Lisa Kudrow on her character with “goals on the wrong thing.”
Lisa Kudrow was recently up for an Emmy for her role as Valerie Cherish in “The Comeback.”
Kudrow has commented, “She’s not based on any one person in particular, it’s more about people who have their goals and their sights on the wrong thing. This is about a woman who has a husband and a nice home and is financially set. She doesn’t really need anything, except what she thinks her endlessly needy ego wants is to be in the spotlight.
“And it’s just like anybody we all know, who hasn’t done work on themselves and needs permission from the outside to like themselves. So it’s that person who is still looking for the rest of the world to tell them they’re OK. And as Michael [Michael Patrick King, the show co-creator with Kudrow] puts it, the best minefield for that person is to make her an actress around forty on television. That’s where you get the most torture, I think.”
> From interview on HBO site for the [canceled] show The Comeback (DVD)
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