The Ballad of Bridget Everett

From her wild cabaret act to her intimate HBO series, the actor hits all the right notes

- LISA TOZZI

BRIDGET EVERETT still has restaurant stress dreams. Never mind that she is a writer, star, executive producer, and the driving force behind Somebody Somewhere, the critically acclaimed, cult-favorite HBO show about a directionless woman who moves back to her hometown in middle age (Season Two premieres April 23). When Everett sleeps, it’s the screaming customers and missing orders from her days as a server that haunt her.

“It’s really weird, because of all the things that you could have a stress dream about, producing a television show — it’s so fucking stressful,” she says. “But what I dream about is ‘Where’s my fucking food?! Where’s my goddamned spicy tuna roll?!’ When you’re doing that for 25, 30 years, it’s in the bones.”