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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="3549267" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jaime-Camil">Jaime Camil</keyword> praised his co-star <keyword id="2735235" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Cecily-Strong">Cecily Strong</keyword> in an interview with Insider about "<keyword id="11800000" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="schmigadoon">Schmigadoon!</keyword>"</li><li>Camil stars in the AppleTV+ musical-comedy series as a potential love interest for Strong.</li><li>Camil says he loves that the show will "showcase" the "immense talent" of the "<keyword id="280516" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="SNL">SNL</keyword>" alum.</li></ul>Jaime Camil could not sing Cecily Strong's praises enough in an interview with Insider about their latest TV series "Schmigadoon!"The "Jane the Virgin" star appears in the new AppleTV+ series as Doctor Lopez, who forms a connection with the "Saturday Night Live" alum's character, Melissa.Camil got to see Strong's acting firsthand and says the musical-comedy will showcase Strong's "immense talent."He told Insider: "She's amazing, man. You have no idea. Yes, she's a big star. We all know her from 'SNL' and the sketches but I love that this show is gonna really showcase her immense talent that she has not only as a singer but as a dramatic actress." Strong has appeared in movies and series such as the "Ghostbusters" reboot and "Loafy" but this is her first major lead role.<div type="image" title="Cecily Strong and Keegan Michael Key in 'Schmigadoon'" height="2243" width="2991" msid="85149184" hostid="261"></div>"This show will catapult her into the artistry level that she deserves. That is one of the things that I love most about the show. It will really catapult Cecily where she deserves to be as a complete artist," Camil added.Kristen Chenoweth, who also stars in the series, told Insider that Strong surprised "everybody" with her acting skills, calling her a "genius actor."Strong is known best for "SNL" which she has been a cast member part of since 2012. She recently told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/books/cecily-strong-this-will-all-be-over-soon.html">The New York Times</a> that she was "still thinking" about whether to return for another season.In "Schmigadoon!" Strong plays the musical-loving Melissa who is trying to fix her relationship with her boyfriend Josh (Keegan Michael-Key) when they both get trapped in a musical."Schmigadoon!" parodies multiple musicals from the mid-20th-century known as the golden age of musicals such as "The Sound of Music," "Oklahoma!" and "The Music Man."

Jaime Camil says 'Schmigadoon!' will 'catapult' 'SNL' alum Cecily Strong into acting stardom

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="180607" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kristin-Chenoweth">Kristin Chenoweth</keyword> said she had a "love-hate relationship" with her costume in "<keyword id="11800000" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="schmigadoon">Schmigadoon!</keyword>"</li><li>Chenoweth told Insider she asked for her costume to be uncomfortable to help portray her uptight character.</li><li>Chenoweth added that she partly regretted how tight the costume was halfway through filming.</li></ul>Kristen Chenoweth told Insider that she asked for her costume to be intentionally uncomfortable to help with her role in Apple TV+'s "Schmigadoon!"In the series, Chenoweth plays a judgemental conservative, Christian, Mildred Layton, who tries to steer the town of Schmigadoon away from progress.In an interview with Insider, the Broadway star described how her costume helped bring her character to life. She said: "I needed the maniacal Joker lips because she's crazy and I needed not a hair out of place and I needed her to be buttoned up from here to here and I'm telling you it was so uncomfortable but it helped me be uncomfortable. I'm pretty basically an overall happy person. I needed to be uncomfortable and I was!"<div type="image" title="Schmigadoon Kristin Chenoweth shows newspaper to crowd" height="4023" width="5365" msid="85127275" hostid="261"></div>This is not the first time the award-winning actress has played a villain. She played Maleficent in Disney's "Descendants" and Velma Von Tussle in NBC's "Hairspray Live!" Coincidentally, both projects starred her "Schmigadoon!" co-star Dove Cameron as Chenoweth's daughter.Chenoweth added that she regretted the decision after a couple of weeks."I had a love-hate relationship with my costume," she said. "I asked the designer: 'The corsets. Can you make it a little tight?' I wanted to be uncomfortable. That was a cute idea at first and then in week three, I'm like, 'This isn't funny anymore. I can't breathe.""Schmigadoon!" is a <keyword id="2809" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="musical">musical</keyword> comedy that parodies the golden age of <keyword id="1302721" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="musicals">musicals</keyword> - musicals made in the mid-20th century such as "The Sound of Music" and "Oklahoma!" Chenoweth told <a href="https://broadwaydirect.com/kristin-chenoweth-ariana-debose-on-their-schmigadoon-musical-characters/">Broadwaydirect.com</a> that her character was an "amalgamation" of many Broadway characters including Laurie from "Oklahoma!" Chenoweth's solo song in the series parodies <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_Oe-jtgdI">"Ya Got Trouble"</a> from "The Music Man." Chenoweth told Insider that despite the difficulty of the four-minute solo song, she was <a href="https://www.insider.com/kristin-chenoweth-four-minute-solo-one-take-schmigadoon-tribulation-2021-8">able to perform it perfectly without any cuts on the first take</a>. Coincidentally, the Tony award-winning actress starred in the movie version of "The Music Man" in 2003.

