It may be hard to believe, an internet feeling she is, but Sarah Cooper was a struggling 43-year-old rebel last year with a handful of followers, happy to be booked into a pizza place … and almost ready to wave the white flag.
“Did you give up at all on the idea that you could break through?” asks correspondent Jim Axelrod.
“I had quite a bit,” she said.
Then the president threw a lifeline (of course unintentionally) on her career:
Suddenly, Cooper was lip-sync the Donald Trump, who stripped everything but his words.
“What my videos did was take it all away and say, ‘Listen to what he says. Listen to what he is. not says, because he’s not really saying anything, ‘Cooper said.
Cooper was born in Jamaica and grew up in Maryland and has always had the entertainment bug. But in her twenties, she chooses security over the dream – working for Yahoo and Google – and doing comedy on the side.
Yet technology has given her exactly what she needs: materials.
“I noticed at meetings that there was a lot of imitation going on,” she said. ‘You saw someone get up and fit in the room, so maybe in the next meeting, you would get up and pass around the room. ‘
“Someone who puts his hand on a desk looks at everyone and says, ‘Will it enlarge? ‘, Suggested Axelrod.
“Right!” lag sy. “It’s very dramatic, but yes.”
So, look at President Trump in a new conference in April …
“Suppose we hit the body with a huge hit – whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light – and I think you said it was not checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said , suppose you have brought the light inside the body, which you can do through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you were going to test it too. It sounds interesting. … “
Cooper said, ‘Then he just like,’ You said we did not check it? ‘ We’re going to try it, right? ‘I saw the other person in the room, What? What are you talking about?“
She knew she had found exactly what she needed, and who.
Axelrod asked, “Is there a connection between these tech brothers you see that drops the right phrase and President Trump?”
“Oh God, yes. We see the suit and we see the seal and we see people nodding that we think, ‘Oh, he must make sense. He must makes sense, because why would all these people listen and laugh and clap and agree? ”
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She did her video ‘How to Medical’ in two hours and worked as basic as it gets and filmed with her smartphone. Sarah Cooper was an overnight success after 20 years of trying. “And the next morning it was seen a million times,” she said.
The next thing she knows, Jerry Seinfeld, tweeted her again; Cher calls her Oscar-worthy; and Kamala Harris wanted to talk to her.
But if Mr. Trump leaves office, do not think Sarah Cooper has the least conflict. Axelrod asked, “Does he want to see how he stays a little bit, just because he’s good for business?”
“No, no,” she replied. “I think I found a way to lamp him that was different and interesting. But I think we’re done. We’re not going to see anymore. And I feel I should use it as a propellant, but I should too. somehow escape it. Like, I do not want to be known as ‘The Lip-Synching Girl’. ”
Just as good as old-school presidential imitators were, like Vaughn Meader and Rich Little, Sarah Cooper is Next Generation.
“You’re not rich little. You’re not Vaughn Meader …” Axelrod said.
“Who are these people?” she asked.
“You make me feel 1,000 years old!”
Cooper laughed, “I’m sorry!”
While now inaugurating the next phase of her career. she does admit to some anxiety: “What if it was, do you know what I mean? What if it was my 15 minutes? Like what, if I would never be able to do so amazing again?”
But a recent Netflix show, featuring guests like Helen Mirren, and a series being developed with CBS, means Cooper is in a very different place this January than last year.
Axelrod asked, “If you sit on this bench in five years, how do you feel?”
“I would like to make the next ‘Seinfeld,'” she replies. “I would like to make the following ‘Office’.” I would like to do a show that is really very much in my voice. ‘
Her voice … not his. Axelrod asked, “Do you feel like you have to take off the mask? ‘Here is who I am’?”
“I definitely wanted to,” Cooper said. “I want to get to the point where I really feel just like myself.”
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Story produced by Gabriel Falcon. Editor: Lauren Barnello.