The Tony-winning star reveals how playing the former first lady for Colbert helped people take her “seriously” as a comedic actress and led to her new solo show “Nobody Cares.”
and appeared in dozens of TV shows and movies since making her Broadway debut at 19 years old as Maria in. But as the title of her new solo stage show attests, she still reminds herself on a daily basis that “nobody cares” about her many accomplishments.
“So for me, a lot of the painful things that I’ve gone through in life are funny,” she adds. “And my hope is that it makes people laugh, and also, maybe at some level, enables them to look at a hard thing in their life through the lens of a sense of humor and go, like, OK, it is a little funny.” “We sort of stopped doing her as much as we had been on purpose,” Benanti explains. “We don’t want to give them quite as much air time. It never stopped being as funny. We were just like, he’s not going to be the president anymore, so, bye!”
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