'Schmigadoon!' star Kristin Chenoweth said she asked for her costume to be intentionally uncomfortable to help portray her uptight character

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="180607" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kristin-Chenoweth">Kristin Chenoweth</keyword> said that the "<keyword id="11800000" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="schmigadoon">Schmigadoon!</keyword>" team nailed a difficult song with no cuts on the first take.</li><li>Chenoweth's solo "Tribulation" in the AppleTV+ series' fifth episode is four minutes long and has no rhymes.</li><li>Chenoweth said she learned the song by practising over and over whilst watching "90-day fiancé."</li></ul>Kristin Chenoweth told Insider that her four-minute solo in "Schmigadoon!" was filmed perfectly in one shot on the first take.The award-winning actress said that although they filmed the big number three times, the "Schmigadoon!" director, <keyword id="282192" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Barry-Sonnenfeld">Barry Sonnenfeld</keyword>, ended up using the first take."If one person messes up we go back to the beginning so everybody in the ensemble was looking at me like, 'We're not going to mess up.' We were there together," she said. "After the first take, the big old Mildred banner came down and he [Sonnenfeld] yelled cut and everyone cheered because we knew we did it. When we got done Barry goes let's just do another one because we can. So we did it three times and the actual one in the show was the very first time we did it."According to production notes for the AppleTV+ series, Sonnenfeld wanted as much of the singing to be done live as possible, including Chenoweth's solo "Tribulation" in the fifth episode of the series.<div type="image" title="Schmigadoon Kristin Chenoweth sings to crowd" height="1917" width="2557" msid="85076619" hostid="261"></div>"Tribulation" is particularly difficult because it is lengthy and none of the words rhyme.The Broadway star told Insider that she laughed when Sonnenfeld told her that she was going to do such a difficult song in one shot.She said: "When Barry Sonnenfeld called me. He said, 'I want to do an 18-pager and I want to do it in one [shot].' I started laughing and then he said 'You can. You can.'""I knew it would be a challenge at this point in my career," she added. "Sonnenfeld knows that I still want to be challenged and he handed it to me. It was so fun and so hard but so rewarding." Chenoweth said that during her quarantine before filming, she learned the song by practicing over and over whilst on an elliptical machine and watching "90-day fiancé."<div type="image" title="schmigadoon" height="2651" width="3535" msid="85076622" hostid="261"></div>Chenoweth stars in the musical-comedy series as a morally-shrewd Christian, Mildred Layton, who attempts to guilt-trip the townspeople of Schmigadoon into being as morally pure as herself."Schmigadoon!" parodies the golden age of <keyword id="1302721" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="musicals">musicals</keyword>, which are a set of famous musicals made in the mid 20th century such as "<keyword id="259497" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="The-Sound-of-Music">The Sound of Music</keyword>," "<keyword id="6361579" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="oklahoma">Oklahoma</keyword>!" and "Guys and Dolls." Chenoweth's song particularly is parodying <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_Oe-jtgdI">"Ya Got Trouble"</a> from "The Music Man." Coincidentally, the Tony award-winning actress starred in the movie version of "The Music Man" in 2003.

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