January 6, 2020 • 42 mins
Everything has gone to Schitt on the WellsCast this week! Wells is hanging out with Emily Hampshire (Stevie from Schitt’s Creek) and we hear her origin story that brought her to one of the most beloved comedies on TV.
She tells us about how Professor Snape from Harry Potter taught her how to drive and how she lived in an actual closet before landing Schitt’s Creek!
Plus, we get an inside look on what she’s working on in the future!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Wells Cast with Wells Adams, an I
Heart Radio podcast. Dude, I am so freaking excited for
the show today, and I'll tell you why. There is
a show that is on Netflix right now that is
well one of the most popular shows on Netflix, and
we are going to have one of the stars from
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that show on this show. If you haven't seen Ship's Creek,
then well I hate you because it is one of
the best shows out there right now. It's winning tons
of awards. The cast is ridiculous. I mean, we're talking
Eugene Levy, we're talking Catherine O'Hara, we're talking Dan Levy,
and we're also talking Emily Hampshire. She plays Stevie on
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Ship's Creek and she is going to be on the
show today. Do we have a teaser for the last
episode or the last season. As lucky as I feel
to have met David, I also feel incredibly lucky to
be joining your family. Maybe there's something more out there
for me. Thank you. There is value in these motels.
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My family and I have been staying in a motel
for the past three years, and I wouldn't trade and
or stay there for anything. Oh anyways, I'm so freaking excited.
I love Stevie's character and I'm super pumped you get
actually meet the person who created it. So coming up
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in just a couple of minutes, Emily Hampshire from Ship's
Creek will be on the Wells Cast. Welcome back to
the Wells Cast, Wells hanging out in the burbank. I
heart Studios. So excited for today's guest. It's Emily Hampshure
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from the Oh Shits Creek. How are you good? How
are you good? Your voice sounds super cool right now? No,
it's really hot and I got this voice from the
Golden Globes parties. Okay, so I was at the Globes
last night. You don't have a sexy voice. Now you
have all the time. Oh yeah, this is I mean
you're in radio. So yeah, Emily HAPs air live on
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the Wealth guest. That's how every radio. Wait, so what
parties did you go to? Um? I went to in Style.
I was there. Why didn't we see each other? I
don't know. We probably did, Okay, probably because I was
at the food table and you weren't. Okay, okay, fair,
Um did you see Snoop Dogg? Yes? And Martha Stewart. Stewart, Yeah,
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oh my god, I love the way sounded. It sounds
like really great. I hope I never get better. Um yeah,
Martha Stewart, Okay, Snoop Dog. I didn't see him. Leonardo
DiCaprio was there, Yeah, yeah, did you see Joaquin Phoenix?
I didn't, so uh. My fiance and I were walking
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the carpet, congratulation, thank you so much, and so like,
this is how this is how this works, so for everyone,
for people I don't know, this is how this works.
When your fiance is famous, they're nice enough to let
you go do the carpet with or for cutesie pictures,
and then they say this thing, which is it sounds nice.
It says, hey, can we have a glam shot, which
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means he'll get the hell out of the unless it's
a fancy person that I want to show it. Yes,
so I was, I was told to get the hell
off the carpet, so we get glam shots. And then
so I'm I turned around. I'm laughing at it implies
that you're not glam But anyways, exactly, and I thought
I looked damn good by the way, I'm going to
see pictures. So then I saw him. I walk off
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the carpet and then the ark our friends are there,
So I'm laughing because I was like, I just got
kicked off the carpet. And then I turned around and
who's behind us in line is Joaquin Phoenix. So she
turns and sees him and she loses her but she's
stuck doing glamed hut. Yes. But and so then she
looks at Joaquin Phoenix and I think she doesn't know
what to do. Yeah, but as one would, so she
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bows to him, Oh my god, and he's holding his
golden globe, so he bows back, Oh my god. But
it looks like he's got a lightsaber. This is the
best image ever. So this morning she was like going
through like the Getty images, and the photo of her
bowing and him bowing but looking like he's like knighting
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her with a lightsaber is what she posted. And then
I posted the cutesie picture of us together, of course,
and she's also going to blow that one up and
put it in not the cuties ut picture, the lightsaber pture.
Put it in your your house. Do you get star struck?
You know? My makeup Arrs was asking me that before
She's like, who are you starting to see? And I
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I really don't. I was trying to think of someone
I think I would be um like seeing I don't know,
like paulsta Miss Anderson or something like a like a
director then um or I oh, actually no, I what
star struck? Once it was Jane Fonda. I'm a huge fan,
and we were on a plane together and I spent
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the entire plane ride writing this letter to her, and
there was turbulence and it was on the back of
like I had a scrap of paper. It was like
a letter from a crazy person. And I regret to
this day giving it. I'm so embarrassed that I did that,
But so Jane Fonda, It's just it was out of love.
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But so I was star struck there. But otherwise they
don't really Yeah, I don't like I like seeing like
Martha Stewart. That's cool stuff, But no, I don't do
you well, First of all, your in luck because Jane
found a huge fan of the show. So I'm dumb.
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Um do I do? I guess, like like Meryl Streep,
I feel like it's is someone that like I feel
like everyone gets darts or like Tom Hanks, is another one. Well,
you know, I actually met Tom Hanks at a party
once and he makes you not star struck. Him and
his wife are like they they are what everybody says,
like the nicest people. So I don't know how you
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could have that weird star struck e thing in front
of him like we're best friends were actually but like
I met him one he doesn't remember. I do because
I was star struck, but not only don't. Um, yeah,
oh well, but I was saying to my makeup bars,
I'm like, maybe, I guess maybe Leonardo DiCaprio, not thinking
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he would ever be there, and then he was there,
but I didn't meet him, so I didn't know if
I haven't not had the opportunity to find out, if
I would genuinely be star struck Leo. So maybe he
could call me up and we'll see Leo. Also huge
family kind of the show. Everyone's a fan of this show. UM.
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I don't know if you know what the premise of
this show is, um, And it's totally fine if you don't.
The idea is that I like to find out where
people came from. It's like an origin story because first
I think for a lot of people out there that
like admire celebrities um or famous people or whatever. Um,
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it's cool that like they know them when you know,
like you got on Chip's Creeks or Ship's Creek or
you know, twelve Monkeys or something like that. But I
think they're like, well, how did you get there? I
love listening. I'm gonna not that I haven't listened to well,
you know, Meryl and Shane. I just can't wait to
hear that origin story here. No, but that's so cool.
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I'm fascinated by that, especially because like, I'm from Canada
and I've been an actor since I was like twelve,
and in Canada there's definitely a community of actors that
you're like, it's very blue collar. It's workers and it's
not um. There isn't really much of a star system.
And if you do become known, you go to the States.
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So I like that aspect of of I know that
people who are overnight famous, it's not overnight for sure,
unless it actually was. It's funny. We had Paul Schaefer
on the show, a fellow Canadian. My god, I went
a very funny dinner with Paul Shaffer and Gene. They're
best friends. Yeah, it's funny because he was actually because
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they did um some musical like in Toronto way back
then high school, Like yeah, it was a got spell.
They started singing it. Yes, they started doing their parts.
It was amazing. It's so weird. A Eugene has all
these friends from Toronto, like Um, Martin Short and Steve Martino.
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He wasn't from Toronto, but they all kind of like
work together, but like in theater and musicals and with Catherine.
