Jeff Hiller Confesses RuPaul Is the Celebrity He Most Wants to Meet at His First Emmys

Jeff Hiller’s first Emmy nomination for his three-season run as Joel on the HBO comedy Somebody Somewhere is still sinking in. “My husband, he’ll be like, ‘I’m getting a wave again,’ ” Hiller says. “It feels that way for me, too, where I’m like, ‘Wait, I get to go to L.A., I’m going to get to wear something fun.’ Somebody just told me they have swag suites. I was like, ‘What?!’ “

The semi-autobiographical series is inspired by the life of its star and executive producer, Bridget Everett, who portrays Sam Miller, a 40-something who returns to her conservative hometown of Manhattan, Kansas, to care for her dying sister. At a dead-end job, Sam befriends a former high school classmate she can barely remember— Joel — and the duo navigate aging parents and midlife breakups, with Joel encouraging a closed-off Sam to open up to the possibility…