we may know emily hampshire as stevie on
shit's creek but there's more to her
than meets the eye
although stevie's story may have ended
in 2020 hampshire's keeps us enamored
here's all you wanted to know about the
actress who plays stevie on shit's creek
emily hampshire has starred in some
pretty big ads including a 2020 super
bowl commercial for tide
interestingly she didn't enter into the
world of commercials until she was
already famous
but not for lack of trying hampshire
talked about her unusual career to
mental floss and explained that while
many actors get their start by racking
up credits and commercials she says she
quote just didn't get them the tide
commercial was hampshire's first and she
crushed it the reason she performed so
well
is that she actually liked the product
she was selling in the commercial
something that wasn't true of the other
commercials she had auditioned for
she admitted i'm just really bad at
selling anything i don't actually use or
like
it sounds like i'm trying to smuggle
something at customs
hampshire also has experience in the
horror genre having launched her acting
career in two episodes of the 90s
nickelodeon horror show
are you afraid of the dark she first
played girlfriend number one telling
mental floss my only scene was to go
over to the boy's house and make out
with him
hampshire followed that role with
another episode of the same show this
time playing girlfriend number two
she joked to the outlet quote it was
kind of a demotion after shit's creek
wrapped hampshire returned to her horror
roots with home
a project she both starred in and
produced she also appeared in quibby's
2020 horror
show 50 states of fright hampshire
admitted that she's not the biggest fan
of horror
she said when a horror script comes i
expect it to be the worst thing ever
read
but this was good emily hampshire
brightened a lot of lives as stevie on
shit's creek but the role also proved to
be a blessing for her in real life
landing the gig came at a perfect time
not just in the actress's career but
also in her personal life hampshire was
struggling to book roles she hadn't
acted in a year and she had just gone
through a divorce when she auditioned
for the now iconic
comedy as the actress summed it up in an
interview with pop sugar
my pre-shit's life was hampshire told
pop sugar that she was down to 800
in savings and was about to start
sleeping in her friend's closet when
shit's creek changed her life forever
she said i feel like i can appreciate
work now for having not had it instantly
before her audition was no
easy process after trying to send in a
taped audition she ended up auditioning
live for co-creator and star dan levy
she told pop
sugar i really had no recollection of my
audition i went in and i did the
audition and he says
it was great but then i proceeded to get
on the couch where they were sitting and
lift my shirt over my head and hide my
head in my shirt and rock back and forth
fortunately levy found the whole thing
charming and hampshire was awarded the
role of stevie
when shit's creek ended after six
seasons many viewers would have happily
continued watching for decades to come
but emily hampshire pointed out that
things could have gone worse for shit's
creek's loyal viewers she told mental
floss
most shows don't know when they're going
to end they just get cancelled since it
was shit's creek's creators who decided
to end the show after six seasons they
were able to end it in a way that did
the show justice
hampshire hinted that she wouldn't have
minded continuing to portray stevie but
she said dan had the luxury of doing it
right i've seen the ending
and i respect dan's decision to end it
now and in a way that stays true to the
characters
while shit's creek is beloved the series
took some time to get off the ground
the sleeper hit didn't actually take off
until it hit netflix toward the end of
the show's run she told mental floss it
was kind of overnight
the last season when i came back to los
angeles it was a whole different
experience
over christmas it seemed like everybody
was watching shits suddenly hampshire
was being noticed by fans in public and
shit's creek had become a cultural icon
hampshire said she loved doing the show
even before it made her famous but once
the show caught on with mainstream
audiences a switch flipped
she said then we're suddenly at the sag
awards and nicole kidman wants to take a
picture with us
hampshire told advocate that she thinks
shit's creek suddenly soared in
popularity saying
it was after a political time and people
wanted something good with a good heart
and not
dumb and not easy good and that town you
pass through
it's not called shitsville it's called
shit's creek
and it's where we live playing stevie on
shit's creek came naturally for emily in
fact it came a little too easily for the
actress she told harper's bazaar
i honestly feel like playing stevie is
easier than me being me in my regular
life
the real world is more difficult than
doing a scene and having stevie's
dialogues and her relationships
hampshire and stevie have a lot in
common but the actress thinks there's at
least one major difference
between them she said i've realized that
i'm definitely not as cool as stevie
while the role didn't exactly make her
rich it did make her some new friends
and help revive her career
hampshire told harper's bazaar that
filming the show was quote like being at
camp
and that she became especially close to
her on-screen bff dan levy
levy co-created shit's creek in addition
to starring as david but that power
dynamic didn't prevent the two from
bonding
in an interview with advocate she said
dan changed my life in so many ways i
feel that he's changed my life in a very
similar way to the way he's changed the
lives of the people who watch the show
she went on to say david and stevie's
relationship has been the greatest thing
ever to me one of the best moments in
shit's creek is when we see stevie
transform into singer sally bowles when
she takes on the lead in a community
production of cabaret the role not only
pushed stevie out of her comfort zone
and showed the audience a new side of
her character but it was also incredibly
important to emily hampshire
she told the cider that as a fan of
musicals sally was a quote
dream role the actress revealed that she
even mentioned the possibility of the
citizens of shit's creek performing
cabaret
years earlier but said i never in a
million years thought stevie would be
part of it or
let alone play sally bowles hampshire
performs a powerful rendition of maybe
this time on the show
she explained i definitely wanted it to
be how stevie would emotionally connect
to the song in a way that stevie has
never really let herself connect
emotionally to anything or anyone it
felt like stevie got that magical moment
that's my friend what makes emily
hampshire's portrayal of stevia on
shit's creek even more impressive
is that she was starring on another big
show while filming it hampshire played
jennifer on 12 monkeys from 2015 to
2018.