It's crazy. Yeah, I mean that that episode is crazy
because he talks about like doing theater in Toronto and
then all of them being like, well, we got to
go to New York and then they all go to
New York and then like SNL is happening and starting,
and so it's crazy. So you're you're from Canada. Where
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are you from? Exactly Montreal? Okay? And you said you
started acting when you were twelve. Yeah that was my
first like professional thing. Why did you want to get
into it? Um? It was kind of twofold. Um My
mom took me to see le A Miss and it
felt like I left the earth and I wanted to
be Eponine um not Cosette. I wanted to be the
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like you know, sad one. Um anyways, uh, and so
I wanted to do that. I was like obsessed with musicals,
but I'm not like a singer, dancer or whatever. And
then I joined this acting group and a teacher of
mine and to the show and said it was funny,
and it like changed my life. It kind of made
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me well maybe a little O c D. From that
point on, all I did was like acting. I wrote
a contract with myself that I will only spend one
hour a day in not acting activities. I highlighted entire
acting books, like so to the point where you did, yeah,
there there's no highlighting anymore, you have to re highlight um.
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And and so yeah, I just did acting. And then
a casting director saw me in one of those plays
and cast me in my first thing, Are You Afraid
of the Dark? Which stop it? Yeah, And I did
two episodes of our Afra the Dark, playing different girlfriend
number one and girlfriend number two, and they are now
on YouTube and people have been posting them. Dude, I
was obsessed with that goose bumps but also kind of scary,
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kind very scary when you're that age. Yes, well what's
very scary is it was my my first are you
Afraid of the Dark? Um? What I had to do
was go over to the boy's house and make out
with him. And I wanted to be very professional, and
I went up to the director. I remember, and I'm like, okay,
so do you want am a kiss with tongue a
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lot of it? Like this must have been horrifying him.
I was like, twelve, Okay, yeah, you're you're twelve years old.
Have you ever made out with someone before? God? Twelve?
What great is? Oh? Yeah, Corynado behind the church. Everybody
showed up to watch to watch it. Everyone showed up
to watch. It was like an event. It was like
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a fight, like, yeah, it was after detention. Um. And
because Corey was a bad, bad, hot guy, and everyone
in Corey in like the early nineties was was the
hot bad guy. Yes commando, yes, yes, oh my god,
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I have to send him this. He's still friends with them. Well.
What's weird is his wife actually instagrammed me and was like,
I'm married to Corey. He was your first kiss and
and she's so lovely and so we're friends now. Yeah, okay,
so you do no origin, that's my origin of my
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first kiss, yeah, which is played later on in the
episode We'll do rapid fire questions. It's always first kiss.
So now I gotta wrap it. Um, so you're doing
are you for the Dark? Yes? And so you go
up and talk to the director and it's like, okay,
so is this a peck? Is this French? Yeah? French?
And I described French as with tongue without I don't
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I don't remember his reaction whenever, but like anyways, I
can't even remember what ended up happening. But um, that
was my first part. And then from then on, oh,
I got and then I got my first movie, um
in Montreal, and the premiere of that movie was happening
in Toronto, and the producer was driving to the big
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Hollywood North and I was like, he's gonna come, and
it's sounds so like ridiculous story that I actually like
took a ride with him to Toronto and just stayed
and I, um, I still have the same agent that
I had then I was living in her basement, then
in Toronto working and um, yeah, we I was our
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first client and now we are still together. Now, Wow,
that is not the norm, not the norm. I mean,
I've I've had different other people along the way, but she's, um, yeah,
she's always been there. Okay, so hold on, I feel
like we jumped around. So you do, um are you
in the dark? And then you book a movie role? Um?
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How so how will your your twelve on? Are you
for the dark? How old are you when you booked
a movie role? I was definitely under I think I was. Okay,
I think I was fourteen. I'm going by because the
time I started dating that guy was under age and
nobody knew, and so I was fourteen. I'm sorry, my
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was this just the worst book I've ever received. It's
the worse than the look he gave me when I
started eating these Oh my goodness. Sorry. Wait, so you're
fourteen years old and you're you're living in your agents basement. Um, yeah,
it does sound I know it does. Um well, not
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full time like I was. I stayed there for a
bit until I could get an apartment, because you can't
get an apartment until you're like sixteen. So what are
your parents saying at this point? I don't think they
really had a choice in the matter. I was very
very much like I guess I realized later it's a
mental problem, but I was very like I'm doing this,
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this is what I'm doing, This is all I care about,
and and just so my opic and that nothing else
existed for me. So um yeah, if anything they were,
they were not unsupportive, like they couldn't have done anything.
Uh yeah, I think. Okay, so you're that's bonkers to
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me that your parents would be like all right, I
don't know. She wrote a contract with herself at twelve,
so we got we gotta honor it. Well. But I
was also I just made my own money. I think
I was also I was it bad teenager. I was
like making my own money, I'm going to get made
for my own rules and and like I just like
I very much wanted to. I mean always from when
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I was a kid, I wanted. I fantasized about making
the shed into my own place with running water, and
I like stole a paper towel roll and I put
it up and I'm like, I have a favorite towel roll,
and I live here alone, I can do what I
want em. That's a fort, but with imaginary running water
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and then a real life favorite towel roll. It's different.
And in Canada, forts for me out of snow. Okay,
so you go to the Hollywood of the North Toronto
with your agent. Well no, not with my Sorry I
that that was confusing. So I I was doing a
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Um I started in this acting group that would do
shows in Montreal and shows in Toronto. And when um
and I hadn't, the agent used to do these shows.
And then she sold her agency to my agent. Now
this is very calm, this is too co obligated. That's
why I didn't say it. But anyways, and so technically
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my current agent was I was forced upon her because
I was living in that aseman and then she took
over the agency and it was in a house at
the time, and so I was just like, I came
with the building. Um, but yes, because so there's this girl.
She comes to the building really want it's a really
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it's such a great price for this house. All you
have to do is feed the woman who lives upstairs
and yeah, um yeah. And so I just stay there.
When I think about it now, and I've spoken to
people about it before, like when I see sixteen year
old even, I'm like, oh my god, there's such a baby.
But I really thought I was an adult, and I
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I guess there is a thing about like when you're
making your own money, and as an actor, you don't
make like like monopoly money or even Canadian entire money
we have that you don't know what that is. Um
so yeah, I was. I just was very If I
was my own daughter, I wouldn't let me do that. Yeah,
it's it's kind of interesting because like my fiances and
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actress as well, and she was like a kid actor
and it's very similar stories. And her name is Sarah Highlands.
She's on the show Modern Family. Yeah yeah, um oh
she's lovely. Yeah, thank you, good work. Yes, I know
I lucked out, Uh yeah, um, but it's a it's
a it's a similar thing because like when I think back,
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like when I was sixteen, I wasn't driven to like
one thing. I was like, well, I don't know what I
I wanted to do. I had a radio show, but
I was like that's fun. But also like maybe I
want to make money, so I don't want to be
in right, you know. Like, um but I do think
that the common denominator between um like and you and
maybe other child actors is you're so like laser being
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focused on one thing that it doesn't really matter. Like
for me, I was drinking and smoking cigarettes, and like
they were like things that were I thought at that
time were more important, you know, whereas you guys like
we're doing this. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, And I noticed
with like I had friends who were actors at the
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time and who aren't actors anymore because they could do
more important things in the world. And but like I
didn't even graduate at high school, like I left and
went except Entern Entertainment Tonight, Canada took me back to
high school once and they had my picture up and
pretended I did. So yeah it was great. Yeah, well
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because you take those before you graduate, and I didn't.
I left before then. Um, but yeah, so it was
definitely for me laser focus, and I do think there's
something to be said about that, like if you don't
have a thing to fall back on, you don't fall back.
And like I've only ever been an actor, like that's
how I've made I've never had a job job, which
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worries me because there's been times where it's been tough,
but I've only ever like had I had cashier training
for three days for a movie. I did a target.
