It just doesn't happen." But it happened. On Somebody Somewhere (October 27), Everett plays Sam, a woman struggling through a midlife crisis with the help of her family and colorful friends in rural Kansas. Set in her actual hometown, Everett says, "it's a lot of me that you're seeing, warts and all." "Even if you don't look like the people on the screen, you can relate to the things that they're going through.... Whether we're fat or we're short, or we're queer or whatever-we happen to all be those things-but that's not the focus. The focus of the story is just the human condition." And in season three we see just how far Sam has gone in her funny (sometimes uncomfortable) journey to find herself. "Her in season three is learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all. Whitney [Houston] said it first, Whitney said it best, but you know what? It's still true."What about depicting small-town America appealed to you?I'm from there. I'm born and raised there. I have family still there. I'm deeply rooted there. It originally was gonna happen in Emporia, Kansas, which is not where I'm from. And then I was like, let's drive to Manhattan [Kansas]. Then we got there, we're like, this is it. I was really excited by the idea, but I was also terrified because you don't want to misrepresent your home.The cast is also unique for a show about rural America.It does feel unique, but not to me because those are the people in my life. These are people that I find that I'm drawn to, and I think that people respond to it because you don't get to see people like this necessarily. There's all different kinds of people that you don't see on TV, but you don't see a lot of women in their 50s, a plus-size woman in her 50s, as a lead character on a show.Do you ever struggle with relying too much on being funny?I worry about it not being funny sometimes, because I'm just trying to be close to the bone as possible. I'm not trying to go too hard. We always say, don't put anything on it, just go in there and say that. But it's always when you strip all that away and you just are talking like we're talking in a room together, those are the best moments of the show and that's what always ends up on the screen.-H. Alan Scott

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