So we called Carolyn and HBO and we were like, “We found our Joel!” and they were like, “Wonderful, where’s the tape?” and we were like, “Well, we didn’t tape it, just trust us,” and they were like, “That’s not how it works.” He first came with Jay Duplass - we were in Brooklyn for the audition and we were like, oh my god, this is our Joel. We all worked in the writer’s room and we all worked it out trying to make it as Kansas-y and as Sam-y as we could.Įverett: Jeff auditioned twice, by the way.
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I got together with Carolyn Strauss, who is an incredible TV legend, and then we met with Paul and Hannah, our showrunners, and they pitched this idea for a show and it really just hit me in the gut - like it was really cool and it wasn’t something I would think of, to do an origin story in a way. To start off - for both of you, how did this show come together for you?īridget Everett: I got a deal with HBO to make a show, so that started it. While both actors have been working on screen for years both on the New York stage as well as in featured roles across projects including Inside Amy Schumer, Lady Dynamite, 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and more, they also were careful to hold onto their survival jobs for as long as necessary. The show is a sometimes sweet, sometimes sad, and more often than not very funny look at what it means to try to reawaken after years of sleepwalking through life, anchored by the deep and complex friendship between its central characters.ĭuring a recent press day, Consequence was lucky enough to speak with Everett and Hiller about making the show and how it connects with their own lives - given that both of them know an awful lot about the struggle of being an artist of any kind.
sister, working a dull job, and in general feeling a bit lost in life - until, that is, she becomes closer to Joel (Jeff Hiller), an old high school classmate who helps reawaken in her a passion for music.
The new HBO comedy, executive produced by the Duplass brothers and directed in part by Jay Duplass, stars Bridget Everett as Sam, a 40-something resident of small-town Kansas who’s mourning her deceased. Once you know the premise, you realize there’s no other possible title for Somebody Somewhere.