No Explanation Needed for the Hilarious Murray Hill
Somebody Somewhere. And last week he emerged again as a costar in Amy Schumer’s new Hulu sitcom Life & Beth.When I caught up with Hill recently, I congratulated him on his success and asked him how life was treating him now. “Thank you so much, but I think I’m the longest overnight success story in Hollywood history,” he shot back. “I’m in three TV shows right now, and it’s been a long time getting to this point.”The trans star noted that in addition to the Hulu and HBO shows, he was lucky enough to shoot an episode for producers Paul Feig and Jenny Bicks’s new mockumentary show, Welcome to Flatch, on Fox. “My first network show, and after over 20 years in the business, it really did take a long time to get to this point, and I’m enjoying every moment.”Hill’s journey to stardom and his personal journey to the present-day Murray Hill were the result of some luck and some bold decisions on his part, despite many obstacles about how he and others viewed him.“My personal story is a very long one, but I won’t bore you with all the details,” he recalled. “Suffice to say that when I was growing up there really weren’t any queer, gay, and trans people that I could look up to, and there was no internet to try and search for those people.
So I felt pretty lonely.”“At that time, I was what you called a ‘tom boy,’ and I thought I was a boy pretty much the whole time I was growing up.
There wasn’t acceptance for the way I felt, and there was religion that condemned you if you felt different. There were a lot of problems growing up that interfered with being my true self.”It wasn’t until Hill moved to Boston in the early 1990s that he encountered queer life.
