Actually our headline is slightly misleading as The Divine Miss M was recently seen on our screens in the Ben Platt drama The Politician.
But she has been busy during the COVID lockdown starring in a COASTAL ELITES a socially distance satire which has been filmed remotely for HBO Max. Bette plays a ‘leftie’ woman who’s seemingly in a police station after an altercation with a Trump supporter. “He’s wearing jeans and a windbreaker, and the hat. The red hat. You know the one, the MAGA hat. In New York City! Two blocks from the public theatre!” she exclaims.
Schitt’s Creek star Dan Levy is going gay again, this time as an actor taking part in a therapy session “Yes, sometimes I say gay, and sometimes I say queer, and sometimes I just show people a picture of myself at Halloween in high school dressed as Julianne Moore in The Hours.”
And the equally fabulous queer actress Sarah Paulson has us in stitches as Clarissa Montgomery, a woman hosting a meditation class via livestream who seems to sum up the last few months/years best as she says: “Take a deep, healing breath, and imagine you’re not even on Twitter, or Facebook… or Xanax…”
The project which also stars Issa Rae, and Kaitlyn Dever was written by our favorite queer funny writer Paul Rudnick and is directed by Jay Roach. It will premiere on September 12.
Labels: 2020, Bette Midler, Castro, HBO, TV
