The Summer time I Turned Fairly Fairly‘s Sean Kaufman is again on our TV screens — however his character isn’t as profitable at love this time round.
In Us Weekly‘s unique clip from the Friday, December 12, episode of NBC’s sitcom Stumble, Kaufman performs a pupil named Holden who tries to flirt with cheerleader Sally (Georgie Murphy).
“I believe that soccer participant over there likes you,” Sally’s teammate Madonna (Arianna Davis) says. Sally seems confused and replies, “What? No, he doesn’t.”
Holden provides Sally a paper the place he wrote that he likes her, however she passes it to Madonna. He then provides her one other be aware that clarifies he meant to present it to Sally.
“I believe that is for you,” Sally tells Madonna. “He thinks your title is Sally.”
The group is interrupted by cheer coach Courteney (Jenn Lyon), who warns her class to not “drink out of” the water fountain and asks, “The place’s all the varsity spirit in his place? Why is no one carrying faculty colours — particularly my cheerleaders?”
In accordance to the official episode synopsis, Courteney “is attempting desperately to deliver spirit to Heådltston, nevertheless it’s unimaginable.” Her staff heads to Sammy Davis Sr. Junior School for his or her homecoming recreation, which reminds Courteney “of how a lot spirit her old-fashioned has [before] she’s compelled to cheer in opposition to Boon.”
NBC’s Stumble is a mockumentary that explores the extremely aggressive world of junior school cheerleading. Along with Lyon, Murphy and Davis, the present stars Kristin Chenoweth, Taran Killam, Ryan Pinkston, Jarrett Austin Brown, Anissa Borrego and Taylor Dunbar.
The sequence is impressed by the Netflix hit Cheer and Navarro School coach Monica Aldama, who’s an government producer on the challenge. Earlier than the November premiere, Lyon opened up about pulling inspiration from Aldama, 53, for Stumble whereas nonetheless making the character her personal.
“Monica is on the web page. The writers have created an excellent character to play, nevertheless it undoubtedly is impressed by Monica,” Lyon solely informed Us. “She is hard as nails and inscrutable at factors. However the way in which she is stern however loving, the way in which she’d provide the shirt off her again, the way in which she is pushed and dedicated is all around the DNA of the character.”
Lyon famous that Courtney is “totally different” from Aldama in some ways.
“She’s acquired points of Monica, however studying her on the web page and attending to collaborate with the writers, the creators and the director, we fleshed out how we wished Courtney to be — together with her stage of heat and wackiness,” Lyon teased. “I like to journey over issues on the ground. I like to run right into a doorjamb. These are issues that Monica doesn’t do.”
Stumble marks Kaufman’s first position since wrapping Prime Video’s hit sequence The Summer time I Turned Fairly. All through the present, which aired its finale in September, Kaufman’s character Steven discovered love with Taylor (Rain Spencer).
Kaufman, 25, is anticipated to return for the upcoming The Summer time I Turned Fairly function movie — however he’s additionally excited to strive one thing new.
“The one standards [for each new project] is it must be totally different. So I actually favored stepping out of the consolation zone of a YA present and entering into horror and this VFX world and sci-fi,” he informed Us in August, referring to a task on season 5 of For All Mankind and within the supernatural horror movie Different Mommy. “It was such a brand new problem for me.”
Stumble airs on NBC Fridays at 8:30 p.m. ET earlier than streaming the following day on Peacock.
