DETROIT — Sam Richardson has been climbing Hollywood's ladder for 10 years, but he knew he'd reached a new career plateau when people started dressing up as his characters for Halloween.
"I've had people dress up as Richard Splett before," says Richardson, on a Zoom call from Los Angeles earlier this week, referring to his character from HBO's "Veep."
More recently, he's had people sending him pictures of themselves dressed up as his characters from the sketch comedy series "I Think You Should Leave," whether it be sparkly gold jackets from the "Little Buff Boys" sketch or sparkly blue jackets from "Baby of the Year." "That's always an iconic level, a stratosphere of being a professional, when somebody's like, 'I love you so much I want to be you for Halloween,'" he says.
