Pop Culture Witches (SDCC 2018)
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
A panel from SDCC 2018 about power, gender politics, and the representation of witches in popular culture.
Panelists: Sabrina the Teenage Witch showrunner, Nell Scovell; author of Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi; co-showrunner of the CWs Charmed reboot, Jessica OToole; Ruth Connell, who plays Rowena on Supernatural; and Juliana Crouch, a practicing witch. Moderated by Ben Blacker.
Recorded July 20, 2018 at San Diego Comic-Con International
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| 0:00.0 | Forever! |
| 0:01.0 | Dog! |
| 0:02.0 | Hi guys, we have a really special episode today that was so much fun and so interesting to record back at San Diego Comic-Con this past year. |
| 0:14.0 | First of all, sorry about the audio quality. |
| 0:17.0 | I'll say this, we had some issues. |
| 0:20.0 | The first 15 minutes or so were just recorded on my |
| 0:24.5 | phone, so there's a lot of echo. And then after the first 15 minutes, we actually did get a |
| 0:31.6 | soundboard recording, so it does clear up considerably. But you should be able to enjoy all of it. |
| 0:37.3 | It's, as I said, a special episode |
| 0:39.7 | all about pop culture witches featuring some great pop culture witches portrayers and writers, |
| 0:48.6 | as well as an actual practicing witch named Juliana Crouch, who was unbelievable, and this was her first |
| 0:56.1 | panel ever. And she spoke so eloquently and so delightfully about being a witch and what |
| 1:04.5 | that means. Additionally, on this panel, we have Nell Scoville, our old pal, who is the creator of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. |
| 1:12.3 | She also wrote for two seasons on the original Charmed. We have the co-show runner of the Charmed |
| 1:18.9 | reboot, Jessica O'Toole. That show is premiering this fall on CW. We were also joined by the |
| 1:26.4 | phenomenal author, Tommy Adiemi, who has written a novel called Children of Blood and Bone, which she describes as African The Last Airbender or Black Panther with Magic. |
| 1:38.5 | It is, since meeting Tommy, I've gotten to read the novel. |
| 1:42.4 | She is a phenomenal writer and just a lovely and such a |
| 1:47.3 | smart person. So she has a lot of great stuff to share on this. And then finally, Ruth Connell, |
| 1:53.4 | the actor who plays Rowena on Supernatural. She's been in something like the past 10 years of |
| 1:58.8 | supernatural appearing in episodes almost every season. |
| 2:03.4 | And she has a great perspective on playing a witch and what it means to be a witch. |
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