In the Season 4 episode “Singles Week"... Jocelyn Schitt advises Moira Rose to trust her flighty daughter:
“Listen…I have watched your daughter over the last couple of years grow into one of the most amazing people I’ve ever known. She is a hard worker, she is kind, and she is capable of so much more than people give her credit for.”
Jocelyn’s right…After I heard that speech, I realized that asking myself “What Would Alexis Rose Do?” throughout the day might actually be a winning technique — a technique of growth, of kindness, of confidence in one’s abilities.
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...when you think about it, Alexis is by far the most capable member of the Rose family.
https://medium.com/@mthimes2/what-would-alexis-rose-do-468e5770f6f2
“Listen…I have watched your daughter over the last couple of years grow into one of the most amazing people I’ve ever known. She is a hard worker, she is kind, and she is capable of so much more than people give her credit for.”
Jocelyn’s right…After I heard that speech, I realized that asking myself “What Would Alexis Rose Do?” throughout the day might actually be a winning technique — a technique of growth, of kindness, of confidence in one’s abilities.
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...when you think about it, Alexis is by far the most capable member of the Rose family.
https://medium.com/@mthimes2/what-would-alexis-rose-do-468e5770f6f2
Thanks to Schitt's Creek stunner Annie Murphy's sparkling talent, self-effacing humor, and inherent goodness, anything that can go right, should go right.
The story of the Rose family…touched a collective longing for goodness in this mean-spirited era.
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"It takes a self-aware, intelligent, empathetic actor to play with so much compassion a character who lacks self-awareness," West Read says. "Annie…can do so much with so little. Ten seconds of her awkwardly walking out a door is as great as anything we could write."
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Both Eugene and O'Hara avow that they love Murphy like their own daughter. In the long list of comedic talents they've worked with in their storied careers, they put her at the top. "It's her timing, her physicality, her delivery, it's the whole package," Eugene says. "I'm in awe of what she can do. She runs the gamut from the funniest moments to the tiniest looks that tug right at your heart."
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Despite her considerable success, lately she's been struggling. This past summer, "I was in a place where it was hard to see two feet in front of me," she says. "It was hard to get out of bed. Having a shower was the job for the day that sometimes didn't get done. That's a scary place to be."
Those close to her, as well as her therapist, suggested that she might be in a clinical depression. She denied it. "I so desperately didn't want to be that person," Murphy says. "I wanted to be the happy person I know I am and can be. But you don't get to choose if you're depressed."
Now she's on antidepressants, and feeling better. "I hope this is just a little piece of time where I need extra help," she says. "Things are still hard and sad, but I feel like I can get through it as opposed to it weighing down on me. I think it's an important thing to talk about. Most people that we know are dealing with some kind of anxiety or depression. Therapy is an incredibly helpful tool. So much can be fixed. We can avoid so much sadness and turmoil. I want to do everything I can to help lift the stigma and encourage more support for mental health." Depression has nothing to do with failure or success, she stresses: "It's the weight of being human that just catches up to you sometimes."
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"Anyone with a brain should be jumping to get Annie," O'Hara says. "I hope she knows how good she is."
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She also hopes to keep something else of Alexis's: her self-confidence. "It's the most anti-Canadian way of being," she says, laughing. "Canadians are like, 'I'm sorry I'm here, oops.' So taking a sprinkle of confidence from her would be nice.
https://cbswatchmagazine.com/interviews/getting-to-know-annie-murphy-of-schitts-creek/hair-moustache
