Dan Levy said in the documentary that they looked at about "a hundred" people to play Alexis. Life was a struggle for Annie Murphy before she landed the series: "Things leading up to that point had not been going great. I hadn't worked in over two years," Murphy explained. "The universe was really screaming in my ear, like, this is not for you. And literally, the next day, I got an email for an audition for a show called Schitt's Creek." A Schitt's Creek without Murphy exclaiming "Ew, David" and belting "A Little Bit Alexis" just wouldn't work!
