Rebecca Mader Defends Her Sitcom 'Work It' From 'Bosom Buddies' Comparisons

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TVLINE | You’re a few weeks into taping the ABC midseason comedy Work It. You do realize you have a very hard sell ahead of you, dressing up the likes of Amaury Nolasco as a woman?

I think the opposite – who doesn’t want to see someone really hot and intense from Prison Break in a f–king dress? You’re gonna have to watch it to see how that turns out. The fact that it’s a hard sell is what’s going to make people go, “Dude, I’ve got to see this.” [Amaury] is so believable as a woman it freaks me out. He and Ben [Koldyke, How I Met Your Mother] get really lost in what they’re doing. They’re clearly dudes in a dress, but the hilarity of the show is that we all blindly buy it, and that makes it very British in that regard. It’s very farcical, Benny Hill-type humor.

TVLINE | Do you play a frosty Brit or “the Donna Dixon role”?

I’m definitely frosty, mmmm. My character is a little bit snotty, shall we say – but that’s so fun to play.

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