Date 31/05/2017 - News People
"But when I say that it was hard and that it was a reach for me, I mean: Those are the things that interested me as an actor," Goldie, the tough-love gatekeeper to fame and fortune for a rising wave of standup comics on "I'm Dying Up Here," which premieres Sunday at 10 p.m. EDT on Showtime. The 10-episode season dwells on a swarm of young comedians whose pilgrimage to stardom ? a career-launching spot on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show," then a sweet TV or movie deal ? has first led them to Goldie. Leo praised her character saying, "So much storytelling asks women to be somebody's something ? somebody's mother, somebody's wife, somebody's sidekick. Goldie is not like that."
