

“And whenever I’d be like, ‘OK, we’re fine.’ He’d be like, ‘We hope,'” Victor recalls of Johnson, laughing.

“Daddy Jake was also like, ‘Oh, we’re fine. “We’re like, ‘OK, bestie but… what?'” Oscar Montoya, who plays Bottom Dollar photographer Richie, recounts while laughing. Like, who are we doing this for? It’s just filmsturbation.” So all of these 15-hour days, if they were never going to be viewable, felt really cruel. People work very hard to make any show, but especially a prestige comedy, and one that’s set in 1973. I could just see how despondent this crew was. “I was shooting a scene with Ophelia in the kitchen, and every time before they yelled ‘action,’ I would be blinking back tears. Finish shooting the show, finish post.’ They could have easily just pulled the plug if they were looking to save money, but they didn’t.”ĭespite getting the chance to wrap things up, the news - at least initially - made it difficult to work for some of the cast.

“We were one week away from finishing production, that was a real kick in the head,” Feig previously told The Hollywood Reporter, before revealing the one silver-lining. They had just five days left, including reshoots and a bit of the season two finale. The news came on a Monday as the cast was in the midst of shooting. I thought we were in the business of making great television, and we are universally in agreement that this show is great, it pushes boundaries and is a world we’ve never been in before.” “It was bananas because it happened at a time when we were on all of these year-end best lists,” recalls star Lennon Parham, who plays Shelly, the sister of Minx co-founder Joyce Prigger. Hollywood Offered Jake Johnson a Path to Mega-Stardom, He Chose a Regular Life
