![]() She’s the best person to work with she’s just funny and fun and so much more responsible than I would have been if I was running the show at her age,” Sweeney raves. “Just the whole thing of playing her mom is a dream. It also doesn’t hurt that she loves working with Bryant. Sweeney’s awareness of how lucky she was to be able to bounce back makes “Shrill” and her other gigs like “Work in Progress” and “American Gods” all the more sweeter. Sweeney plays Aidy Bryant’s mom in “Shrill.” ©Hulu/Courtesy Everett Collection “I thought, ‘Oh I really f–ked up! I really dropped the ball … then it really became important for me to come back and then it wasn’t until the last few years that I realized how likely it was that I would not be able to get my career back,” she says. Sweeney says she was content with her decision - until her daughter went to high school and became more independent. Meanwhile, the “God Said Ha!” star is back playing Aidy Bryant’s mother in the Hulu series “Shrill” after a decade-long absence that saw her essentially drop out of showbiz and move to Chicago to raise her daughter with husband Michael Blum. But she does concede that if she could do it over, there’s one thing she would change: She “wouldn’t Pat unattractive.” Julia Sweeney as “Pat” and now. Sweeney, 61, says she “actually loved Pat,” despite the character’s boom-and-bust turn in the spotlight. But also, Pat was conventionally unattractive and intentionally gross - so I definitely got laughs on that.” “In my mind, I was actually trying to explore how uncomfortable not having a gender was for the people around that person,” she tells Page Six. ![]() ![]() Given the climate around non-binary individuals and gender at large today, it goes without saying that Pat has not aged well.īut Spokane native Sweeney says that while she’s criticized for the character, she never intended for Pat to be hurtful. Sweeney’s character, an androgynous person whose impossible-to-determine gender made people around her uncomfortable, was one of the show’s most popular recurring bits in the early 1990s, even getting a feature film adaptation (which turned out to be a box-office dud). Of all of her “Saturday Night Live” tenure’s roster of impressions and characters, Julia Sweeney says she still gets “a lot of s–t” for one.
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