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Hot Takes & Deep Dives

The L Word Deep Dive (w/ Damian Bellino & Anne Rodeman)

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

Tv & Film

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Jess is joined by comedians, L Word historians and co-hosts of "You Might Know Her From," Damian Bellino and Anne Rodeman, for The L Word deep dive of our dreams. We share our L Word origin stories, review the reboot (Gen Q), discuss their interviews w/ Guinevere Turner & Laurel Holloman, our obsession with Sepideh Moafi (Gigi), name our top 5 lesbians, discuss Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey's podcast, Queer as Folk and a lot more. We also go deep on The Chart that Damian and Anne created for Slate.com, highlighting the real-life web of Hollywood dyke drama they have substantiated. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives. This is Jess and I am thrilled to be here with Damian

0:20.0

Bellino and Ann Roadman. Now, you might know them from their podcast. You might know her from

0:27.4

where the entire conceit of the podcast is you interview character actresses. Totally.

0:33.6

That's it. Thank you for that lovely lead and really nice wink there. Yeah, that's what we

0:37.9

did. We shoot the shoot with each other and then we try to interview like an under-appreciated

0:41.9

actressy episode. Were you doing that podcast when we recorded last? I think so because you were like,

0:48.0

how did you, because I had interviewed, we had interviewed Cepi Muafi and then you were like,

0:53.7

also, can we talk about Gwyn of your turner and I was like, yes, and then I was like, I can't

0:57.2

and you were like, this is really deep. And then we went on a long conversation about Gwyn

1:01.8

of the year. So, literally the episode that just came out is with Laurel Holloman. Could not be

1:08.0

more relevant because welcome to the L Word Deep Dive podcast. I absolutely love the interview

1:14.8

with Laurel. I actually interviewed her a decade ago. What? A decade ago, because I was a writer for

1:19.7

Auto Struggle. Oh my god. I must have known this. I must have known this. Okay, wow. So, I interviewed

1:26.0

like Jennifer Beale's, like, those were the only two I think from the L Word. Me? Oh, you know,

1:30.4

who I interviewed? Oh, this is. She needed a govincar. No. I love Poppy. This is low-key iconic.

1:38.4

I interviewed Camilla Gray. Wait, as I was interviewing her, the news was breaking that her

1:46.6

and Lisa got kicked off the plane and that they were in a relationship. I end the interview

1:51.8

and it's all over the news. So, like, I missed this. I could like, broken the story or got in the

1:57.0

first quote and like, the universe didn't align. I'm so sorry. It was literally that day.

2:02.4

Oh, that's South West flight. They were like kissing. They got kicked off. It was like a morality

2:07.0

clause. I had no idea they were together. I saw them, I saw them like at the Bowery Ballroom in

2:13.1

Ah-ha-ha. I was like, I remember that got into bands based on like lesbian actresses that were in

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