Schitt’s Creek star, Emily Hampshire in Hamilton for ‘The End of Sex’
If you are a fan of Schitt's Creek," you might like to know that Stevie Budd has been in town.
Emily Hampshire, who played the hotel manager-clerk at the Rosebud Motel in the beloved Canadian sitcom, has been in Hamilton filming a romantic comedy called The End of Sex."
The film has shot in multiple locations, and during the last week of January, it shot at the former Gallery on the Bay at Bay Street North and Barton Street West. The gallery closed down last summer after 25 years in operation and the owners sold the century-old building.
Hampshire, born in Montreal, is just one member of an award winning Canadian film team making The End of Sex."
Hampshire was on Schitt's Creek" during its entire run (2015-2020) and won a Canadian Screen Award each year for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role or Guest in a Comedic Series.
Schitt's Creek" itself won 18 Canadian Screen Awards and won all seven major comedy awards at the 72nd Emmy Awards in September 2020.
Hampshire has won a Gemini Award for actress in 2001 for the TV series Made in Canada" and a Canadian Comedy Award in 2013 for her role in the film My Awkward Sexual Adventure," which was made by award-winning Winnipeg director/producer/writer Sean Garrity. He is helming The End of Sex."
Here is a synopsis of the film: A couple, feeling the pressure of parenting and adulthood, send their kids to a sleepaway camp for the first time and embark on a series of adventures in an attempt to reinvigorate their relationship or face the undoing of their loving family.
Garrity is also known for Lucid" (2005) and I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight" (2020). His 2001 feature Inertia," about four young professionals trying to find love in Winnipeg, won the award for Best Canadian First Feature at the 2001 TIFF.
The End of Sex" also features actor/screenwriter Jonas Chernick, who appeared in and wrote My Awkward Sexual Adventure." He is probably best known for playing David Addison in the 2014 six-part CBC miniseries The Best Laid Plans," based on Terry Fallis' comedic book. Chernick won a Canadian Screen Award for his role, and won a Gemini Award in 2008 for his role in the CBC show The Border."
The End of Sex" also has Melanie Scrofano, who played the great-great-granddaughter of Wyatt Earp on the supernatural Western Wynonna Earp" on the Syfy Channel, and also Mrs. McMurray on the sitcom Letterkenny."
Lily Gao, another Letterkenny" cast member, is also in the film. She has appeared in The Handmaid's Tale," Transplant," Private Eyes" and in Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City" (which filmed in Hamilton in 2020).
It looks like the Netflix horror anthology show Guillermo del Toro Presents 12 After Midnight" has wrapped up filming in Hamilton. The streaming service announced Jan. 24 the eight episode series is now called Cabinet of Curiosities."
The program, which has been filming in the area since last summer, filmed at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in downtown Hamilton the week of Jan. 10. It was also seen at Dundurn Castle. Reports are that it finished filming at the end of January.
The series shot in Dundas, North End, Strabane, Scottish Rite, Bayfront Studios and on a road near Valens.
Farewell, Robert Langdon.
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol," which featured his intrepid Harvard symbologist, has been cancelled by the Peacock streaming service in the U.S. The program, which shot in Hamilton, ran on Showcase in Canada.
Peacock said in a Jan. 24 release the show was done because it had told all of its story in 10 episodes. Australian actor Ashley Zukerman played Langdon.
The show filmed at Bayfront Studios, Scottish Rite and the RBG Arboretum in Dundas last year. The pilot filmed scenes at Liuna Station in 2020.
Daniel Nolan is a freelance writer who writes about film for The Hamilton Spectator. He can be reached at dannolanwrites@gmail.com