For some reason, it’s very emotional for me to throw up. I’ve thrown up so few times in my life that it’s always like you’re losing control. As acting challenges go, how would you rate that? There have to be some boundaries and rules.”īarb has a vomiting scene in the movie. But for me and my family and my mom, there was a clear distinction between mother and daughter. I certainly see people who do it, and it works for them. I think it’s weird… My mother was 38 when she had me, so there was no sisterhood thing. Geremy is such a wonderful director, and he did such a great job of making us feel comfortable that, even though it was something completely foreign to me, I felt confident that I could do it.īarb is the kind of mother who would want people to think that she and her daughter Patti are sisters. I was like, worst comes to worst, they could just use the parts where I sing… and hopefully that’ll be good. I was doing a dramatic role, which I’d never done before.
They wanted somebody who could sing and sing that style. I think also it made it appealing to them to cast me.
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Was getting to sing in the movie one of the appealing aspects of playing that character? Your performance as Barb in Patti Cake$ is unforgettable. Since I knew that was coming, that allowed me to not be so nervous. My friend Nadia was there, and she knew Jimmy, so it felt like not a big deal, even though I knew it was a big deal. I’ve met Questlove previously, and my friend Seth is a warm-up guy. It was my first time doing a network, late-night talk show, so I was kind of just, like, wacked out the entire time I was on there. Can you say something about the experience? © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reservedīridget, if you don’t mind, I’d like to begin by talking about your August 2017 appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, which went viral. Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures. I spoke with Bridget in August 2017, shortly before the film opened in theaters.ĭanielle Macdonald and Bridget Everett in the film PATTI CAKE$. For those who aren’t, you’ll have a new obsession by the end of the film.
In Patti Cake$, she makes her presence in the film known as she steals her debut scene, in which she orders not one, but three jagerbombs before declaring, “To family, right? Blood is thicker than Jäger.”įor those familiar with Bridget, it’s fitting.
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