I learned how to do those things, swipe the things
all my fantasies are like having a cubicle, having a
lunch hour, like I love that stuff. So yeah, I've
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never that's it. That's all. What was your what was
the role that you felt like was your kind of
big break? Um. I feel like I've had different milestone breaks,
like um My, my first the first movie that I
did that went to tiff Toronto International Film Festival was
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um how was a big break At the time. It
was like me and Sean Aston starring in a movie
and like nobody saw that movie. But at the time
that was big. And I remember when I did UM
then I got Uh. I think they were all little,
little kind of movies along the way. Ultimately Ship's Creek
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has been the thing. But what I like is that
all along the way there's been little steps up. So
now when I have I don't know, if I go
to can or um some festival, it's not like I've
done this before so many times when nobody like notices
or anything, so you can kind of practice and it's
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not so crazy. Um. But yeah, I think there was
a movie Snowcake I did with um Alan Rickman and
and Sigourney Weaver, Um and Alan Uh like remained like
I had, like I don't know, six days on that movie.
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It was a really short thing, but it was just
me and Alan in a car. And he from that
point on would like call me at very least once
a month check in see how I am. I kept wondering,
like what's the catchy or why is he being so nice?
And every time you come to l A, he'd write
me to broom here I'd see him, and then up
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until I saw him a week before he died. Um,
I went to this play with him, and I realized
after he died, when people were talking about him, that
that he was just like that with everyone, like he
was he time for because I heard his castmates on
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the Harry Potter things talking about him and and he
was that kind of guys. So I mean when I'm
some weird tangent. But the point was that that was
a step where he I remember when I moved to
l A and I didn't know how to drive. He
like set me up with he got me friends, you know,
like to help me and like to teach me how
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to like go into the studio thing. And I was
very scared of driving at the time here. So that
and then a movie called Cosmopolis, which was David Cronenberg movie.
That was a big step in terms of um, I
mean the cast was insane. And yeah, it also took
me to can for the first time. Um. And so
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it was all these little like step up things. And
then it's funny because before Ship's Creek was the first
time in my life that I I didn't work for
like almost almost a year. I was starting to be like,
oh my god, what am I going to do? My
first thought was obviously prostitution, um, because I've never done
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anything else. Um, I mean been acting then acting Yeah,
no thanks um. But so yeah, it was actually really scary.
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I just gotten divorced. I had literally I had eight
hundred dollars in my account, and I was moving into
my friend's closet. Um it's a walking closet. She had
a bed in it. So it was really cool. Um.
But and then um, like I got a call for
the audition for Shifts Creek and got that changed my life.
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Um because well basically because I didn't I wasn't living anywhere.
I just like divorce had my story unit was really
nice story unit. It was very clean um and um,
but then I got that in the minute. I went
to Toronto. Then I auditioned like two weeks later for
twelve Monkeys and got that and my agent had done
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my Canadian agent who had to take me. Um. She
had done an amazing thing with my contract for Ship's Creek.
Was that like when it was like, uh, just a
Canadian show at the time, and this kind of thing
about Netflix and everything wasn't really happening then. So she
was like, you know, I don't want you to just
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do a Canadian show that would only be on the
CBC and be stuck in that. And so she somehow
made it so I could do another show if it
didn't conflict. Um, and I was the only one who
was allowed to do and like, I don't know, she's
she's really good, um, And so I was allowed to
do that show. It ultimately did conflict. In the last
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season of twelve Monkeys, I shot ships during the day.
I would take a van to shoot twelve Monkeys at
night and then go back two ships in the morning.
The best time in my life. Everyone was so nice
to me, like the A D S of you, like here,
we've made you bet you have fifteen minutes, no way, Yeah,
it was amazing. Okay, I want to take a quick break,
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and then I want no no, no, no, no no,
because we gotta play ads and stuff. Okayy, yeah, you
got some Melano cookie ye yeah. But when we come back,
I really want to dive into Ship's Creeks. I'm a
huge fan of that. Okay, oh good, you've seen this.
Everyone's seen the show back on the Wells cast Ami
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hamshirret from Ship's Creek. On the show, she plays Stevie.
If you haven't watched the show, then I don't know
what the hell is wrong with you. It's one of
the biggest shows out there right now. Um, I want
to jump into ships Creek because, as with all things American,
we were way behind the curve on this. So was
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it huge because it's huge in American was it huge
in Canada? And then someone was like, hey, what about
what about this show up? That's a greater boot. Um,
you know, it was big in Canada, but like as
biggest things get in Canada, it wasn't. I mean I
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was actually kind of surprised, well not surprised, I mean,
it's just like it was. It was one of the
big shows in Canada, but that's that's kind of like
everything on the CBC is like a big show in Canada. Um.
But no, there was definitely a time when it went
from being kind of an um inside industry thing where
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there was a lot of people in the industry who
were watching it, and I would say they liked it
and stuff too. I came back after Christmas one time
and like went into bad math and beyond, and it's
a whole different experience for me. It's like it was everywhere,
and I do think it was there was something political
about it. It felt like people there was bad times
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and then people needed something good and goodhearted and not
cheesy good like it's genuinely funny. But it's also like,
I mean, Dan's decision, I can't say the word decision
all of a sudden, a decision to make UM, to
make ships creak a place where there's no homophobia. I
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think it's such a Maverick move UM, because I would
think if you wanted to address an issue, you would
be like, UM, make them have somebody who's homophobic and
deal with it. And but no, he made this world
where it just doesn't exist and it's great, and so
I feel like there's so much of that goodness that
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the show puts out that I think people need it
at the time. That's my guests. Yeah. Well, and also
I don't want to pigeonhole all small towns, but generally
really small towns, at least in these United States, they
are less um, I don't know liberal about because you're
not exposed to as much. And I think what's so
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great about that too is Dan was like, I never
want ships Creek or the townspeople to be the butt
of a joke, which is so interesting, Like to even
think that far ahead. It's such it's not usually done
like that. Usually you'd be making fun of like, uh,
the towny Stevie who just stated, I mean I make
fun of yeah, So um no, I think he treated
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everything with such dignity and yet it's still super funny.
So I imagine I'm not sure, but I imagine that
Gene is like acting royalty in Canada. Yes, him and Catherine. Yeah.
Um so did you sign on the show, like, let's
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go to the beginning of the show. Did you sign
on the show because they were all a part of it,
or did you read a script that you were like
holy Ship's Creek, this is funny. I signed on because
I was poor and I had no place to considering
prostitution at some point. But also I was like, thank
god this is the thing that came along, because if
it was porn, I probably would have taken it. Um
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So No. I actually like at the time, I had
been in l A and I suddenly got this like
anxiety auditioning. I was breaking out in hives, and so
I didn't want to I bang that sorry. Um, I didn't.
I couldn't go into auditions, and I told my agent,
I'll just put myself on tape. And Ship's Creak came
along and she's like, go in the room. They're Canadian,
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they're nice. Um. So I went in. I auditioned and
then I got a call back. And I had actually
worked with Katherine before. We'd done a movie together and
she helped me get my Green Guard. She was so
love kind of like Ellen Rickman. She was so lovely
to me. Um. But I didn't. I we never saw
a script. I just all I knew was what I
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read in the auditions, the sides, and I knew that
it was Katherine and Eugene. I'm a huge like waiting
for government is one of my favorite movies. UM. So yeah,
I signed on because of that as well. UM, but
I didn't. It really was and I hate to say,
just a Canadian show, but it just means that, like
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only Canada on the CBC was going to see this
show at the time, and then the world changed. Um
so yeah, that's why I did. Like the knowledge of
the show only being in like on Canada's air take
away some of the anxiety of it for you, um
a negative or positive looking at it? Um. I mean
(31:02):
from me, it was and there was no anxiety of it.
For me. I'm more anxiety about auditioning than working. Well.
I want to go back to um the cast because
the cast, Like I mean, I'm not the one making
these decisions, but if you told me that Eugene Levy
and Cathy O'Hara and Dan We're going to be on
(31:23):
a show, I would be like, Okay, let's I'll do
five seasons right now on Amazon Prime. Let's go, you know.
So it's just bonkers to me that it was just
a Canadian you know, they pitched it to all kinds
of networks in the States and they ended up and
nobody really took it, and they ended up in Canada.
