Maggie Q, Ginnifer Goodwin and Eliza Coupe star as three buddies making main life adjustments in "Pivoting."
The prospect of enjoying a mother on the brand new Fox collection “Pivoting” was daunting for “Comfortable Endings” star Eliza Coupe.
“I'm often very against taking roles the place I've to play a mom, as a result of I’ve by no means wished to place myself in that field in actual life or in TV,” Coupe, 40, instructed The Put up. “I’ve by no means been drawn to doing a conventional household present, solely as a result of I really feel as if it’s not in alignment with what I selected to do with my life.
“However I’ve needed to actually take a look at that, like, ‘OK, however you’re an actor. Let’s be versatile in each doable approach.’ So doing a task like that is really a stupendous alternative to discover what it's to be [a mother] , which I’m not.”
Premiering Sunday, Jan. 9 (8:30 p.m.) on Fox, and helmed by Liz Astrof (“2 Broke Ladies”), “Pivoting” follows three buddies who, after dropping the fourth member of their group to most cancers, really feel motivated to make dramatic life adjustments and “pivot.”
There’s Amy (Coupe), a TV producer with two youngsters who feels ill-at-ease with being a mother decides to attempt to change into higher at motherhood; housewife Jodie (Ginnifer Goodwin), who will get extra into health and strikes up a flirtation with a coach at her gymnasium; and profitable physician Sarah (Maggie Q), who quits drugs to work at a grocery retailer.
Though Amy is totally different from who Coupe is in actual life, she discovered inspiration through which to base her character.
“The humorous factor is that it was like with ‘Comfortable Endings.’ That position was such a departure from who I'm — being the spouse,” mentioned Coupe, referring to the favored ABC collection the place she performed Jane, the partner of Brad (Damon Wayans Jr.)
“Though I’ve been married, I’m not married now and the entire home factor is tough for me to wrap my head round simply basically,” she mentioned. “Therefore, why I’m divorced. However after I approached ‘Comfortable Endings,’ I tapped into my previous New England roots of the ladies that I grew up with, my aunts and my mom. With this present, it was the same second the place I used to be like, ‘Can I do that?’ And I tapped into [showrunner Liz Astrof]. She’s sort of the alter-ego, or Amy is her alter-ego.”
Coupe has additionally been reluctant to play a mom prior to now as a result of she didn’t see many alternatives in what was provided.
“Issues have shifted enormously now for feminine roles, however prior to now, to play the spouse or the girlfriend or the mom — when often it’s the lads who get the meatier roles or the comedy — has simply by no means been interesting to me,” she mentioned. “It’s often portrayed as a inventory character. And also you don’t bear in mind these folks. It’s like, ‘Oh, she was the spouse of that humorous man. She was the mom of that humorous child.’ I believe now [that] issues have shifted, which is why I took this position. We, as a collective, have made feminine roles extra multi-dimensional.”
Apart from “Pivoting” and “Comfortable Endings,” Coupe has had a prolific profession with stints on “Scrubs,” “Future Man” and “Quantico” amongst others – however she mentioned that “Comfortable Endings” remains to be what she’s mostly related to, regardless of that collection having a brief run from 2011-2013.
“The funniest factor that’s been taking place just lately is that I’ll be at a yoga class or in a grocery store and folks might be like, ‘I didn’t acknowledge your face, however I heard your voice and that’s how I knew it was you.’ It’s hilarious. Persons are discovering me on Instagram now they usually’re like, ‘When is the following season of ‘Comfortable Endings’ popping out?’ And I’m like, ‘You’re late to the get together, that ship sailed!’”
But when a chance got here up for a revival of that collection, she would take part, she mentioned. “100%. Completely.”
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