I’m not much of a dancer.
BILLY EICHNERI started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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We’re really fleshing out the whole world of the show [Difficult People]. It’s more of an ensemble now, whereas last season we were very focused on establishing the Billy/Julie friendship.
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Sometimes you go up to people who look totally normal and then you talk to them for a few seconds and you are like, Oh I better get out of this, because this person is a little mentally unbalanced, and they are not going to get a joke.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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I am invisible in gay bars.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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I spend the majority of my time in New York and LA. I feel like a large part of my following and my fans are probably in New York and LA because of the work that I do is very New York-LA-centric. So people do recognize me. But it’s nothing overwhelming at all.
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When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.
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You have to fight. You know, you don’t want to fight, but you have to fight to make your show your own, to make your voice be heard. You just have to sometimes.
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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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It was one of Hulu’s first original shows to really go out there. Now a year has passed, and the second season is getting a great response.
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Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn’t want to, the theme of my bar mitzvah party was Madonna.
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