My worst moment: ‘Pivoting’ star Eliza Coupe and blowing an audition with Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow
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Eliza Coupe stars in the Fox comedy “Pivoting” with Ginnifer Goodwin and Maggie Q, about three friends who pivot their life priorities after the death of their friend. For Coupe’s character, a local talk show producer, that means actually spending time with her young kids, despite her complete lack of maternal instincts or even a desire to be around her own children.
As an actor on shows such as the Chicago-set sitcom “Happy Endings,” Coupe has established herself as the queen of the acerbic line reading and perhaps that’s why “people don’t look at me and go, ‘Yeah, let’s have Eliza Coupe play the mother.’ Nobody’s doing that. I just don’t give off that vibe. But I know I can do it and I enjoy doing it. The way it was pitched to me was, ‘You have
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