JULIA SWEENEY WEIRD AL SERIES

Most are written by Maddy Court, the woman behind the lesbian meme account. And the answers are, obviously, much more helpful and ethically sound. Also, some of the situations were very dramatic, and I love other people’s drama.Įx-Girlfriend delivers that same kind of vulnerability in its questions, and it’s a hundred times more satisfying to read given that it’s all very queer. There’s something deeply relatable about that need for validation and help, regardless of the question at hand. But the interesting part of those Q&As for me was rarely ever the answers-it was more about the specific concerns, insecurities, and fears that drove women to reach out to a stranger for guidance. I’m not sure if I realized then that the advice they published was comically bad. More specifically, we were fixated on the advice section, where women wrote in with questions like “How do I know when I’m ready to have sex?” and “Why do I look terrible in low rise jeans?” We were poring over an issue of Cosmo, sneakily procured from the checkout line at a local supermarket. Our youth leaders may have assumed we were reading over some daily devotionals. One of my favorite photos to come out of six consecutive summers at church camp (!) is of my childhood best friend and I sitting lakeside, 14 years old, heads together, staring intently at something resting on the ground. Season 3 of “ Shrill” premieres on Hulu March 7.I’ve always loved an advice column. I think a lot of my difficulty there was my own sense of entitlement, like, ‘I’m a genius, why aren’t you putting me in everything?!'” I didn’t see the big picture - like anyone wouldn’t at 30 but would at 60. “I had my dramas, but I was myopic about myself. “It was such a great opportunity,” she explains. “I just look at her and think, ‘Wow, you have so many skills that I took 25 years to get.’ Like just to be able to give plain clear instructions to people and not get too caught up in having to be everybody’s best friend.”Īnd Sweeney looks back on her four-year run on “SNL” fondly - with the benefit of a little hindsight. She’s the best person to work with she’s just funny and fun and so much more responsible than I would have been if I was running the show at her age,” Sweeney raves. “Just the whole thing of playing her mom is a dream. It also doesn’t hurt that she loves working with Bryant. Sweeney’s awareness of how lucky she was to be able to bounce back makes “Shrill” and her other gigs like “Work in Progress” and “American Gods” all the more sweeter. Sweeney plays Aidy Bryant’s mom in “Shrill.” ©Hulu/Courtesy Everett Collection “I thought, ‘Oh I really f–ked up! I really dropped the ball … then it really became important for me to come back and then it wasn’t until the last few years that I realized how likely it was that I would not be able to get my career back,” she says. Sweeney says she was content with her decision - until her daughter went to high school and became more independent.

JULIA SWEENEY WEIRD AL SERIES

Meanwhile, the “God Said Ha!” star is back playing Aidy Bryant’s mother in the Hulu series “Shrill” after a decade-long absence that saw her essentially drop out of showbiz and move to Chicago to raise her daughter with husband Michael Blum. But she does concede that if she could do it over, there’s one thing she would change: She “wouldn’t Pat unattractive.” Julia Sweeney as “Pat” and now. Sweeney, 61, says she “actually loved Pat,” despite the character’s boom-and-bust turn in the spotlight. But also, Pat was conventionally unattractive and intentionally gross - so I definitely got laughs on that.” “In my mind, I was actually trying to explore how uncomfortable not having a gender was for the people around that person,” she tells Page Six. Given the climate around non-binary individuals and gender at large today, it goes without saying that Pat has not aged well.īut Spokane native Sweeney says that while she’s criticized for the character, she never intended for Pat to be hurtful. Sweeney’s character, an androgynous person whose impossible-to-determine gender made people around her uncomfortable, was one of the show’s most popular recurring bits in the early 1990s, even getting a feature film adaptation (which turned out to be a box-office dud). Of all of her “Saturday Night Live” tenure’s roster of impressions and characters, Julia Sweeney says she still gets “a lot of s–t” for one.

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