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August 5, 2021 astatine 1:14 pm
(CBS Local)– “The L Word: Generation Q” returns to Showtime for play 2 connected Sunday, August 8 astatine 10pm EST/PST and that means that fans volition get to spot Katherine Moennig, Leisha Hailey and the remainder of the unit backmost unneurotic again. The archetypal bid “The L Word” made its debut successful 2004 and ran for six seasons connected Showtime and the caller iteration of the bid made its debut successful 2019, which was 10 years aft the last occurrence of the archetypal bid aired.
CBS Local’s DJ Sixsmith caught up with Moennig and Hailey to sermon what fans tin expect successful play two, the roads for their characters Shane and Alice, the longevity of this bid and wherefore it has impacted millions of radical astir the satellite successful the LGBTQ+ community.
“Specifically for my character, you’ll request immoderate patience, due to the fact that wherever she begins and wherever she ends are precise antithetic places,” said Moennig. “It takes a precise dilatory pain to get determination and I deliberation she is approaching things a spot slower and much deliberately than she usually does. She is trying to hole her past mistakes and she is not trying to repetition them, which was refreshing to do.”
“You are going to spot a batch of relationships make that you weren’t expecting,” said Hailey. “You are going to spot immoderate relationships extremity that you weren’t expecting. It has that rich, juicy soapy prime that we each emotion astir this show. Personally for my character, Alice writes a publication this play and it forces her to uncover immoderate things that were buried for a agelong clip and that she didn’t truly privation to woody with. She astir apt didn’t adjacent cognize that she wasn’t dealing with it and with penning this publication she starts to bash that.”
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Moennig and Hailey tin inactive retrieve what it was similar erstwhile “The L Word” archetypal came retired successful 2004. It was the archetypal of its benignant and paved the mode for a batch of antithetic bid that person travel retired successful the years since. Both of the actors are blown distant by however almighty the interaction of the bid has been for each of these years, whether they were connected the aerial oregon not.
“It’s chaotic to deliberation successful 2021 that this began successful 2002 and I ne'er would’ve guessed that I would’ve had this agelong trajectory with this 1 and wrong the bid itself,” said Moennig. ”
“The occupation of this amusement has changed truthful much,” said Hailey. “We broke down truthful galore barriers and we were the archetypal of its benignant arsenic acold arsenic representing our community. Gay characters were truthful uncommon successful tv backmost then, fto unsocial a amusement that was wholly focused connected a radical of queer women from Los Angeles. It was unheard of. Now, it’s astir each of the changes that person happened successful our assemblage and culturally successful those 10 years we were disconnected the air. Coming back, we wanted to marque definite we were representing everyone correctly. The subtleties of showing these characters surviving successful their regular lives… we find that to beryllium a governmental statement. You don’t ever person to measurement connected a soapbox to accidental it, you tin conscionable amusement people.”
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Catch up connected play 1 of “The L Word: Generation Q” close present connected the Showtime app.
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