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I think also because they got a lot more control
that way, they were allowed to do exactly what they wanted,
which I think is so great because knowing I was
doing a show that had a studio behind it at
the same time, and there's just so many cooks and
with this show, this was Dan, like really Dan. And
also though when you say, like signed onto a show
(32:06):
with Dan Eugene and Catherine, like Dan wasn't Dan at
the time, Like you didn't know that he was this
amazing as a creator and writer and like his hands
are in everything like from wardrobe to all the writing. Um.
So yeah, So it's interesting now that America loves it
(32:27):
more than Canada, more than Canada. Um when yeah, I
know that, Like they tried to sell it here, So
now that America loves it, yeah, yeah, you didn't want to.
That is a good the most American thing, right, That's amazing. Um.
(32:51):
So this is the last season, Yes, how do you
feel about it? Well, I've had a lot of time
to feel a lot of things about it. We at
we finished in June. Um and then n as a
wrap gift, got um got us a villa in Tuscany
to say goodbye at which was really I mean not generous. Um.
(33:16):
So we ended the show and what's been great as
we've been doing these tours so we get to see
each other and kind of it didn't feel like it
was ripping up date off saying goodbye. UM, but it
was sad and I think all of us didn't believe
it at first. We were all like, oh, he's just
he's not doing this, but he is, and it was
(33:38):
Now I think it's the greatest thing ever because it
really like now that I know how it ends and everything,
and he always envisioned this and and so many shows
also don't get the chance to even know if they're
going to end, so like they just get canceled. This
he has the opportunity to end the show on his terms,
but also like in a way that respects all the
(34:00):
actors in the audience. And it's it's definitely a satisfying ending. Yeah,
I mean you're gonna cry, but you're gonna laugh too.
Are you satisfied like that it's over? Would you would
you keep on going knowing the ending? Um? Okay, well
I would keep I would go for one year just
(34:21):
we could get paid that kind of money that you
get paid when people want you to do this show
again because we you know, we were yeah, yeah, we
worked in Canada. We made Canadian dollars, which are equivalent
to seashells. So um yeah, I would go maybe one more,
but but dance. Dan's right like the way it ended,
(34:42):
And I remember him saying to me, He's like, you know,
these a lot of shows go on forever, and Stevie
would end up doing being a nurse somewhere at something.
How would you like that? And I'm like, I love
that love, but um, you know it's the right thing
to do. I feel really good about it and how
it's ended. It's so I think we all love our
characters and love all of all of each other's characters,
(35:05):
and they've been done right by so it's nice now
going to like individual actors because I mean, like the
show is just so so funny. Who is the funniest?
Like on set? And then offset no, one's really funny.
(35:29):
That's true, Um, you know what, Like I find Eugene
the funniest, but because when he's not being like, there's
this thing where he'll just like keep talking and keep talking,
and and the dynamic between Dan and Eugene as father
and son is hilarious to me. So I find that
(35:49):
very funny. Okay, so explain that though, because that is
very interesting. Well, um, okay, here's a great example. I
was doing a scene with Eugene and Dan came over
to give him a note, and Eugene was like, okay,
and he went and he took the note, and then
he looked up to see Dan watching to be like
did I do it? And Dan's like on his phone texting,
(36:12):
and Eugene's like but and and and Dan's like, yeah, yeah,
it was great. Great. And so there's there's that dynamic
where sometimes there's like a role reversal in terms of um, yeah,
I don't know, it's it's just it's it's sweet. Eugene
is so sweet. Funny, Um yeah, who's you know, who's
(36:35):
the funniest. It's like when we go on tour and
we play games, then we're all pretty funny, like we
do impressions of each other and um, so Catherine is
hilarious at that. But I would say Chris is probably
the one who makes everyone laugh because he's so crazy
and he'll just start He really gets Eugene. Like, there
(36:56):
are times when we haven't been able to finish a
scene because Chris has made Eugene laugh. Yeah. Um So
now that it's ending and everyone's very sad, what do
you what's happening next for you? Um? Well, I just um,
I did this movie that I It was my first
(37:17):
time executive producing, which was exciting. It's it's a horror movie. Um.
But it was weird because the script came to me
and usually I think when something an offer comes to me,
it's gonna be terrible, especially a horror movie. UM. But
I read it, I'm like, this is so good. Um,
it's so well written, and but I wanted it to
be done like really the way I wanted it to
(37:39):
be done. So I was like, all be on this
if I can executive produce it. And so just finished
that and it's in post and it's kind of like
hereditary in that kind of way. Um my voice is
getting better good time tonight. Yeah, Oh my god, that's
gonna be That's my next Joe. That's what we're working on.
(38:02):
Um No, and I'm I'm developing this thing that I'm
not allowed to talk about yet. But it's like the
most exciting thing that's ever happened to me in my life. Okay,
well thanks for that. What's the name of the of
the horror film? It's called home? Okay, and do you
have is there a distribution method? We just there cutting
(38:24):
it still so it's yeah, okay, um, Emily hasher Thank
you so much for stopping by the Wells cash. Thank
you so much. I want to do radio this. You
get to snack, you get to yeah, thank you so much.
What we get paid in? What's worse than Canadian dollars? Seashells?
Um like gift certificate? Yep, that's what actually, actually, that's
(38:47):
what it is. Guys. If you haven't um seen Ship's Creek,
it's on Netflix and go watch all the seasons because
the final season um is premiering on tomorrow. Holy crap, yes, um, well,
let's do Rabbi Fire real quick. Sorry sorry sorry sorry,
Oh it's tomorrow on Pop because some people, like I
(39:11):
know a lot of people watch it on Netflix. But
if you're first first responder, No, you're a first what
are those people who go by the apple things? You're
a first whatever? Your first person? You watch it on Pop? Okay,
I like first responder. Yeah, okay, there's an emergency rapid
(39:32):
fire questions with Emily Hamshi. This might get dirty though,
this isn't live right because sometimes I have sexual to rance.
What's wonderful? Uh we already did kiss? We know it
was uh first concert. I need to Franco. Oh my god,
I'm such a lesbian. I didn't know then, though I'm
(39:54):
sure I did it, which is so dumb. Now I'm like,
if all the signs were there, first job, Uh oh yeah,
are you for the dark first car? Oh oh, Volkswagen
soft used that Alan Rickman taught you how to drive? Yeah? Yeah,
(40:16):
By the way, that is the that snape taught you
how to drive is the funniest part of this whole podcast.
By the way, celebrity you've been mistaken for Oh oh
that Taryn Manning girl, Like, oh when Parker Posey used
to get that that's in front. Actually it's like a
chubbier Barker Posey. Um, Canada's Barker Posey. So take it
(40:38):
as a compliment. Biggest pet peeve loud noises, loud noises,
not not the like, yeah, that's not really a pet
peeve though. Oh chewing sounds yeah, oh my god, eating
like bagel and cream cheese, like the moist and the
(40:59):
and people deal with it. I broke up with somebody
because of that. I wish you were recording. Do we
have audio? I was like, I'm so I can't believe
I'm doing this, but I was so hungry. Who would
barely out of jail? My agent, Danny. Last person you
texted on your phone? Oh jesus, um can I look?
(41:21):
It has to be rabbit. Who was it? Who was
who was this person? Bobby Burke? Okay, do you know
Bobby Burke is that's impressive. He's from Queer Eye, that
guy who does the designing. And I like that. That
was an impressive That was good. And my fiance is
(41:43):
so mad at me right now for being like, who's
the most famous person in your phone? I'm so Corney Weaver.
