Abbi Jacobson is making A League of Their Own — her own. The Broad City alum is accomplishing what she set out to do by exploring topics of sexuality and racism in her new Prime Video adaptation of the 1992 film of the same name.‘A League of Their Own’: Everything to KnowJacobson, 38, plays Carson Shaw in the sports drama, a married woman who joins the league while her husband (Patrick J.
Adams) is serving in World War II. The series focuses on the history of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which led to the queer story arc between Carson and Greta Gill, played by Jacobson’s real-life best friend, D’Arcy Carden.“I think a lot of queer people, obviously not speaking for everyone, a lot of queer people have had an experience of their first queer experience being [a] very important and pivotal moment in their lives and a very important person that sort of helps you know yourself in that way or pulls you into that world,” Jacobson exclusively tells Us Weekly. “Greta’s character is really guarded and has a lot of boundaries up and is going to shed layers over the course of the season.
And in the beginning of the pilot, there’s a line that’s so harsh and where she says, ‘I thought so’ after the kiss at the end of the pilot.
And that felt so like, it makes me angry even to think about it because that’s such a, ‘What’s happening?’ [moment]. And then you see why she does it.
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