Sarah Cooper has perhaps had an even stranger 2020 than the rest of us.
It’s been a whirlwind and Cooper still can’t quite believe it herself.
“I was pinching myself the whole time,” the comedian tells EW.
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“Special circumstances require special action,” adds Rudolph.
(And yes, she also portrays the president herself.)
Sarah, what was going through your mind throughout the production of this special?
SARAH COOPER:Throughout the production, I was like, “Don’t get COVID.
Don’t ruin this entire production for everybody.”
I felt a lot of pressure to just keep it together.
And I think that was basically my M.O.
Every time I had a moment of, “Can I do this?”
I was just like, “I don’t have time to ask myself that question right now.”
Maya and Natasha, what was it that attracted you to Sarah’s comedy?
NATASHA LYONNE:I mean, it’s the only thing in this moment that really resonated and connected.
There are so many other ideas floating around that just seem, suddenly, like yesterday’s news.
COOPER:A lot of it was, you know, throwing out ideas.
Maya had this idea of like, “What about an asteroid?”
And like, “This MyPillow guyis nuts.
Can we do something with that?”
And then saying yes or no very quickly.
I think that spirit is alive and well in the special.
What was production like in the midst of quarantine?
LYONNE:It was a Herculean task at every phase.
And JC Molina’s an incredibly accomplished production designer who worked onLemonade.
And also, the challenges that existed were incredibly unanticipated.
Usually you have some, but they’re not in the realm of the way COVID changes shooting.
COOPER:And it wasn’t just COVID.
So it always sort of felt like, “I guess we’re scratching the right itch.”
Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fineis currently streaming on Netflix.
