“And for me, those themes are present in my real life,” she says. Because they would not fucking have it if I did.”Įverett says Somebody Somewhere, which was co-created by High Maintenance alums Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, is really about “finding your people” and “re-engaging with the world” after losing a loved one. “But honestly it’s been really fun and cathartic and healing in a way to do a show back in Kansas.” And though the series is full of deeply personal details about her family, including her sister’s death and her mother’s alcoholism, she insists, “This is not like a hit piece on my family. “I had never thought about doing a show back in Kansas. “The live stage show is the juice, it drives me, it makes me very happy.” So instead of trying to recreate her onstage persona on screen, she asked herself, “What if Bridget Everett never moved to New York and stayed in Kansas?” “I’m not gonna lie, I became really, really depressed about it,” she says of her long hiatus from the stage. Despite earning nearly universal critical raves, Everett admits she felt “a little uncertain at first” about Somebody Somewhere, “because it’s a show that kind of wears its heart on its sleeve and that’s not always considered cool.” The low-key exploration of life by a group of mostly queer outsiders in her conservative hometown of Manhattan, Kansas, aka “the Little Apple,” is a far cry from the sweaty, booze-soaked bonanzas that Everett had been putting on for years at Joe’s Pub in the Big Apple-until the pandemic made her style of up close and personal cabaret nearly impossible.
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