That is until her coworker Joel (Jeff Hiller) invites her to “choir practice,” an unsanctioned, after-hours, LGBTQ-friendly party he holds weekly at his church. Working a dead-end job at a standardized-testing grading center and sleeping on her family’s couch rather than take over her sister’s room, Sam shows all the signs of approaching middle age without ever having fully launched. But six months after Holly’s death, she’s found herself stuck.
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The seven-episode series follows Sam, a 40-something woman who moved home to Manhattan, Kansas, to care for her dying sister, Holly. The Sam she’s referring to is her character on the new HBO show Somebody Somewhere, premiering on Sunday, January 16. And I like that about Sam because I feel like she’s a great representation of all the sides of me.” I have friends to check in on, but the person on-screen is wildly different than the real person.
“I don’t really leave my house that much. “I am very much an introvert in my real life,” she says. I think a lot of people learned that right out the gate, but it took me a minute.”īut for anyone who might mistake her for her stage persona or the slate of outlandish characters she’s played on Inside Amy Schumer, take note: Everett doesn’t have the energy to carry that kind of manic liveliness offstage. And it’s taken me a long time to learn that lesson. Don’t try to be anything else, and you will succeed. And the thing that I ultimately learned is be true to yourself. There’s a lot of us slugging it out, and the audiences will let you know right away if it works, if it doesn’t work, or if it’s genuine. “In New York, they don’t actually let you get away with anything,” she explains. After spending more than 10 years on the New York cabaret circuit, where she’s strutted, sang, joked, and regularly motorboated (consenting) audience members, Everett isn’t afraid of a little honesty. It’s a hilariously personal reveal - but then again, there’s a sense of openness in the way she moves across every topic. It’s only a few minutes into our conversation when Bridget Everett makes a joke about being premenopausal, warning me that I’ve got to get in fast, ask my question, and get out before she loses her train of thought.