star alongside Dan, Eugene and <strong>Catherine O&#8217;Hara<\/strong> Tuesday nights on Pop TV.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>To see Annie&#8217;s full interview\u2014including her performance of &#8220;A Little Bit Alexis&#8221;\u2014watch the videos.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1117866\/annie-murphy-had-3-in-the-bank-before-landing-schitt-s-creek?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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Annie opened up about her struggles before&nbsp;the hit series during Wednesday&#8217;s episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show. &#8220;Just before Schitt&#8217;s Creek, things were quite bleak,&#8221; she told Kelly Clarkson. &#8220;My house had just burned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-01 22:21:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}