Emily Hampshire has a long resume, but for many American audiences she broke through with the role of the socially awkward, flannel-wearing motel employee Stevie Budd on “Schitt’s Creek.” Now she’s starring on the new Amazon series “The Rig,” a thriller about a crew trapped on an oil rig stationed off the Scottish coast.
As settings go, an oil rig is a long way from the Rosebud Motel of “Schitt’s Creek.” She plays an oil company rep. “She’s corporate so she isn’t very well-liked and she doesn’t give a (expletive) about anybody liking her — which for me, being Canadian, was something I really wanted to rub off on me because I’m not like that.”
When asked about a worst moment in her career, Hampshire talked about her first pitch meeting ever. “It was with Norman Lear, who is a TV legend. He created ‘Maude,’ he created ‘All in the Family’ — he basically invented TV.”
