“You know how there’s the friend a lot to be around, and not necessarily welcome? But people appreciate it. “I think Mary CC'd herself on this email and got involved, and she’s very intertwined in the happenings of what’s going on,” Sherry laughed. Bookish, preachy Bennet sister Mary ( Sherry Cola), for instance, is easy to picture as an outspoken lesbian activist caught up in the politics of marriage equality. “I love gay bars in smaller cities or small towns because I actually find them more welcoming sometimes than you do in New York City gay bars.”īeyond the obvious Pride and prejudice of it all, the themes of Austen’s work intersect with modern gay culture in ways that can be both thoughtful and funny. The queer pockets are more niche in those cities,” he said, pointing out the parallels between London society and the Bennets’ country village in the novel. “There is such a difference between New York and L.A. Setting this story in Boston, with the gay hubs of New York and Provincetown nearby, was a careful choice on Grady’s part. “It’s that time in your early 30s when some of your friends are getting married and some of your friends are having kids, and the single person whose chosen family is everything, it’s his whole world.”
“In the beginning, is so focused on his chosen family and keeping them all together, and they’re all evolving and growing up,” Lee said. Hodges passing and the unexpected arrival of gay celebrity Carlos Bingley (Muñoz) draws them to a local nightclub, where Bennet meets Bingley’s snobbish friend Darcy Williams (Peet), a newly out NFL star. B’s house after her wife’s funeral but the news of Obergefell v. The first episode sees Bennet trying to gather everyone at Mrs. In this modern retelling, “the Bennet sisters” are a circle of best friends in Boston’s LGBTQ+ community, with Blake Lee’s Bennet in the central “Lizzy” role and Rosie O’Donnell’s lovably neurotic Mrs. It’s people going to parties and essentially hooking up with each other, in the Regency era. I think everyone’s so struck by how much fun it is. “When you first encounter Austen, you expect it to be dusty and you expect it to be boring. It’s always been easy for him to relate to Austen’s novels, he said. “I remember joking on that day, ‘Oh, we can do Pride & Prejudice now because of the marriage backdrop!’”
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“The idea for the series came the day marriage equality passed,” Grady told The Advocate. The first two episodes are now available on Spotify, and the series will be presented at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival with a panel featuring the cast and creators on June 13. Executive produced by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Justin Mikita, and Gimlet's head of scripted Mimi O’Donnell, the 10-episode series was written and directed by Zackary Grady and features a standout cast including Ferguson, Blake Lee, Rosie O'Donnell, Ronald Peet, Vella Lovell, Javier Muñoz, Sherry Cola, and more. That’s just what we’re getting with Gay Pride & Prejudice, a new Spotify Original scripted podcast.
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With the success of related shows like Bridgerton and the rise of gay romantic comedies, it feels like the right moment for Pride & Prejudice, the grandmother of all rom-coms, to get a fresh update for LGBTQ+ audiences. There’s a long tradition - “a truth universally acknowledged,” you might say - that the world of Jane Austen will be reimagined as a trendy new film or series every few years or so.