“And we built it together - I knew I couldn’t get fired. Finding one’s voice and being brave enough to use it is at the heart of her latest project, Somebody Somewhere.Developed by Everett alongside showrunners Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, the new HBO series considers what the comedian’s life might have looked like had she never left her hometown of Manhattan, Kansas (or the little apple, as one character calls it).
“It’s because I lived with the project for so long,” she said.
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In the past, film and TV shoots had unnerved Everett, often to the point of intestinal discomfort. “It was a set for people who really wanted to be there.” “That made the set really fun,” Bos said. Hagerty, who recurred on “Friends,” has perhaps the most credits, but no one is what you would call famous. Most of the cast, Everett included, had never played roles this substantial. The cast and crew arrived in Lockport this spring and shot as quickly as they could, sometimes locking down a scene in only two or three takes. Bridget Everett Shows Off Her Softer Side in Somebody Somewhere Fri, 10:00:17 +0000 2 Somebody Somewhere, a bittersweet comedy on HBO, will likely surprise viewers who know Everett as a self-proclaimed cabaret wildebeest. Plans were made to resume shooting in September, but as case numbers rose, the producers pushed production again. Sam sits on the couch a lot in her underwear.Ī seven-episode series was greenlit early in 2020, then paused when the pandemic began. She has a soul-eating job at an educational testing center and various family obligations - a father (Mike Hagerty) with a struggling farm, a mother (Jane Brody) with addiction issues, and a sister (Mary Catherine Garrison) with a wobbly marriage and an Instagrammable approach to evangelical Christianity. After years of bartending in a big city, Sam has returned to her hometown.
(Not very close, as it turns out, though Everett said that the sides were delicious.) She was joined by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, the creators of “Somebody Somewhere,” a wistful Kansas-set half-hour comedy that arrives Sunday on HBO.Įverett, 49, stars as Sam, a woman whose biography parallels her own, to a point. This was on a Monday afternoon in mid-December at John Brown BBQ, a purveyor of Kansas City-style barbecue in Queens, which is to say the closest that a person can get to Kansas within the New York City limits. “I would probably work in a restaurant and have two D.U.I.s and sit on the couch a lot in my underwear.” “I’d probably live in Kansas City, or Lawrence,” she said. Sometimes Bridget Everett, the actress, comedian and self-proclaimed “cabaret wildebeest,” wonders what would have happened if she had never left Kansas.