What’s more Canadian than a crime involving stolen maple syrup! The real-life heist, in which $18.7 million worth of maple syrup was stolen from a Quebec storage facility, is the basis for the new Prime Video show The Sticky, starring Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos, Guillaume Cyr, and featuring Jamie Lee Curtis.
The six-episode series starts by introducing us to Ruth Landry (Martindale) a maple syrup farmer who finds out her farm has been shut down, deemed an “un-licensed operator,” by the Quebec Maple Syrup Association, as she’s caring for her comatose husband. Fed up with the association, run by a man named Leonard (Guy Nadon), who’s not really Ruth’s biggest fan, she resorts to a maple syrup heist and enlists Bostonian gangster Mike Byrne (Chris Diamantopoulos) and a security guard with the Association, Remy Bouchard (Guillaume Cyr), in an attempt for Ruth to save her farm.
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But we have Curtis to thank for getting Martindale on The Sticky, giving us a particularly witty, tough and endearing portrayal of the show’s lead character. Curtis takes on a smaller role that appears near the end of the series, where she has a particularly great moment with Martindale.
“Jamie’s only criteria for taking the part was, ‘Can I flirt with Margo on camera?'” Brian Donovan, the show’s co-creator, executive producer, showrunner and writer told Yahoo Canada in Toronto. “We said yes and she was in.”
“She called me and said, ‘I want you to do this show.’ She said, ‘I was going to do it, but Halloween came into the picture and I can’t get out of it. So I thought, who can I think of that’s a lot like me?’ And she said, ‘You,'” Martindale shared. “I said, ‘Oh, really. In what world.'”
“I said, … I’d love to read it. She said, ‘No. You’re going to come do it.”
Donovan and Ed Herro, also a co-creator, executive producer, showrunner and writer on the show, highlighted that watching Curtis and Martindale together was a delight.
“Getting them together on set, it almost felt like a like a video game, like two about to fight each other,” Herro said. “So fun to watch them. … Then when the camera stopped, it was just a love fest.”