She’s good character, sweet and chatty, but with a real dark side to her. I have a very specific look with glasses and wacky clothes. “I can say there is drama, violence and magic. “It’s a great character that I can’t really talk about,” she says. When asked for details about her role, Sweeney demurs. Sweeney plays Hinzelmann, a North Germanic sprite, only now he’s in Wisconsin and he’s a woman, a sweet-faced Sweeney. One of the conceits of the show is that many of the characters are taken from mythology. Most recently, Sweeney landed a part on “American Gods,” the Starz fantasy drama based on Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name. In “Work in Progress,” Sweeney offers a heartfelt apology. But it became a tool for demeaning people. When she developed “Pat” at The Groundlings in the late 1980s, she wanted to expose how uncomfortable people were with gender ambiguity.
She didn’t create the character to make anyone feel bad, she says. In real life, Sweeney takes the criticism of “Pat” seriously. “Your character, Pat, who no one could tell was a man or a woman, ruined my life,” she tells Sweeney. She explains that when she was younger, people used Sweeney’s creation to mock her. When she first encounters Sweeney in a bar, McEnany confronts her. character “Pat.” In the show, co-written by and starring Abby McEnany, McEnany plays herself, a queer and gender-nonconforming Chicagoan. In one episode, she offers a glimpse of her androgynous S.N.L.
#JULIA SWEENEY SPOKANE SERIES#
Meanwhile, on the new Showtime comedy series “Work in Progress,” she plays herself in a recurring role. She plays West’s sweet, thoughtful mother. She now has a regular part on “Shrill,” a Hulu series based on the life of former Stranger columnist Lindy West. Sweeney would have been dismayed, but almost as soon as word was out that she had returned to L.A., the casting calls started coming in. When she took her show to L.A.-where it received great reviews and the performances sold out-no producers attended. “But then the opposite happened,” she says. “I would have this cute show, spend two years pounding the pavement and then afterward I would get some parts,” she says. Sweeney explained that her friend, actor Bob Odenkirk, encouraged her project, saying it would probably take her two years to get back into the acting game. As we sat in front of the fireplace at the Graduate Hotel, a winter storm brewed outside.
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