![]() ![]() “It is a show that I hadn’t ever seen before,” he said, speaking by telephone. Hiller has often played small roles on TV, mostly waiters and, as he put it, “mean gay customer service representatives.” No show had ever wanted so much of him. That’s the main thing: Like, what were they going to do? Replace me with Kathy Bates?” “And we built it together - I knew I couldn’t get fired. “It’s because I lived with the project for so long,” she said. 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. Plans were made to resume shooting in September, but as case numbers rose, the producers pushed production again. Bos and Thureen wrote the script, interpolating some of Everett’s real experiences and a few verbatim quotes.Ī seven-episode series was greenlit early in 2020, then paused when the pandemic began. Everett and Jay Duplass, a director and executive producer on the show, took a research trip to Manhattan, Kan., so Duplass could meet her family, walk its not-so-mean streets and soak up what Everett suggested were its passive-aggressive vibes. “We didn’t want to do a snarky show,” Everett said. The show’s bittersweet message is that it’s never too late to find yourself, whenever and wherever you are. The second one is arguably Sam’s, though its comedy of chosen family is tinged with heartbreak. That first story is more or less Everett’s, though it took decades of restaurant work and a lot of sozzled karaoke nights before she had anything that could be called a career. There are plenty more about big-city transplants finding happiness only when they return home. There are plenty of stories about small-town kids who come to the city with a dollar and a dream, and make good. “They threw in the dead sister, and I was sold,” Everett said. Sam sits on the couch a lot in her underwear. 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. There’s far less censorship these days, especially on basic cable, but Goldthwait has taken a page from Serling’s writing style and deals with sensitive issues in a not-overt way.Sometimes Bridget Everett, the actress, comedian and self-proclaimed “cabaret wildebeest,” wonders what would have happened if she had never left Kansas. Goldthwait said he deeply appreciated how the show's creator, Rod Serling, was able to get around censorship to deal with hot button topics by telling stories in a different, often satirical way. ![]() His biggest influence when it comes to tone, structure and design came from being a huge fan of “The Twilight Zone” when he was growing up. The one place that’s undeniably Goldthwait’s voice is in the writing for “Misfits & Monsters,” as he wrote and directed all eight episodes. It’s like not wanting to know that Lou Costello had a normal voice,” Goldthwait said. “On some levels, even though they know the person I am playing is not a real character, it’s something they don’t want to admit. What he plays on stage and screen is far from the soft-spoken man chatting about the new TV show, but Goldthwait understands why he’s thought of in such a frantic light. Goldthwait, a New York native, came to prominence in the mid-1980s with the TV specials “An Evening with Bobcat Goldthwait - Share the Warmth” and “Bob Goldthwait - Is He Like That All the Time?” plus the “Police Academy” films. ![]()
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