Episode 144: Jessica Ellis

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We talk to filmmaker Jessica Ellis, whose female-led coming of age movie "What Lies West" premieres May 11th! Jessica describes "continually interrogating" herself about her own bisexuality, and talks about queer people shading her on Twitter with comments like "ugh; STRAIGHT women!" when she is very much not in that category. Also, the difficulties of hitting on women ("I feel like I'd be hitting on someone in Swedish"), and the extreme importance of theatre make-out parties!

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0:00.0	Oh, hi, everybody.
0:07.8	Hey, y'all.
0:08.8	Welcome to Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole.
0:11.5	We are a weekly podcast where we have on queer folks from all walks of life.
0:15.4	They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.
0:20.1	Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:22.7	We are here today with filmmaker Jessica Ellis.
0:26.4	Hello, Jessica.
0:27.6	Hi.
0:29.2	This is me and Nicole's both of our first time Zoom meeting, Jessica,
0:34.1	but I have been an avid Twitter follower for many, many years. And we got put in touch
0:40.3	via Twitter by a mutual friend, because Jessica has a film coming out very soon, coming out May
0:48.9	11th called What Lies West. So she's sort of doing the like the the talky-talky circuit about it.
0:57.2	And Jessica, you are one of those people where it's like, I'm not going to say I only follow
1:02.3	queer people on Twitter because that's not true, but I do follow a lot of them. So there are some
1:06.7	people who it's like, it's like a puzzle box. it's a mystery where you don't really know are they
1:13.0	queer you don't know and you sort of like maybe pick up on tidbits but i was very excited when uh
1:19.3	when this friend of ours was like oh you should have jess gone she's looking to do podcasts and
1:24.5	stuff right now and i was like like, aha, she is queer.
1:28.6	It was like, I got to, like, check a little box that I have passively, not actively,
1:34.4	but passively wondered about for all the time I followed you because I wonder that about
1:38.7	everybody because when you do a queer podcast, you just sort of are always wondering, wondering like who can I have on this queer
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