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Bridget Everett reflects on the life and death of her TV masterpiece Somebody Somewhere: “I can’t imagine anything else being this good.”
Everett studied opera in college and built a reputation as a full-throttle Valkyrie in Manhattan cabaret spaces; a vocal teacher back in the day described her having a voice “like a pack of wild horses.” Her performance style is as warm and intimate as it is audacious. But HBO did.” Everett’s new show would be produced by the Duplass brothers and showrun by fellow Midwesterners turned alternative downtown theater people Paul Thureen and Hannah Bos, who had written together on High Maintenance and Mozart in the Jungle. I hadn’t done it in five years, so I was a little rusty, but they were very patient with me.” She’s in the early stages of writing a book, centered around her borrowed–from–LL Cool J motto, “DDHD: Dreams don’t have deadlines.” For someone who took so naturally to television, wowing the industry vets who worked with her and beating the odds to get such an unlikely series made for three brilliant seasons, maybe Everett has too good of an attitude, too grounded a disposition and humane approach to filming, to rush into something new or create a media empire.
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