30 - L Word Chat With Rachel Shelley AKA Helena Peabody
Lesbian Supper Club
Lesbian Supper Club
4.7 • 557 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we had the absolute honour of sitting down with the incredible Rachel Shelley, actress, come podcaster/radio expert come gay awakening for many of us.
We talk about the past of the L Word and why it was so important to us growing up and what this looked like behind the scenes.
Make sure to tune into PodDiva to hear more of Rachel in all her glory.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. It's Freya here. We got a little bit taken back by this guest and therefore completely forgot to even introduce her. So welcome to |
| 0:22.7 | episode 30 of the Lesbian Supper Club with the incredible Rachel Shelley, aka Helena Peabody. |
| 0:29.5 | We are so excited to have you here today. I mean, I think the Elwood comes up in conversation, |
| 0:35.9 | not just on this podcast, most episodes one way or another, but just I think the Elwood comes up in conversation, not just on this podcast, most episodes one way or another, |
| 0:40.5 | but just I think in queer culture, friendship groups, all the time, like it's such a reigning |
| 0:48.0 | dominance of queer culture, TV show, iconic kind of status that having you on to kind of really give that insight, |
| 0:56.2 | I think everyone is very excited. I mean, we put a little teaser out on the podcast the other day. |
| 1:01.9 | And I think it was one of the highest views that we've had actually of voting. |
| 1:06.2 | So the demand is very much there. |
| 1:09.9 | Got nothing to say. So if I've been shaking doing the New York series is true. We'll take those jeans straight back up. No, not the jeans. Yeah, we've actually just bribed Rachel today with some Levi's, because otherwise she was like, no. If we give you three pairs of Levi's, will you do it? |
| 1:27.6 | It's amazing. |
| 1:28.0 | I just showed up and they said, well, of course. |
| 1:31.6 | Who doesn't? |
| 1:32.4 | No, it's amazing the scope of the L word. |
| 1:36.2 | And it still shocks me sometimes that, you know, |
| 1:40.2 | it was a long time ago that we filmed that. |
| 1:42.7 | I know that there's been the other reiterations of it that have come out. |
| 1:47.6 | But the legacy of it continues. |
| 1:50.0 | And it is. |
| 1:50.9 | It's quite, you know, I sometimes see a little clip or, you know, people send me pictures or gifts from that time. |
| 1:59.2 | And it shocks me because it's still so present in people's, you know, |
| 2:05.2 | chats and vocabulary and online. |
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