That is good. Emily Hanford, thank you so much for
coming up. Do you want to work here? Subscribe to
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This is the Wells Cast with Wells Adams, an I
Heart Radio podcast. Dude, I am so freaking excited for
the show today, and I'll tell you why. There is
a show that is on Netflix right now that is
well one of the most popular shows on Netflix, and
we are going to have one of the stars from
(00:23):
that show on this show. If you haven't seen Ship's Creek,
then well I hate you because it is one of
the best shows out there right now. It's winning tons
of awards. The cast is ridiculous. I mean, we're talking
Eugene Levy, we're talking Catherine O'Hara, we're talking Dan Levy,
and we're also talking Emily Hampshire. She plays Stevie on
(00:47):
Ship's Creek and she is going to be on the
show today. Do we have a teaser for the last
episode or the last season. As lucky as I feel
to have met David, I also feel incredibly lucky to
be joining your family. Maybe there's something more out there
for me. Thank you. There is value in these motels.
(01:12):
My family and I have been staying in a motel
for the past three years, and I wouldn't trade and
or stay there for anything. Oh anyways, I'm so freaking excited.
I love Stevie's character and I'm super pumped you get
actually meet the person who created it. So coming up
(01:35):
in just a couple of minutes, Emily Hampshire from Ship's
Creek will be on the Wells Cast. Welcome back to
the Wells Cast, Wells hanging out in the burbank. I
heart Studios. So excited for today's guest. It's Emily Hampshure
(01:58):
from the Oh Shits Creek. How are you good? How
are you good? Your voice sounds super cool right now? No,
it's really hot and I got this voice from the
Golden Globes parties. Okay, so I was at the Globes
last night. You don't have a sexy voice. Now you
have all the time. Oh yeah, this is I mean
you're in radio. So yeah, Emily HAPs air live on
(02:22):
the Wealth guest. That's how every radio. Wait, so what
parties did you go to? Um? I went to in Style.
I was there. Why didn't we see each other? I
don't know. We probably did, Okay, probably because I was
at the food table and you weren't. Okay, okay, fair,
Um did you see Snoop Dogg? Yes? And Martha Stewart. Stewart, Yeah,
(02:44):
oh my god, I love the way sounded. It sounds
like really great. I hope I never get better. Um yeah,
Martha Stewart, Okay, Snoop Dog. I didn't see him. Leonardo
DiCaprio was there, Yeah, yeah, did you see Joaquin Phoenix?
I didn't, so uh. My fiance and I were walking
(03:05):
the carpet, congratulation, thank you so much, and so like,
this is how this is how this works, so for everyone,
for people I don't know, this is how this works.
When your fiance is famous, they're nice enough to let
you go do the carpet with or for cutesie pictures,
and then they say this thing, which is it sounds nice.
It says, hey, can we have a glam shot, which
(03:26):
means he'll get the hell out of the unless it's
a fancy person that I want to show it. Yes,
so I was, I was told to get the hell
off the carpet, so we get glam shots. And then
so I'm I turned around. I'm laughing at it implies
that you're not glam But anyways, exactly, and I thought
I looked damn good by the way, I'm going to
see pictures. So then I saw him. I walk off
(03:47):
the carpet and then the ark our friends are there,
So I'm laughing because I was like, I just got
kicked off the carpet. And then I turned around and
who's behind us in line is Joaquin Phoenix. So she
turns and sees him and she loses her but she's
stuck doing glamed hut. Yes. But and so then she
looks at Joaquin Phoenix and I think she doesn't know
what to do. Yeah, but as one would, so she
(04:10):
bows to him, Oh my god, and he's holding his
golden globe, so he bows back, Oh my god. But
it looks like he's got a lightsaber. This is the
best image ever. So this morning she was like going
through like the Getty images, and the photo of her
bowing and him bowing but looking like he's like knighting
(04:32):
her with a lightsaber is what she posted. And then
I posted the cutesie picture of us together, of course,
and she's also going to blow that one up and
put it in not the cuties ut picture, the lightsaber pture.
Put it in your your house. Do you get star struck?
You know? My makeup Arrs was asking me that before
She's like, who are you starting to see? And I
(04:52):
I really don't. I was trying to think of someone
I think I would be um like seeing I don't know,
like paulsta Miss Anderson or something like a like a
director then um or I oh, actually no, I what
star struck? Once it was Jane Fonda. I'm a huge fan,
and we were on a plane together and I spent
(05:14):
the entire plane ride writing this letter to her, and
there was turbulence and it was on the back of
like I had a scrap of paper. It was like
a letter from a crazy person. And I regret to
this day giving it. I'm so embarrassed that I did that,
But so Jane Fonda, It's just it was out of love.
(05:35):
But so I was star struck there. But otherwise they
don't really Yeah, I don't like I like seeing like
Martha Stewart. That's cool stuff, But no, I don't do
you well, First of all, your in luck because Jane
found a huge fan of the show. So I'm dumb.
(05:56):
Um do I do? I guess, like like Meryl Streep,
I feel like it's is someone that like I feel
like everyone gets darts or like Tom Hanks, is another one. Well,
you know, I actually met Tom Hanks at a party
once and he makes you not star struck. Him and
his wife are like they they are what everybody says,
like the nicest people. So I don't know how you
(06:18):
could have that weird star struck e thing in front
of him like we're best friends were actually but like
I met him one he doesn't remember. I do because
I was star struck, but not only don't. Um, yeah,
oh well, but I was saying to my makeup bars,
I'm like, maybe, I guess maybe Leonardo DiCaprio, not thinking
(06:40):
he would ever be there, and then he was there,
but I didn't meet him, so I didn't know if
I haven't not had the opportunity to find out, if
I would genuinely be star struck Leo. So maybe he
could call me up and we'll see Leo. Also huge
family kind of the show. Everyone's a fan of this show. UM.
(07:00):
I don't know if you know what the premise of
this show is, um, And it's totally fine if you don't.
The idea is that I like to find out where
people came from. It's like an origin story because first
I think for a lot of people out there that
like admire celebrities um or famous people or whatever. Um,
(07:22):
it's cool that like they know them when you know,
like you got on Chip's Creeks or Ship's Creek or
you know, twelve Monkeys or something like that. But I
think they're like, well, how did you get there? I
love listening. I'm gonna not that I haven't listened to well,
you know, Meryl and Shane. I just can't wait to
hear that origin story here. No, but that's so cool.
(07:43):
I'm fascinated by that, especially because like, I'm from Canada
and I've been an actor since I was like twelve,
and in Canada there's definitely a community of actors that
you're like, it's very blue collar. It's workers and it's
not um. There isn't really much of a star system.
And if you do become known, you go to the States.
(08:04):
So I like that aspect of of I know that
people who are overnight famous, it's not overnight for sure,
unless it actually was. It's funny. We had Paul Schaefer
on the show, a fellow Canadian. My god, I went
a very funny dinner with Paul Shaffer and Gene. They're
best friends. Yeah, it's funny because he was actually because
(08:25):
they did um some musical like in Toronto way back
then high school, Like yeah, it was a got spell.
They started singing it. Yes, they started doing their parts.
It was amazing. It's so weird. A Eugene has all
these friends from Toronto, like Um, Martin Short and Steve Martino.
(08:48):
He wasn't from Toronto, but they all kind of like
work together, but like in theater and musicals and with Catherine.
It's crazy. Yeah, I mean that that episode is crazy
because he talks about like doing theater in Toronto and
then all of them being like, well, we got to
go to New York and then they all go to
New York and then like SNL is happening and starting,
and so it's crazy. So you're you're from Canada. Where
(09:11):
are you from? Exactly Montreal? Okay? And you said you
started acting when you were twelve. Yeah that was my
first like professional thing. Why did you want to get
into it? Um? It was kind of twofold. Um My
mom took me to see le A Miss and it
felt like I left the earth and I wanted to
be Eponine um not Cosette. I wanted to be the
(09:34):
like you know, sad one. Um anyways, uh, and so
I wanted to do that. I was like obsessed with musicals,
but I'm not like a singer, dancer or whatever. And
then I joined this acting group and a teacher of
mine and to the show and said it was funny,
and it like changed my life. It kind of made
(09:56):
me well maybe a little O c D. From that
point on, all I did was like acting. I wrote
a contract with myself that I will only spend one
hour a day in not acting activities. I highlighted entire
acting books, like so to the point where you did, yeah,
there there's no highlighting anymore, you have to re highlight um.
