It’s something Hiller also understands, joking that the majority of his career has seen him play a lot of waiters and bitchy customer service representatives. It was a moment Everett took to heart, especially as she understands she doesn’t fit the mold of what networks might be looking for. “I was like, ‘This is silly, right?’ And Adam was like, ‘That sounds like a hit!'” Everett said. While playing Everett started singing a song about different kinds of breasts.
She recalls playing basketball in Brooklyn with friends Murray Hill (who plays the wonderfully named Fred Rococo in the series), and musical artists Champagne Jerry and Adam Horvitz of the Beastie Boys. “What I’ve discovered over the past 20 years of a lot of hustle is just that every time I’m clear to who I am, and more specific to who I am, the better things are gonna go,” said Everett. Sam can be sexy and confident, but also messy and struck with an inner hurt and depression that causes her to push people away. Everyone associated with the project mentions the “Bridget-fication” of the show, especially Bos who was struck by the many sides of Everett. “When you watch her on stage, you’re not like, ‘She seems sweet.’ You’re like, ‘Whoa, she’s fire and if I touch her I might get burned.’ So I was a little bit scared,” he said.
Since each had toured the same comedy clubs, Hiller knew Everett - “mainly we would trade cat and dog pictures” - but he initially felt intimidated working opposite her. Thureen said he struggles to remember his prom but remembers the car rides, listening to music with his friends, and just searching for someplace to go. “I was like, ‘I can’t believe I’m just watching two people in a Le Sabre, and I’m dying laughing.” Whether one lives in the Midwest or not, it’s impossible not to be charmed and find something relatable in these moments of Joel and Sam bonding while driving. “That’s a very Midwest thing, being stuck in cars,” said Bos.
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Thureen and Bos, long-time best friends themselves, always knew they wanted to focus on a platonic relationship in the series and part of the show’s uniqueness is in watching Sam and Joel driving around in search of something to do. Which is why the central relationship that blossoms throughout the show is the friendship between Sam and Joel (Jeff Hiller), her optimistic coworker who pushes Sam to be a stronger version of herself. “And Sam’s journey to come back to life is small steps, but they’re big moments.” Everett also didn’t want Sam to make any transformations out of a need for a romantic relationship. “Every time we tried to make the show have bigger events, that’s when it felt like it was slipping away,” Everett said. In fact, it was crucial to Everett, who is part of the show’s writer’s room and whose life the show is loosely based on, that Sam wasn’t going to be changed by the end.
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Paul Thureen and Hannah Bos are both from the Midwest themselves and often write stuff about that part of the world, as well as examining lives that usually aren’t considered worthy of being on TV. It’s a show “where things happen in the cracks between what stories normally focus on,” co-creator Paul Thureen told IndieWire. It’s a simple statement for a show that is seeking to buck the trend of what a television show looks like. It’s been a long time coming for not just Everett, but the entire cast and creative team. But there’s something similarly satisfying with seeing hard work pay off, as it has with the HBO’s new series “ Somebody Somewhere.” Comedienne Bridget Everett plays Sam, a Kansas woman struggling to find direction in the wake of her sister’s death. It’s this fantasy that is at the heart of why we love watching television. We know Hollywood is a landscape of dreams broken, delayed, and often unseen.
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