![]() ![]() She was the mother of that funny kid.’ I think now things have shifted, which is why I took this role. It’s like, ‘Oh, she was the wife of that funny guy. “It’s usually portrayed as a stock character. “Things have shifted greatly now for female roles, but in the past, to play the wife or the girlfriend or the mother - when usually it’s the men who get the meatier roles or the comedy - has just never been appealing to me,” she said. She’s kind of the alter-ego, or Amy is her alter-ego.” Amy (Eliza Coupe), Jodie (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Sarah (Maggie Q) are three friends who get into wacky hijinx on “Pivoting.”Ĭoupe has also been reluctant to play a mother in the past because she didn’t see many opportunities in what was offered. With this show, it was a similar moment where I was like, ‘Can I do this?’ And I tapped into. But when I approached ‘Happy Endings,’ I tapped into my old New England roots of the women that I grew up with, my aunts and my mother. “Although I’ve been married, I’m not married now and the whole domestic thing is difficult for me to wrap my head around just in general,” she said. “The funny thing is that it was like with ‘Happy Endings.’ That role was such a departure from who I am - being the wife,” said Coupe, referring to the popular ABC series where she played Jane, the spouse of Brad (Damon Wayans Jr.) Eliza Coupe and Damon Wayans Jr played a happily married couple on “Happy Endings.” ©ABC/Courtesy Everett Collectio Sarah (Maggie Q), Amy (Eliza Coupe) and Jodie (Ginnifer Goodwin) are three pals making big life changes in “Pivoting.”Īlthough Amy is different from who Coupe is in real life, she found inspiration in which to base her character. There’s Amy (Coupe), a TV producer with two kids who feels ill-at-ease with being a mom decides to try to become better at motherhood housewife Jodie (Ginnifer Goodwin), who gets more into fitness and strikes up a flirtation with a trainer at her gym and successful doctor Sarah (Maggie Q), who quits medicine to work at a grocery store. 9 (8:30 p.m.) on Fox, and helmed by Liz Astrof (“2 Broke Girls”), “Pivoting” follows three friends who, after losing the fourth member of their group to cancer, feel motivated to make dramatic life changes and “pivot.” ![]() ![]() Let’s be flexible in every possible way.’ So doing a role like this is actually a beautiful opportunity to explore what it is to be, which I’m not.” “But I’ve had to really look at that, like, ‘OK, but you’re an actor. “I’ve never been drawn to doing a traditional family show, only because I feel as though it’s not in alignment with what I chose to do with my life. “I am usually very opposed to taking roles where I have to play a mother, because I’ve never wanted to put myself in that box in real life or in TV,” Coupe, 40, told The Post. They seldom rely on other people in daily life, which can make them impatient when dealing with others.The prospect of playing a mom on the new Fox series “Pivoting” was daunting for “Happy Endings” star Eliza Coupe. People born in the Year of the Rooster are honest, observant and hardworking. The 42-year-old American was born in the Year of the Rooster and is part of Millennials GenerationĪccording to Chinese Zodiac, Eliza was born in the Year of the Rooster. During the Eighties, Berlin Wall crumbled, new computer technologies emerged and blockbuster movies and MTV reshaped pop culture. The 1980s was the decade of big hair, big phones, pastel suits, Cabbage Patch Kids, Rubik’s cubes, Yuppies, Air Jordans, shoulder pads and Pac Man. Eliza Coupe is turning 43 inĮliza was born in the 1980s. Eliza Kate Coupe attended Plymouth Regional High School and California Institute of the Arts, University of California at Berkeley. She co-starred on the ABC television show Happy Endings with Elisha Cuthbert. Talented actress known for playing Denise in the television series Scrubs and Jane Kerkovich-Williams in ABC’s Happy Endings. Eliza Coupe is popular for being a TV Actress.
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