(10:18):
And and so yeah, I just did acting. And then
a casting director saw me in one of those plays
and cast me in my first thing, Are You Afraid
of the Dark? Which stop it? Yeah, And I did
two episodes of our Afra the Dark, playing different girlfriend
number one and girlfriend number two, and they are now
on YouTube and people have been posting them. Dude, I
was obsessed with that goose bumps but also kind of scary,
(10:44):
kind very scary when you're that age. Yes, well what's
very scary is it was my my first are you
Afraid of the Dark? Um? What I had to do
was go over to the boy's house and make out
with him. And I wanted to be very professional, and
I went up to the director. I remember, and I'm like, okay,
so do you want am a kiss with tongue a
(11:05):
lot of it? Like this must have been horrifying him.
I was like, twelve, Okay, yeah, you're you're twelve years old.
Have you ever made out with someone before? God? Twelve?
What great is? Oh? Yeah, Corynado behind the church. Everybody
showed up to watch to watch it. Everyone showed up
to watch. It was like an event. It was like
(11:25):
a fight, like, yeah, it was after detention. Um. And
because Corey was a bad, bad, hot guy, and everyone
in Corey in like the early nineties was was the
hot bad guy. Yes commando, yes, yes, oh my god,
(11:46):
I have to send him this. He's still friends with them. Well.
What's weird is his wife actually instagrammed me and was like,
I'm married to Corey. He was your first kiss and
and she's so lovely and so we're friends now. Yeah, okay,
so you do no origin, that's my origin of my
(12:12):
first kiss, yeah, which is played later on in the
episode We'll do rapid fire questions. It's always first kiss.
So now I gotta wrap it. Um, so you're doing
are you for the Dark? Yes? And so you go
up and talk to the director and it's like, okay,
so is this a peck? Is this French? Yeah? French?
And I described French as with tongue without I don't
(12:34):
I don't remember his reaction whenever, but like anyways, I
can't even remember what ended up happening. But um, that
was my first part. And then from then on, oh,
I got and then I got my first movie, um
in Montreal, and the premiere of that movie was happening
in Toronto, and the producer was driving to the big
(12:55):
Hollywood North and I was like, he's gonna come, and
it's sounds so like ridiculous story that I actually like
took a ride with him to Toronto and just stayed
and I, um, I still have the same agent that
I had then I was living in her basement, then
in Toronto working and um, yeah, we I was our
(13:19):
first client and now we are still together. Now, Wow,
that is not the norm, not the norm. I mean,
I've I've had different other people along the way, but she's, um, yeah,
she's always been there. Okay, so hold on, I feel
like we jumped around. So you do, um are you
in the dark? And then you book a movie role? Um?
(13:39):
How so how will your your twelve on? Are you
for the dark? How old are you when you booked
a movie role? I was definitely under I think I was. Okay,
I think I was fourteen. I'm going by because the
time I started dating that guy was under age and
nobody knew, and so I was fourteen. I'm sorry, my
(14:04):
was this just the worst book I've ever received. It's
the worse than the look he gave me when I
started eating these Oh my goodness. Sorry. Wait, so you're
fourteen years old and you're you're living in your agents basement. Um, yeah,
it does sound I know it does. Um well, not
(14:27):
full time like I was. I stayed there for a
bit until I could get an apartment, because you can't
get an apartment until you're like sixteen. So what are
your parents saying at this point? I don't think they
really had a choice in the matter. I was very
very much like I guess I realized later it's a
mental problem, but I was very like I'm doing this,
(14:49):
this is what I'm doing, This is all I care about,
and and just so my opic and that nothing else
existed for me. So um yeah, if anything they were,
they were not unsupportive, like they couldn't have done anything.
Uh yeah, I think. Okay, so you're that's bonkers to
(15:10):
me that your parents would be like all right, I
don't know. She wrote a contract with herself at twelve,
so we got we gotta honor it. Well. But I
was also I just made my own money. I think
I was also I was it bad teenager. I was
like making my own money, I'm going to get made
for my own rules and and like I just like
I very much wanted to. I mean always from when
(15:33):
I was a kid, I wanted. I fantasized about making
the shed into my own place with running water, and
I like stole a paper towel roll and I put
it up and I'm like, I have a favorite towel roll,
and I live here alone, I can do what I
want em. That's a fort, but with imaginary running water
(15:53):
and then a real life favorite towel roll. It's different.
And in Canada, forts for me out of snow. Okay,
so you go to the Hollywood of the North Toronto
with your agent. Well no, not with my Sorry I
that that was confusing. So I I was doing a
(16:16):
Um I started in this acting group that would do
shows in Montreal and shows in Toronto. And when um
and I hadn't, the agent used to do these shows.
And then she sold her agency to my agent. Now
this is very calm, this is too co obligated. That's
why I didn't say it. But anyways, and so technically
(16:39):
my current agent was I was forced upon her because
I was living in that aseman and then she took
over the agency and it was in a house at
the time, and so I was just like, I came
with the building. Um, but yes, because so there's this girl.
She comes to the building really want it's a really
(17:03):
it's such a great price for this house. All you
have to do is feed the woman who lives upstairs
and yeah, um yeah. And so I just stay there.
When I think about it now, and I've spoken to
people about it before, like when I see sixteen year
old even, I'm like, oh my god, there's such a baby.
But I really thought I was an adult, and I
(17:26):
I guess there is a thing about like when you're
making your own money, and as an actor, you don't
make like like monopoly money or even Canadian entire money
we have that you don't know what that is. Um
so yeah, I was. I just was very If I
was my own daughter, I wouldn't let me do that. Yeah,
it's it's kind of interesting because like my fiances and
(17:49):
actress as well, and she was like a kid actor
and it's very similar stories. And her name is Sarah Highlands.
She's on the show Modern Family. Yeah yeah, um oh
she's lovely. Yeah, thank you, good work. Yes, I know
I lucked out, Uh yeah, um, but it's a it's
a it's a similar thing because like when I think back,
(18:10):
like when I was sixteen, I wasn't driven to like
one thing. I was like, well, I don't know what I
I wanted to do. I had a radio show, but
I was like that's fun. But also like maybe I
want to make money, so I don't want to be
in right, you know. Like, um but I do think
that the common denominator between um like and you and
maybe other child actors is you're so like laser being
(18:31):
focused on one thing that it doesn't really matter. Like
for me, I was drinking and smoking cigarettes, and like
they were like things that were I thought at that
time were more important, you know, whereas you guys like
we're doing this. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, And I noticed
with like I had friends who were actors at the
(18:52):
time and who aren't actors anymore because they could do
more important things in the world. And but like I
didn't even graduate at high school, like I left and
went except Entern Entertainment Tonight, Canada took me back to
high school once and they had my picture up and
pretended I did. So yeah it was great. Yeah, well
(19:13):
because you take those before you graduate, and I didn't.
I left before then. Um, but yeah, so it was
definitely for me laser focus, and I do think there's
something to be said about that, like if you don't
have a thing to fall back on, you don't fall back.
And like I've only ever been an actor, like that's
how I've made I've never had a job job, which
(19:37):
worries me because there's been times where it's been tough,
but I've only ever like had I had cashier training
for three days for a movie. I did a target.
