About five years ago, she made a pilot for Amazon Prime Video with Sex and the City creator Michael Patrick King called Love You More. Somebody Somewhere is actually Everett’s second shot at television success. And you certainly don’t see a lot of women pushing 50 that are protagonists trying to just start their life at that age.”īridget Everett Is the Breakout TV Star Crashing Into 2022 Like a Wrecking Ball I know a lot of people that are in their thirties and forties and not quite connecting to the thing it is that they really want to do, or not finding a way to do it, or not fully giving themselves a chance to do it. And there’s nothing wrong with that, but if that’s not your dream, it’s going to leave you a little empty.”Įverett was a “karaoke queen” once a week and when she didn’t get to perform, she recalls, “I was just angry.
But there were many years when I was here in New York and my friends were becoming successful on Broadway and TV and movies and I was still a waitress. “And then in my late thirties, I found cabaret and started getting a little more successful at it. “The only real singing I was doing in my twenties and thirties was in karaoke bars,” she says. The actress says it wasn’t hard to put herself back in that mindset, because “there was a very long span” of her life when no one was giving her an opportunity to sing in public. And so then I just need to go home and sit with myself.”Įverett’s character, Sam, begins Somebody Somewhere without the emotional outlet of the stage and only starts to open up as she begins performing songs as part of the town’s underground queer-friendly “choir practice” nights. And I mean that from the heart to the tits,” she says. “Because I share quite a bit on stage, both emotionally and physically. But the “bigger and wilder” she got on stage, the more she felt like she “had to protect” her “real” self by becoming more withdrawn and even reclusive at times. “When I was younger, I was always getting in trouble for being a little too foul-mouthed or a little too obnoxious or a little too wild,” Everett adds. “I’m a wildebeest on stage, but in real life I’m an introvert who’s sad a lot, which isn’t very interesting, but it’s true.” “And for me, those themes are present in my real life,” she says. Because they would not fucking have it if I did.”Įverett says Somebody Somewhere, which was co-created by High Maintenance alums Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, is really about “finding your people” and “re-engaging with the world” after losing a loved one. “But honestly it’s been really fun and cathartic and healing in a way to do a show back in Kansas.” And though the series is full of deeply personal details about her family, including her sister’s death and her mother’s alcoholism, she insists, “This is not like a hit piece on my family. “I had never thought about doing a show back in Kansas. “The live stage show is the juice, it drives me, it makes me very happy.” So instead of trying to recreate her onstage persona on screen, she asked herself, “What if Bridget Everett never moved to New York and stayed in Kansas?” “I’m not gonna lie, I became really, really depressed about it,” she says of her long hiatus from the stage.
Update your settings here to see it.ĭespite earning nearly universal critical raves, Everett admits she felt “a little uncertain at first” about Somebody Somewhere, “because it’s a show that kind of wears its heart on its sleeve and that’s not always considered cool.” The low-key exploration of life by a group of mostly queer outsiders in her conservative hometown of Manhattan, Kansas, aka “the Little Apple,” is a far cry from the sweaty, booze-soaked bonanzas that Everett had been putting on for years at Joe’s Pub in the Big Apple-until the pandemic made her style of up close and personal cabaret nearly impossible.
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