Wendi McLendon-Covey on Bev Goldberg Meeting an Empty Nest | NextTribe

February 14, 2019 by Michele "Wojo" Wojciechowski · Arts & Culture

Wendi McLendon-Covey on Bev Goldberg As She Faces an Empty Nest

Wendi McLendon-Covey has learned some important life lessons from playing her role on "The Goldbergs." Here, she tells us why Betty White is her role model and shares the secret to her great marriage (it's got nothing to do with sex).

Raise your hand if you love The Goldbergs! And obviously, like us, you are enamored with the sitcom because of Bev Goldberg and Wendi McLendon-Covey, the actress who portrays her. McLendon-Covey seems like she was born to play Bev, and with every bedazzled sweater and slow blink we become a little more obsessed.

But even though it's hard to tell where McLendon-Covey ends and Bev starts, the actress admits that when she first began playing the F-bomb dropping, children-loving, total 1980’s badass "smother," she was a little freaked out.

No wonder. On the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs, not only is McLendon-Covey playing a great character, but she’s also playing a real woman who is still very much alive and can watch the show each week. Oh, that woman also happens to be the Mom of the show’s creator, Adam F. Goldberg.

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