Annie Murphy is dishing all about who the better TV mom is between Christine Baranski and Catherine O’Hara.
The 38-year-old actress opened up about the subject while chatting exclusively with Parade ahead of the Season 2 premiere of Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers, on which she and Baranski, 73, play estranged mother-daughter duo Imogen and Victoria, respectively. Murphy and O’Hara, 71, previously portrayed mother-daughter pair Alexis and Moira Rose on Schitt’s Creek.
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“Neither of them! They’re so deeply underqualified to be proper mothers,” Murphy tells Parade of their onscreen characters. “I think this one [Christine] did end up trying her best when all was said and done, but it took 35 years, and then Moira was more of, I think a friend than a mother. That’s what she would’ve preferred to be labeled, I think.”
As for whether or not Murphy pulled some of her Schitt’s Creek character into her Nine Perfect Strangers role, the Emmy-winning actress tells Parade that it was a completely different experience portraying Imogen in the show’s forthcoming Season 2.
“I think they’re very separate characters. I think they’re both kind of spoiled children and women, but I think that they would’ve butted heads pretty significantly, and Imogen would’ve probably written Alexis off as a bit of an airhead,” she explains. “But no, I felt that they were pretty separate individuals.”
Nine Perfect Strangersfirst premiered on Hulu in 2021. Based on Liane Moriarty’s New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, the thriller series follows nine stressed city dwellers who go to a retreat at a wellness resort that promises to transform the guests that stay there. Nicole Kidman stars as Masha Dmitrichenko, a Russian wellness guru whose unconventional and disturbing methods rattle the resort guests.
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Joining Kidman, Murphy and Baranski for the second installment of the anthology series are Murray Bartlett, Dolly de Leon, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, King Princess, Aras Aydın, Lucas Englander, Henry Golding, Mark Strong and Lena Olin.
Season 2 of Nine Perfect Strangers premieres on Hulu on Wednesday, May 21.