I learned how to do those things, swipe the things
all my fantasies are like having a cubicle, having a
lunch hour, like I love that stuff. So yeah, I've
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never that's it. That's all. What was your what was
the role that you felt like was your kind of
big break? Um. I feel like I've had different milestone breaks,
like um My, my first the first movie that I
did that went to tiff Toronto International Film Festival was
(20:19):
um how was a big break At the time. It
was like me and Sean Aston starring in a movie
and like nobody saw that movie. But at the time
that was big. And I remember when I did UM
then I got Uh. I think they were all little,
little kind of movies along the way. Ultimately Ship's Creek
(20:41):
has been the thing. But what I like is that
all along the way there's been little steps up. So
now when I have I don't know, if I go
to can or um some festival, it's not like I've
done this before so many times when nobody like notices
or anything, so you can kind of practice and it's
(21:02):
not so crazy. Um. But yeah, I think there was
a movie Snowcake I did with um Alan Rickman and
and Sigourney Weaver, Um and Alan Uh like remained like
I had, like I don't know, six days on that movie.
(21:22):
It was a really short thing, but it was just
me and Alan in a car. And he from that
point on would like call me at very least once
a month check in see how I am. I kept wondering,
like what's the catchy or why is he being so nice?
And every time you come to l A, he'd write
me to broom here I'd see him, and then up
(21:44):
until I saw him a week before he died. Um,
I went to this play with him, and I realized
after he died, when people were talking about him, that
that he was just like that with everyone, like he
was he time for because I heard his castmates on
(22:05):
the Harry Potter things talking about him and and he
was that kind of guys. So I mean when I'm
some weird tangent. But the point was that that was
a step where he I remember when I moved to
l A and I didn't know how to drive. He
like set me up with he got me friends, you know,
like to help me and like to teach me how
(22:27):
to like go into the studio thing. And I was
very scared of driving at the time here. So that
and then a movie called Cosmopolis, which was David Cronenberg movie.
That was a big step in terms of um, I
mean the cast was insane. And yeah, it also took
me to can for the first time. Um. And so
(22:49):
it was all these little like step up things. And
then it's funny because before Ship's Creek was the first
time in my life that I I didn't work for
like almost almost a year. I was starting to be like,
oh my god, what am I going to do? My
first thought was obviously prostitution, um, because I've never done
(23:13):
anything else. Um, I mean been acting then acting Yeah,
no thanks um. But so yeah, it was actually really scary.
(23:33):
I just gotten divorced. I had literally I had eight
hundred dollars in my account, and I was moving into
my friend's closet. Um it's a walking closet. She had
a bed in it. So it was really cool. Um.
But and then um, like I got a call for
the audition for Shifts Creek and got that changed my life.
(23:55):
Um because well basically because I didn't I wasn't living anywhere.
I just like divorce had my story unit was really
nice story unit. It was very clean um and um,
but then I got that in the minute. I went
to Toronto. Then I auditioned like two weeks later for
twelve Monkeys and got that and my agent had done
(24:18):
my Canadian agent who had to take me. Um. She
had done an amazing thing with my contract for Ship's Creek.
Was that like when it was like, uh, just a
Canadian show at the time, and this kind of thing
about Netflix and everything wasn't really happening then. So she
was like, you know, I don't want you to just
(24:38):
do a Canadian show that would only be on the
CBC and be stuck in that. And so she somehow
made it so I could do another show if it
didn't conflict. Um, and I was the only one who
was allowed to do and like, I don't know, she's
she's really good, um, And so I was allowed to
do that show. It ultimately did conflict. In the last
(24:58):
season of twelve Monkeys, I shot ships during the day.
I would take a van to shoot twelve Monkeys at
night and then go back two ships in the morning.
The best time in my life. Everyone was so nice
to me, like the A D S of you, like here,
we've made you bet you have fifteen minutes, no way, Yeah,
it was amazing. Okay, I want to take a quick break,
(25:20):
and then I want no no, no, no, no no,
because we gotta play ads and stuff. Okayy, yeah, you
got some Melano cookie ye yeah. But when we come back,
I really want to dive into Ship's Creeks. I'm a
huge fan of that. Okay, oh good, you've seen this.
Everyone's seen the show back on the Wells cast Ami
(25:50):
hamshirret from Ship's Creek. On the show, she plays Stevie.
If you haven't watched the show, then I don't know
what the hell is wrong with you. It's one of
the biggest shows out there right now. Um, I want
to jump into ships Creek because, as with all things American,
we were way behind the curve on this. So was
(26:14):
it huge because it's huge in American was it huge
in Canada? And then someone was like, hey, what about
what about this show up? That's a greater boot. Um,
you know, it was big in Canada, but like as
biggest things get in Canada, it wasn't. I mean I
(26:35):
was actually kind of surprised, well not surprised, I mean,
it's just like it was. It was one of the
big shows in Canada, but that's that's kind of like
everything on the CBC is like a big show in Canada. Um.
But no, there was definitely a time when it went
from being kind of an um inside industry thing where
(26:58):
there was a lot of people in the industry who
were watching it, and I would say they liked it
and stuff too. I came back after Christmas one time
and like went into bad math and beyond, and it's
a whole different experience for me. It's like it was everywhere,
and I do think it was there was something political
about it. It felt like people there was bad times
(27:21):
and then people needed something good and goodhearted and not
cheesy good like it's genuinely funny. But it's also like,
I mean, Dan's decision, I can't say the word decision
all of a sudden, a decision to make UM, to
make ships creak a place where there's no homophobia. I
(27:41):
think it's such a Maverick move UM, because I would
think if you wanted to address an issue, you would
be like, UM, make them have somebody who's homophobic and
deal with it. And but no, he made this world
where it just doesn't exist and it's great, and so
I feel like there's so much of that goodness that
(28:03):
the show puts out that I think people need it
at the time. That's my guests. Yeah. Well, and also
I don't want to pigeonhole all small towns, but generally
really small towns, at least in these United States, they
are less um, I don't know liberal about because you're
not exposed to as much. And I think what's so
(28:25):
great about that too is Dan was like, I never
want ships Creek or the townspeople to be the butt
of a joke, which is so interesting, Like to even
think that far ahead. It's such it's not usually done
like that. Usually you'd be making fun of like, uh,
the towny Stevie who just stated, I mean I make
fun of yeah, So um no, I think he treated
(28:50):
everything with such dignity and yet it's still super funny.
So I imagine I'm not sure, but I imagine that
Gene is like acting royalty in Canada. Yes, him and Catherine. Yeah.
Um so did you sign on the show, like, let's
(29:12):
go to the beginning of the show. Did you sign
on the show because they were all a part of it,
or did you read a script that you were like
holy Ship's Creek, this is funny. I signed on because
I was poor and I had no place to considering
prostitution at some point. But also I was like, thank
god this is the thing that came along, because if
it was porn, I probably would have taken it. Um
(29:34):
So No. I actually like at the time, I had
been in l A and I suddenly got this like
anxiety auditioning. I was breaking out in hives, and so
I didn't want to I bang that sorry. Um, I didn't.
I couldn't go into auditions, and I told my agent,
I'll just put myself on tape. And Ship's Creak came
along and she's like, go in the room. They're Canadian,
(29:55):
they're nice. Um. So I went in. I auditioned and
then I got a call back. And I had actually
worked with Katherine before. We'd done a movie together and
she helped me get my Green Guard. She was so
love kind of like Ellen Rickman. She was so lovely
to me. Um. But I didn't. I we never saw
a script. I just all I knew was what I
(30:18):
read in the auditions, the sides, and I knew that
it was Katherine and Eugene. I'm a huge like waiting
for government is one of my favorite movies. UM. So yeah,
I signed on because of that as well. UM, but
I didn't. It really was and I hate to say,
just a Canadian show, but it just means that, like
(30:38):
only Canada on the CBC was going to see this
show at the time, and then the world changed. Um
so yeah, that's why I did. Like the knowledge of
the show only being in like on Canada's air take
away some of the anxiety of it for you, um
a negative or positive looking at it? Um. I mean
(31:02):
from me, it was and there was no anxiety of it.
For me. I'm more anxiety about auditioning than working. Well.
I want to go back to um the cast because
the cast, Like I mean, I'm not the one making
these decisions, but if you told me that Eugene Levy
and Cathy O'Hara and Dan We're going to be on
(31:23):
a show, I would be like, Okay, let's I'll do
five seasons right now on Amazon Prime. Let's go, you know.
