You may find this internet feeling hard to believe, but this time last year Sarah Cooper was a 43-year-old couple with a handful of fans, happy to book a pizzeria … and almost ready to wave the white flag.
“Had you given up on the idea that you could break through?” asked correspondent Jim Axelrod.
“I had,” he said.
Then, the president launched her professional career (unintentionally, of course):
Suddenly, Cooper, who synchronized his lips with Donald Trump, removed everything but his words, was the hottest.
“What my videos did was take out all of that and say,‘ Listen to what he says. Listen to what it is no saying “because he really doesn’t say anything,” Cooper said.
Born in Jamaica and raised in Maryland, Cooper always had the entertainment bug. But at twenty he chose safety over sleep (working for Yahoo and Google) and doing comedy next door.
Still, technology gave him what he needed: material.
“I noticed in the meetings that there was a lot of imitation,” he said. “You saw someone get up and walk around the room, so maybe at the next meeting, he would get up and walk around the room “.
“Someone slapped his hand on a desk, looking at everyone and saying,‘ Will it shrink? “Axelrod suggested.
“Right!” he laughed. “That’s very dramatic, but yes.”
So seeing President Trump at a new conference last April …
“So assuming we hit the body with a huge light, either ultraviolet or just very powerful, and I think you said it wasn’t checked, but you’ll try it. And then I said, assuming you brought the light to the ‘inside the body, which you can do through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you’ll try it too. Sounds interesting … “
Cooper said, “When he said, ‘Did you say we didn’t check?’ We’ll try, won’t we? “I saw the other person in the room going, What? What are you talking about?“
He knew he had found what he needed and who.
Axelrod asked, “Is there a relationship between these tech buddies you see dropping the right phrase and President Trump?”
“Oh God, yes. We see the dress and we see the seal and we see people nodding our heads thinking, ‘Oh, it must make sense. must would it make sense, because why did all these people listen, laugh, applaud, and agree with him? “”
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He made his “How to Medical” video in two hours, working as basic as he goes, filming with his smartphone. Sarah Cooper, after 20 years of trying, was an overnight success. “And the next morning I had a million views or something,” he said.
The next thing she knew, Jerry Seinfeld retweeted it; Cher called her worthy of the Oscar; and Kamala Harris wanted to talk to her.
But when Mr. Trump leaves office, don’t think Sarah Cooper is the least contentious. Axelrod asked, “Do you want to see him stay with him for a while, just because he’s good for business?”
“No, no,” she replied. “I think I found a way to treat it that was different and interesting. But I think we’re done. We won’t see any more. And I think I have to use it as a propellant, but I also have to get away with it. , somehow.For example, I don’t want to be known as “The Lip Sync Girl”.
As good as they were old-school presidential impersonators Vaughn Meader i Small rich, Sarah Cooper is the next generation.
“You’re not rich enough. You’re not Vaughn Meader …” Axelrod said.
“Who are these people?” she asked.
“You make me feel 1000 years old!”
Cooper laughed, “I’m sorry!”
Because it now inaugurates the next stage of his career. admits some anxiety: “And if it were that, you know what I mean? What if it was my 15 minutes? What if I could never do anything as amazing as this again?”
But a recent Netflix special, featuring guests like Helen Mirren, and a series in development with CBS, means Cooper is in a very different place this January than last.
Axelrod asked, “If we’re sitting on this bench in five years, what do you think we’re going to be talking about?”
“I’d like to do the next‘ Seinfeld, ’” he replied. “I’d like to do the next ‘Office.’ I’d love to do a program that I have a lot in my voice.”
His voice … no his. Axelrod asked, “You feel like you have to take off your mask.” Here’s who I am? “
“I definitely wanted to,” Cooper said. “I’d like to get to a point where I really feel really like myself.”
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Story produced by Gabriel Falcon. Editor: Lauren Barnello.