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Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Culture Catch-Up: Jill Zarin, Twinless, Pillion & Heated Rivalry vs. Queer as Folk

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

Tv & Film

4.5774 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Jess is joined by DAMIAN BELLINO & ANNE RODEMAN (co-hosts of "You Might Know Her From") for a wintertime culture catch-up! Topics — Jill Zarin fired (again), Sandra Bernhard cast in The White Lotus S4, The L Word corner, and why is Heated Rivalry accepted by gay men while Queer as Folk was not? Plus — we review the films Twinless, Pillion & Plainclothes.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to hot takes and deep dives and I am here with my dear friends, Damien Bolino and Rodeman.

0:21.2

You might know them from one of my favorite.

0:25.0

Here's the thing.

0:25.9

I hate when actors and actresses are interviewed on probably any other talk show,

0:31.8

podcast media platform except for your guy show.

0:35.6

Oh.

0:36.1

That's high praise, Jess, because I feel like you're like one of the best interviewers doing the gig. So I feel like we're in good company with you. But here's the thing about actors slash actresses. Well, we'll just call them actors. Yeah. How do you like to say it? We say actors, I think, right? I feel like actress. Yeah, but I feel like actress was, it's not a pejorative. I just felt like it was like, well, they're just also actors. So let's call them women actors. But, you know, if somebody prefers actress, sometimes it's a shorthand. I'm not offended by it. Yeah. Here's the thing. I don't find the art of acting. This is, this is an unpopular opinion. I don't find the, especially we're about to do a bunch of movie reviews. I don't find the quote unquote art of acting to be interesting. I find it to be really unent, like I don't care. I literally don't care. So I don't. When someone's bad, do you care? Like, when someone's

1:27.7

actively bad in a film, are you like, they were terrible? Or are you like, I don't care?

1:30.9

No, I love, like, judging. No, I'm free to... You judge the performance, but you don't care about the craft. Correct. And actors, like, talking about their process. No, I would never, like, be interested in talk like for example

1:41.6

Jennifer Beals is sitting here

1:43.9

maybe that's like one exception

1:45.5

okay let me not Jennifer Bills

1:46.9

you're going to let her talk about whatever she wants interested in talk like for example Jennifer Beals is sitting here maybe that's like one exception

1:45.5

okay let me not you're gonna let her talk about whatever she wants oh terrible interview never

1:50.2

I mean actually I did interview her you for a straddle that's right that's right God bless

1:56.3

we've been angling for a while but we haven't gotten there for Jennifer Beals well she was promoting

2:00.6

her book recently yeah we thought maybe we're going to manifest it. Can I tell you? You know, I was going to save this for the end. Jennifer Beals is getting on my last fucking nerve. Oh my God. Here's why. Did you see the photo? Did you see the photo that she posted on Instagram during the whole heated rivalry craze?

2:18.7

Oh my God.

2:19.2

Somebody about the cottage.

2:20.4

The photo of her in the rink in full hockey gear captioned, I'm coming to the cottage.

2:27.3

It's fucking queer.

2:28.6

Like, can you not like piss on every single gay thing?

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