Cast & Showrunner of ‘The Big Door Prize’ On How Comedy Series Has ’Schitt’s Creek’ Parallels | SXSW 2023 - video Dailymotion

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The cast and showrunner of 'The Big Door Prize' discussed their series ‘The Big Door Prize’ at SXSW 2023.

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00:00Do you like looking at water towers?

00:02Are we going to get renewed?

00:12I might find a tiny little town.

00:14Maybe 2,000.

00:16I'd say I'd know the names of maybe 89% of the people in it

00:19if you were walking down the street,

00:21which is probably a Deerfield kind of a vibe.

00:23It makes it hard to fall out with people,

00:25which is probably healthy.

00:27There is part of the show that we haven't talked about

00:29and that's what I do think is really interesting.

00:31It was a big draw to me at the start,

00:33which is this small town that are led by this suddenly

00:36kind of oracle nature of something,

00:38which I've kind of experienced as a foreigner here in America,

00:40people just being easily led by these.

00:42Each one of these people is so special

00:44and that's one of the special things about the show

00:47is that it really is this ensemble

00:49and there's this great premise of what would you do

00:53if there was a machine that could tell you your life potential,

00:55but part of the fun is seeing that

00:57through the lens of all these different characters,

00:59you get very different life potentials

01:00and how it kind of spins them off in different directions.

01:03So having a cast of, you know, stone-cold killers,

01:07no matter whose episode it is or who's kind of more featured,

01:11it's always so compelling when you have a cast this talented.

01:15You think about it, it's like,

01:16I wonder what makes people who they are

01:19and what makes us who we are.

01:20And so I reflect on that every day,

01:22is how are you who you are?

01:25And this does that.

01:26And for me, reading the script was very much so

01:28when you read it, you were like, that's different.

01:30Yeah.

01:31So it was very much like, I want to be a part of this.

01:32It feels so different, so unique, so on its own, two feet,

01:35and nothing.

01:36There's really no other show to compare it to.

01:38Nope.

01:39So that one's made me very excited to join.

01:40Totally.

01:41It was just unlike anything I'd ever seen before.

01:43It's so cinematic.

01:44I feel like it was like the silliest audition I ever had.

01:47Although like I did just kind of put my laptop on my couch,

01:52but my cat was...

01:53Your cat was causing problems.

01:55Oh yeah.

01:56I mean, she was just like sitting in the back,

01:58just giving a death stare to them maybe.

02:00So yeah, I don't know.

02:02Maybe that's why they hired me.

02:03I'm not actually...

02:04Wait, did the cat help?

02:05Did the cat help?

02:06Did the cat help?

02:07Yeah, I think so.

02:08Cast the cat.

02:09I mean, well, so I worked on Schitt's Creek before,

02:11which is also set in a small town where, you know,

02:14similar to this, there's a kind of bubble of,

02:16you don't really know exactly where this town is.

02:19It's geographically ambiguous,

02:21but it's about the people and the place

02:23and hoping the audience falls in love

02:25with this specific group of people.

02:27And so I think there's some parallel there with Schitt's Creek.

02:31The post pandemic, I think what also triggered

02:33when I read the script is that there is that unanswered,

02:36like how you were saying, you're asking yourself this daily.

02:38Yeah.

02:39During the pandemic, a lot of us shift focus

02:41and shift things that were important to us

02:43and kind of rediscovering ourselves and our purpose

02:46and all of those things.

02:47So I think for me, like reading that,

02:49still during the pandemic,

02:50it was very much like, oh my gosh,

02:52people are going to really,

02:53this will resonate with people because I feel like we all

02:56as a group kind of migrated through this experience together

02:59and, you know, good, bad and ugly.

03:01And so really, we all changed because of it.

Cast & Showrunner of ‘The Big Door Prize’ On How Comedy Series Has ’Schitt’s Creek’ Parallels | SXSW 2023

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