Kevin Can F**k Himself's Mary Hollis Inboden: Annie Murphy and I became best friends over Zoom and Facetime before filming after I was cast on the show

Entertainment Weekly

"We have kind of an interesting story because we were cast in March of 2020, and so we were supposed to leave and move to Boston," Inboden tells EW. "And Annie and I became very, very fast friends when she texted me the night that I got cast. I'd met her once in our audition, and she was in Canada, so she didn't call, but she texted, 'I knew it was you, you bitch!' (Laughs) And I was out to dinner celebrating my new job and I didn't see it. And the next 10 messages were just her apologizing for having called me the B-word. And I was like, 'This woman is mine. This is my friend.' You could just see her anxiety for stepping out there a little too far. Of course, I didn't mind at all. I thought it was completely endearing. If any woman's going to call you a bitch, you want it to be Annie Murphy. But I'm telling you, the next 10 messages were like, 'I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have done that.' And she tells it now like she knew she was going to be fired for having such a crass message. We became best friends very quickly over Zoom and over FaceTime. And we talked a lot about the show, but also we just connected really quickly personally. We're about the same age and our experiences, though she's Canadian and I'm from Arkansas, are similar somehow. And so when we got to set, one of the hardest things to do was to act like we weren't friends. I remember us eating lunch together, and Valerie and our director of the third episode (Anna Dokoza) would catch us and want to separate us because inevitably the first take back would be Patty and Allison thick as thieves, best friends forever. That's not the story we're telling. So pumping the brakes on that was a challenge for both of us, even though we would consider ourselves to be fine actors."