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Michael Urie Recalls Brittany Murphy’s “Sweet” Gesture After His ‘Uptown Girls’ Role Was Cut
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More than 20 years after he was left on the cutting room floor, Michael Urie recently opened up about his experience filming Uptown Girls (2003).
The Emmy-nominated actor said that the movie’s star, the late Brittany Murphy, “was so sweet” to him during his “half of day” of filming as her NYC heiress character Molly Gunn’s pig walker.
“It was one of my very first jobs and it was a movie and I hadn’t really done anything and I played a pig walker,” he explained in an Entertainment Weekly video.
So, the scene was with five dogs and a pig.”Urie added of Murphy, “She was so sweet and amazing as an actor.
'”Brittany Murphy in ‘Uptown Girls’ (2003) (MGM/Courtesy Everett Collection)In Uptown Girls, Molly (Murphy) lives a charmed life as the daughter of a deceased rockstar who left her everything, until her greedy wealth manager skips town with all her money.