With WorkInProgress, star Abby McEnany wants to show 'what queer life is.' Watch the full InStudioTHR interview:
"We really wanted to show queer life and the queer life that I see and that Lilly sees in our communities," McEnany told In Studio.Work in Progress
pilot at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival before it was scooped up by television writer and director Lilly Wachowski, along with co-showrunner Tim Mason, and made its debut on Showtime earlier this month. "I'm so grateful, I'm terrified, I'm excited. It's amazing. I still don’t believe it's happening because I've never worked on a professional thing like TV before and I just look around and I’m really grateful. I legit can't believe it," McEnany toldThe half-hour semi-autobiographical comedy follows a 45-year-old "self-identified fat, queer dyke," whose misfortune and despair lead her to a transformative relationship.
"With a lot of shows it's like, oh it's a queer character, but we don't see a lot of queer or trans or gender nonconforming folks as your Lyft driver, or your barista, your bartender, your waiter, you know in the background. It's very important that people are set and what people see with queer folks and trans folks and gender nonconforming folks because that's what our life is. It's not just me, Theo and Celeste who play queers. It's everybody.
She continued: "I was at brunch with a friend of mine and she was like, 'Are you ready for people to say you got stuff wrong?' I'm like, 'Yeah. I'm sure we did.' There's no way you're going to please everybody and I'm telling a story from my point of view, and I'm just trying to be as genuine and real as possible."
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