So it's just bonkers to me that it was just
a Canadian you know, they pitched it to all kinds
of networks in the States and they ended up and
nobody really took it, and they ended up in Canada.
(31:44):
I think also because they got a lot more control
that way, they were allowed to do exactly what they wanted,
which I think is so great because knowing I was
doing a show that had a studio behind it at
the same time, and there's just so many cooks and
with this show, this was Dan, like really Dan. And
also though when you say, like signed onto a show
(32:06):
with Dan Eugene and Catherine, like Dan wasn't Dan at
the time, Like you didn't know that he was this
amazing as a creator and writer and like his hands
are in everything like from wardrobe to all the writing. Um.
So yeah, So it's interesting now that America loves it
(32:27):
more than Canada, more than Canada. Um when yeah, I
know that, Like they tried to sell it here, So
now that America loves it, yeah, yeah, you didn't want to.
That is a good the most American thing, right, That's amazing. Um.
(32:51):
So this is the last season, Yes, how do you
feel about it? Well, I've had a lot of time
to feel a lot of things about it. We at
we finished in June. Um and then n as a
wrap gift, got um got us a villa in Tuscany
to say goodbye at which was really I mean not generous. Um.
(33:16):
So we ended the show and what's been great as
we've been doing these tours so we get to see
each other and kind of it didn't feel like it
was ripping up date off saying goodbye. UM, but it
was sad and I think all of us didn't believe
it at first. We were all like, oh, he's just
he's not doing this, but he is, and it was
(33:38):
Now I think it's the greatest thing ever because it
really like now that I know how it ends and everything,
and he always envisioned this and and so many shows
also don't get the chance to even know if they're
going to end, so like they just get canceled. This
he has the opportunity to end the show on his terms,
but also like in a way that respects all the
(34:00):
actors in the audience. And it's it's definitely a satisfying ending. Yeah,
I mean you're gonna cry, but you're gonna laugh too.
Are you satisfied like that it's over? Would you would
you keep on going knowing the ending? Um? Okay, well
I would keep I would go for one year just
(34:21):
we could get paid that kind of money that you
get paid when people want you to do this show
again because we you know, we were yeah, yeah, we
worked in Canada. We made Canadian dollars, which are equivalent
to seashells. So um yeah, I would go maybe one more,
but but dance. Dan's right like the way it ended,
(34:42):
And I remember him saying to me, He's like, you know,
these a lot of shows go on forever, and Stevie
would end up doing being a nurse somewhere at something.
How would you like that? And I'm like, I love
that love, but um, you know it's the right thing
to do. I feel really good about it and how
it's ended. It's so I think we all love our
characters and love all of all of each other's characters,
(35:05):
and they've been done right by so it's nice now
going to like individual actors because I mean, like the
show is just so so funny. Who is the funniest?
Like on set? And then offset no, one's really funny.
(35:29):
That's true, Um, you know what, Like I find Eugene
the funniest, but because when he's not being like, there's
this thing where he'll just like keep talking and keep talking,
and and the dynamic between Dan and Eugene as father
and son is hilarious to me. So I find that
(35:49):
very funny. Okay, so explain that though, because that is
very interesting. Well, um, okay, here's a great example. I
was doing a scene with Eugene and Dan came over
to give him a note, and Eugene was like, okay,
and he went and he took the note, and then
he looked up to see Dan watching to be like
did I do it? And Dan's like on his phone texting,
(36:12):
and Eugene's like but and and and Dan's like, yeah, yeah,
it was great. Great. And so there's there's that dynamic
where sometimes there's like a role reversal in terms of um, yeah,
I don't know, it's it's just it's it's sweet. Eugene
is so sweet. Funny, Um yeah, who's you know, who's
(36:35):
the funniest. It's like when we go on tour and
we play games, then we're all pretty funny, like we
do impressions of each other and um, so Catherine is
hilarious at that. But I would say Chris is probably
the one who makes everyone laugh because he's so crazy
and he'll just start He really gets Eugene. Like, there
(36:56):
are times when we haven't been able to finish a
scene because Chris has made Eugene laugh. Yeah. Um So
now that it's ending and everyone's very sad, what do
you what's happening next for you? Um? Well, I just um,
I did this movie that I It was my first
(37:17):
time executive producing, which was exciting. It's it's a horror movie. Um.
But it was weird because the script came to me
and usually I think when something an offer comes to me,
it's gonna be terrible, especially a horror movie. UM. But
I read it, I'm like, this is so good. Um,
it's so well written, and but I wanted it to
be done like really the way I wanted it to
(37:39):
be done. So I was like, all be on this
if I can executive produce it. And so just finished
that and it's in post and it's kind of like
hereditary in that kind of way. Um my voice is
getting better good time tonight. Yeah, Oh my god, that's
gonna be That's my next Joe. That's what we're working on.
(38:02):
Um No, and I'm I'm developing this thing that I'm
not allowed to talk about yet. But it's like the
most exciting thing that's ever happened to me in my life. Okay,
well thanks for that. What's the name of the of
the horror film? It's called home? Okay, and do you
have is there a distribution method? We just there cutting
(38:24):
it still so it's yeah, okay, um, Emily hasher Thank
you so much for stopping by the Wells cash. Thank
you so much. I want to do radio this. You
get to snack, you get to yeah, thank you so much.
What we get paid in? What's worse than Canadian dollars? Seashells?
Um like gift certificate? Yep, that's what actually, actually, that's
(38:47):
what it is. Guys. If you haven't um seen Ship's Creek,
it's on Netflix and go watch all the seasons because
the final season um is premiering on tomorrow. Holy crap, yes, um, well,
let's do Rabbi Fire real quick. Sorry sorry sorry sorry,
Oh it's tomorrow on Pop because some people, like I
(39:11):
know a lot of people watch it on Netflix. But
if you're first first responder, No, you're a first what
are those people who go by the apple things? You're
a first whatever? Your first person? You watch it on Pop? Okay,
I like first responder. Yeah, okay, there's an emergency rapid
(39:32):
fire questions with Emily Hamshi. This might get dirty though,
this isn't live right because sometimes I have sexual to rance.
What's wonderful? Uh we already did kiss? We know it
was uh first concert. I need to Franco. Oh my god,
I'm such a lesbian. I didn't know then, though I'm
(39:54):
sure I did it, which is so dumb. Now I'm like,
if all the signs were there, first job, Uh oh yeah,
are you for the dark first car? Oh oh, Volkswagen
soft used that Alan Rickman taught you how to drive? Yeah? Yeah,
(40:16):
By the way, that is the that snape taught you
how to drive is the funniest part of this whole podcast.
By the way, celebrity you've been mistaken for Oh oh
that Taryn Manning girl, Like, oh when Parker Posey used
to get that that's in front. Actually it's like a
chubbier Barker Posey. Um, Canada's Barker Posey. So take it
(40:38):
as a compliment. Biggest pet peeve loud noises, loud noises,
not not the like, yeah, that's not really a pet
peeve though. Oh chewing sounds yeah, oh my god, eating
like bagel and cream cheese, like the moist and the
(40:59):
and people deal with it. I broke up with somebody
because of that. I wish you were recording. Do we
have audio? I was like, I'm so I can't believe
I'm doing this, but I was so hungry. Who would
barely out of jail? My agent, Danny. Last person you
texted on your phone? Oh jesus, um can I look?
(41:21):
It has to be rabbit. Who was it? Who was
who was this person? Bobby Burke? Okay, do you know
Bobby Burke is that's impressive. He's from Queer Eye, that
guy who does the designing. And I like that. That
was an impressive That was good. And my fiance is
(41:43):
so mad at me right now for being like, who's
the most famous person in your phone? I'm so Corney Weaver.
That is good. Emily Hanford, thank you so much for
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