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‘Monarch’: Joshua Sasse on the ‘Surreal’ Shania Twain Cameo
27.09.2022 - 21:45 / thewrap.com
“Monarch’s” Luke Roman (Joshua Sasse) found himself dealing with a diva situation in last week’s episode of the Fox country music drama, when backstage at his mother’s memorial service, Shania Twain (playing herself) refused to perform. Twain didn’t want to hit the stage because she and the late Dottie Roman (Susan Sarandon) were frenemies after – in this universe – Dottie stole “Man! I Feel Like a Woman.” “Your mother was never nice to me. Bitch stole my song,” Twain quipped to Sasse’s character Luke.
And the whole scene ended up being a very unique experience, Sasse said.“It was hilarious. It was just fantastic,” Sasse told TheWrap. “We didn’t really talk before we went in, she’d just flown in from Switzerland, where she lives.
And as the day happened, I was already in the dressing room waiting for it to happen, and so we just went straight into our rehearsal. And so Shania comes in. But she’s Shania.
Playing Shania. And so, it was very surreal.”Sasse, who starred as the titular character in ABC’s 2015-2016 musical series “Galavant,” has worked with many trained singers across his career, but acting opposite an icon like Twain was a new experience.“I’ve been so lucky, I’ve had a really very varied career,” he continued. “In ‘Galavant’ we got to work with a lot of big, surreal names, but they were [playing] characters.
And so with this, when she’s playing herself, and she’s doing the whole number, it was just surreal. It was great. And she’s so charming, and was so game for a laugh.
And some of that scene was ad-lib. She was so good. I felt like I was being outplayed.”On Fox’s new fall drama “Monarch,” about the first family of country music attempting to keep their family legacy alive after the series premiere death of
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