This week on Bullseye, Jordan chats with Bridget Everett about the second season of Somebody Somewhere, her journey to acting, and how she's found her footing on stage. She's also the host of the terrific Maximum Fun podcast Feeling Seen where guests dive deep into the first time they saw themselves represented on screen. Jordan's a writer who's covered films for Vulture and Inverse. Interviewing Bridget Everett is correspondent Jordan Crucchiola. It's a semi-autobiographical comedy set in the same Manhattan, Kansas that Bridget grew up in. These days, Bridget stars on Somebody Somewhere. In the "Big Apple," she started singing in clubs before eventually forming a comedy cabaret. When the time for college came around, she moved to Arizona for school before landing in New York City. She grew up in Manhattan, Kansas - the "Little Apple" of the Midwest. “Somewhere Somebody” premieres on HBO Max on January 16.Bridget Everett talks "Somebody Somewhere" : Bullseye with Jesse Thorn Bridget Everett is a comedian and singer. “If you bring a bottle of chardonnay and Cheetos or edibles then the door is open,” she exclaimed. “If it was up to me, I’d stick at home, stare at the walls and daydream, but she’s like ‘C’mon, let’s go out and take a walk in the park, let’s go out and drink some wine, let’s experience life a little,’ so that’s good for me in a way.”īut the Tender Moments frontwoman confessed that her friends know it’s best to come to Everett’s Upper West Side apartment if they want to see her. “Amy gets me out of the house,” Everett explained. Her tendency towards being a homebody is one reason she appreciates her close friendship with Amy Schumer. “When I’m on stage, I’m in control, I can do whatever I want, I can sing what’s on my mind, I drink as much as I want and then I go home and sort of reflect on it and that’s good enough for me,” she said with a laugh. Interestingly, despite her electric stage presence Everett is surprisingly low-key in her personal life. “We all have blood and a heart that beats, so what’s the big deal?” Everett with Jeff Hiller on HBOMax series, “Somebody Somewhere.” HBO/YouTube “Some people’s are high and tight, mine are hanging,” the “Lady Dynamite” actress matter-of-factly says of her breasts. “My mom always used to walk around in the ’80s with no bra and was not body-conscious at all, and for me, that’s been just it. Part of “too much” includes her free approach to her body, she says. The “Patti Cake$” star admitted to still being in a state of shock over her success, because until she moved to New York, she was constantly told she was too much, too out there, too loud - too everything. The performer, 49, declined to go into details but did reveal that “it involved a razor and there was some nudity.”Įverett, who has been electrifying audiences in New York for years now, has a shot at a larger audience with the HBO show “Somebody Somewhere,” which is loosely based on her life and hometown of Manhattan, Kansas. “I remember years ago when I was on stage and I was still finding my way and I was going pretty wild and my friend Murray Hill sat me down afterward and said, ‘Ok kid, I think you’ve gone a step too far,'” she remembered with a laugh. ‘Succession’ shocker is something writers ‘discussed every season’ĭespite being famous for her wild cabaret performances, Bridget Everett does remember one instance when she took things too far.
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