A League of Her Own by Karen Rock7/4/2023 “There are worse things” than being known as a beloved character, Carden acknowledges. Year after year on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Twitter floods with memes of the character explaining, “Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place, because of all the raping, slave trade and genocide.” That’s not an easy task when Janet still seems to follow her everywhere. But then you’re like, ‘Let me show you what else I can do.'” “In a way, it’s all you could ever ask for. “There’s something Mickey Mouse-ish about Janet. When ‘A League of Their Own’ came out, I didn’t even know there could be a sports movie about women,” she says. I was a sporty little kid and I really liked them. “In the ‘80s and ‘90s, there were all these baseball movies. While the new series broadens its scope, Carden, who’s 42, has nothing but fond memories of watching the “life-changing,” ‘brain-busting” original film. In 2022, getting eight hours instead of two hours, we were able to tell a bigger story. So let’s see what else is out there,” she continues. “They set out to tell a more inclusive story, because we’ve already seen the story from the straight white girl lens. This really opens the lens,” Carden says over brunch ahead of the series premiere. There’s a taste here and there - but, if anything, it’s one story, one character. “We really haven’t seen this time period through a queer lens.
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