
Bridget Everett isn't quite sure how she can be "a person somewhere." The show ended three seasons in late 2024, performing the show’s role and a powerful musical number, in which her character Sam is finally ready to accept the love and friendship of the community she created in her small homeland.
Everett told typeHer awards podcast for the HBO series. "I still think about them. I think of this show and people are walking towards me so it's always on me. I keep talking to people about it on the street and I feel uncomfortable talking to strangers and I really like it because it's personal to me. I love it, sometimes it's a deep relationship with it because they're a bit of a nose with some kind of grie."
"Somewhere" will play Everett as Sam, a woman who mourns the death of her sister while mourning another sister, Mary Catherine Garrison, who moved to Manhattan, Kansas. Along the way, she builds new bonds with friends like Joel (Jeff Hiller), eventually husband Brad (Tim Bagley) and Fred (Murray Hill).
“It changed me and helped me become more peaceful,” Everett said. “You dreamed of doing a show with someone you loved and in the way you wanted to tell a story and then, if you end up feeling better, I mean, like, what am I going to do now?
In this awards version of the awards tour, we address the question of what Everett will do next, how people in her hometown react to the spotlight, and how “someone’s somewhere” can really resonate with the audience. Also in this episode, we talk to Paul Giamatti about his outstanding plot of the season’s Black Mirror. Listen below!
Everett's voice is amazing as her cabaret, theatrical performances and other musical performances, including her band The Will Moments, can prove it. But the audience of “Someone” also likes that singing ability, especially in the show’s series finale.
"Nothing makes me happier than singing, nothing makes me sad," she said. "But it is really about finding a way to feel organic music in the process of sorting out the show. We never want to do a big, happy collaboration-style figure. We want to do some music, music is part of the structure of my life or Sam's life."
In the finale, Everett's character Sam takes her friend and sister to the bar where she works, singing Miley Cyrus's Climbing.
"I used to sing this song on some of my road shows, and I always loved it," she said. "It's sensual, and the lyrics on the nose are literal. But for me, I never get tired of singing."
In addition to solving grief, friendship, love and relationships, "someone" has also attracted attention in small towns that are rarely seen on TV. "My family, we all come from there - my brother still lives there, and mom lived there when she was still alive," Everett said. "I thought, I wanted them to be proud of it. I hope Manhattan is proud of it.
"We did the last watch party there and the actors were back with me," she said. "It felt like a rock concert in the room. It was so exciting. I was crying, just around all these people with people who were related to it. It felt like we got it for me."
Then what is next? "We're trying to dream about other things," Everett added. "What I want to do is right, but I want to do something."
The Variety Show Podcast, hosted by Clayton Davis, Jazz Tangcay, Emily Longeretta, Jenelle Riley and Michael Schneider, is your one-stop source for the best conversations on movies and TV. Each episode "Rewards Tour" has interviews with top films, TV talent and creativity, discussions and debates about awards and industry headlines, and more. Subscribe via Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Spotify or anywhere you download your podcast.