It may be hard to believe, the internet sensation she has, but this time last year, Sarah Cooper was a 43-year-old fighter with a handful of followers, happy to be reserved. in a pizzeria … the white flag flies.
“Did you give up on the idea that you could get over it?” asked correspondent Jim Axelrod.
“I kind of had,” she said.
Then the president threw his career into a lifeline (unintentionally, of course):
Suddenly, Cooper, who synchronized Donald Trump’s lips – removed everything but his words – was the hottest thing that ever happened.
“What my videos did was take all this and say, ‘Listen to what he’s saying. Listen to what it is not saying “because he really doesn’t say anything,” Cooper said.
Born in Jamaica and raised in Maryland, Cooper has always had the mistake of entertaining. But at the age of twenty, he chose security instead of the dream – working for Yahoo and Google – and doing comedy on the sidelines.
However, technology provided him with exactly what he needed: material.
“I noticed at meetings, a lot of imitations were happening,” she said. “You saw someone get up and walk around the room, so maybe at the next meeting, would you do get up and walk around the room. “
“Someone slapping his hand on a desk, looking at everyone and saying, ‘Will he go upstairs? ”Axelrod suggested.
“Right!” she laughed. “It’s very dramatic, but yes.”
So, watching President Trump at a new conference in April last year …
“So, assuming I hit the body with extraordinary light – whether it’s ultraviolet or just very strong – and I think you said it wasn’t checked, but you’ll test that. And then I said, assuming you brought the light inside your body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you would test that as well. Sounds interesting … “
Cooper said, “When was it like, ‘You said I didn’t check that?’ We’ll try, won’t we? “I saw the other person in the room walking, What the? What are you talking about?“
He knew he had found exactly what he needed and who.
Axelrod asked, “Is there a relationship between these tech brothers you see giving up the right phrase and President Trump?”
“Oh, my God, yes. We see the suit and we see the seal and we see people nodding their heads and thinking, ‘Oh, he must make sense. He must to make sense, because why would all these people listen and laugh, clap their hands and agree with him? ‘”
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She made her “How to Medical” video in two hours, working just as simple, filming with her smartphone. Sarah Cooper, after 20 years of trying, was successful overnight. “And the next morning it had a million views or something,” she said.
The next thing she knew, Jerry Seinfeld retweeted her; Cher called her Oscar-worthy; and Kamala Harris wanted to talk to her.
But as Mr. Trump leaves office, don’t think that Sarah Cooper is the least contentious for a moment. Axelrod asked, “Do you want to see him sitting around just because he’s good for business?”
“No, no,” she replied. “I think I found a different and interesting way to twist it. But I think I’m done. We won’t see it again. And I feel like I have to use it as a propellant, but I also don’t want to be known as” The girl who synchronizes with her lips. ”
As good as the old-school presidential imitators were Vaughn Meader and Rich Little, Sarah Cooper is the 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!”
As he now inaugurates the next stage of his career. recognizes a certain anxiety: “What if that were, you know what I mean? What if that were my 15 minutes? Like, if I could never do something like that again incredible like that? “
But a recent Netflix special, with guests like Helen Mirren, and a series being developed with CBS, means Cooper is in a very different place in January than last year.
Axelrod asked, “If we sit on this bench in five years, what do you think we’re going to talk about?”
“I’d like to do the next ‘Seinfeld,'” she replied. “I would like to do the next ‘office’. I would love to do a show that is very much in my voice. “
Her voice … no his. Axelrod asked, “Do you feel the need to take off your mask, ‘Here I am’?
“I definitely wanted to,” Cooper said. “I would like to get to that moment where I really feel like myself.”
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Story produced by Gabriel Falcon. Editor: Lauren Barnello.