BRIDGET EVERETT BOSTON LICENSE
BRIDGET EVERETT BOSTON SERIES

'There are those moments when somebody says 'love the sinner, hate the sin' or something like that, but there are progressive people that live in my hometown. 'We didn't want to do a show that was super political or looking down on the community where we were, because it's also really not how life happens,' Everett explains. In the Manhattan, Kansas of the show there is a strong faith-based conservative streak, but also a thriving queer community. Somebody Somewhere is a quietly groundbreaking portrayal of a part of America that rarely is represented with the kind of nuance for which Everett, Hiller, Bos, and Thureen are striving. 'Bridget would make homemade margaritas that taste…' Hiller pauses for dramatic effect before raising his voice, 'good.' (She wouldn't share the recipe.) HBO 'But had all the enthusiasm of a Rudy Ruettiger trying to get into Notre Dame.' On Saturday nights they would order pizza and dance it out. 'Murray had a much lighter schedule than Jeff and I,' Everett says. They would all eat dinner together, and then Hill would help, nay demand, everyone run lines. They shared a house along with Murray Hill-the legendary drag king, who plays 'choir practice' emcee Professor Dr. Like Joel and Sam, Jeff and Bridget quickly became more than just mere colleagues when filming in Illinois-which stood-in for Kansas. 'This is just like me and so much so that I had a stress rash in seventh grade, for real, because of bullies.' Joel, the audience learns, gets stress rashes too. 'This role was obviously written for Bridget, but it was not written for me and still as the scripts came in, each script, I was like, 'Oh, God, that's me too,'' he says. She thought of him when casting for Joel and it turned out to be a perfect match. (That night, he did a, in his words, 'dramatic interpretation of Rihanna's 'Only Girl (In the World),'' during which he slowly got into drag and begged a male audience member to think of him instead of his wife.) 'I would say that we were friendly and I had a lot of respect for Jeff, but we weren't like Sunday nights, all you can drink, Chardonnay buffet friends,' Everett explains. He was starstruck when she asked him to perform at one of her shows. Hiller and her knew of each other, but not well. Her bawdy cabaret act, which calls The Public Theater's Joe's Pub its home, features diddies like 'Titties,' Chardonnay-swigging, and audience interactions that include motorboating, facesitting, and fondling.

BRIDGET EVERETT BOSTON LICENSE

In the context of the series, 'choir practice' gives Everett license to sing, which is how she became a New York City phenomenon.

BRIDGET EVERETT BOSTON SERIES

Throughout the rest of the series they are thick as thieves, each other's platonic soulmates. They become fast friends as he introduces her his world, which includes 'choir practice,' a queer gathering he runs at his church under that semi-secretive moniker. She's working at a standardized test grading facility when she reunites with her high school acquaintance Joel-he remembers her she does not remember him. Everett plays Sam, a woman who has returned home to Kansas following the death of her sister. While Somebody Somewhere was created by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen with Everett in mind, and Everett weaved her personal experiences into the plot, she found an ideal match in Hiller, a kindred spirit, another downtown New York theater artist finally having an on screen moment. I love you so much,' she says as she moves to a different part of the apartment to avoid his very cute but very pitiful stares.) 911.'' (Speaking of dogs: Our interview is interrupted a couple of times by Everett's neighbor's dog Arlo who appears at her back door, wanting attention. I was going to text Jeff and be like, 'Uh oh. ''You do a tee-tee pah-pah?' In fact, I just did a tee-tee pah-pah before I came on here. 'Tee-tee pah-pah is something that I said to my dog Poppy,' she says over a recent video chat. It just goes to show you how in sync these two are.

It's a line that Hiller does so well-and 'Tee-Tee Pah-Pah' is in fact the name of the episode-that it almost seems like something he could have come up with himself.īut, no, it's actually from the mind of star and executive producer Bridget Everett. Hiller's character Joel has just adopted this adorable pup in a crisis of faith, and it all seems to be going very badly, but even amid impending weather Joel's sweet midwestern optimism keeps him saying 'tee-tee' and 'pah-pah' instead of pee and poop. In the most recent episode of HBO's sleeper hit Somebody Somewhere, Jeff Hiller asks a puppy if he needs to go 'tee-tee' or 'pah-pah' in the middle of a field with a Kansan tornado on the horizon.

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