starring on two series let hampshire
show off her range while shit's creek is
a comedy 12 monkeys is a time travel
drama and the character of jennifer is
very different from stevie she said to
harper's bazaar coming off of filming
the first
season of shits where i'd been playing
the person with the laziest job in the
world
i had no idea the energy that would be
required to do an hour-long sci-fi drama
and play a crazy person in it filming
both shows also took a toll on hampshire
who told town and country that she found
herself working on one during the
daytime and then sleeping in a van in
order to do night shoots for the other
shit's creek was a big part of emily
hampshire's life so it stands to reason
that she'd want something to remember
her time playing stevie on the show
along with some other cast members
hampshire swiped a lot of mementos from
the set
among the many things she told buzzfeed
she took were some pretty random things
like a brochure from the fictional
airline stevie briefly works for
larry air and a tamagotchi she also took
the massive stag
painting from the motel which is so big
it barely fits in her home
she told pure wow so in my 500 square
foot apartment there is a life size of a
deer that takes up the entire room
it's amazing hampshire also has a lot of
stevie's flannel shirts in her wardrobe
but she didn't wait until shit's creek
wrapped to begin taking stevie's clothes
she admitted to mental flaws
i always take her stuff but for some
reason the wardrobe women they just find
the perfect hoodie or the perfect jean
so i take those while it's unlikely that
shit's creek will get a reboot
any time soon it could get a spin-off
someday during an online discussion
hosted by cutwater spirits emily
hampshire said she quote would be down
for
all of that it's not just the
opportunity to revisit stevie that's
enjoyable
she'd also love to get the shit's creek
cast back together everyone really
bonded during their five years on the
show and according to hampshire quote
actually all like each other for the
record co-creator dan levy is open to
the idea of a spin-off telling oprah
daly
there's a thousand different avenues i
just think it's about
only time will tell whether shit's creek
spin-off becomes a reality but we love
the idea
there's one major genre emily would love
to check off her bucket list the actress
wants to dive into the world of
superheroes and she talked to comic book
about which costumed hero in the marvel
cinematic universe she could see herself
playing she noted i'd be very into
playing she-hulk you think of she-hulk
and muscles and stuff but the person
who's behind it is just such a cool
character
unfortunately for all us shit's creek
fans she-hulk has already begun filming
with tatiana maslany best known for her
role in orphan black starring as the
lead
hampshire also said she would be on
board when fans on twitter called for
her to be cast as spider-woman
she tweeted in response i'm going to
second this the star would be just as
content to play someone without
superpowers though
telling comic book i just love to play a
comic book character that idea is the
coolest thing
emily hampshire's life may have changed
after starring in schizorika stevie but
it didn't make her impervious to
heartbreak the actress went public with
her relationship with singer teddy
geiger in september 2018.
a couple of months later they were
engaged but the two never tied the knot
while the relationship might not have
worked out falling for geiger and
starring on shit's creek helped
hampshire realize something about her
sexuality
complicated yeah so you're just really
open to all wines
i like the wine and not the label does
that make sense yes
it does dan levy's character david is
pansexual on the show and hampshire
admitted to passport that she didn't
know what pansexuality meant before it
came up in a scene
she said then i found myself falling in
love with a trans woman i had previously
been married to a man so i was very
confused
it was levy who helped her realize that
like david she is pansexual as the
actress put it i don't fall for people
because of their bodies i fall for them
because of who they are
and we have to say we love who emily
hampshire is
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