LA Complex just your average day for Cassie Steele

From Bill Harris of QMI Agency:

  • ‘The L.A. Complex’ is not too shabby
    Please, Cassie Steele, tell us The L.A. Complex is not a documentary of your life. “Oh my gosh, I know, it’s so scary how similar it is to so many people, including myself, of actors who go down from Toronto to L.A. and just the struggle they go through,” Steele said. “So basically I’m a Method actor.” Read more.
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Little Mosque “radical in its non-radicalness”

From Sonya Bell of The National:

  • From humble beginnings to global success for Muslim sitcom
    The concept was radical in its non-radicalness: a television series about Muslims who were neither extremist nor oppressed. Five years ago this January, the writer Zarqa Nawaz created something no one had seen before: a sitcom about ordinary Muslims living alongside non-Muslims in North America. They laughed. They cried. They got interrogated at airports. Read more.
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Little Mosque leaves the prairies

From Gayle MacDonald of the Globe and Mail:

  • Little Mosque leaves the Prairies
    When Sheila McCarthy got the call asking if she’d be up for a part in CBC’s quirky comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie, the veteran actress first thought her agent was pulling her leg. “I remember thinking is that title for real?,” laughs McCarthy, lounging on a sofa in a makeshift mayor’s office during a break last June while filming the sixth, and final, season of the show. “Then I read the script, which struck me as a fun, sweet Lucy-Desi-type comedy. So I thought, sure, this’ll be a fun little job. I’ll go and hang out in Regina for a few weeks. But I really believed it would be a one-off.” Read more.

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