Openly Gay Actrs Kathere Moennig Is Married, Meet Her Director Wife

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• OPENLY GAY ACTRS KATHERE MOENNIG IS MARRIED, MEET HER DIRECTOR WIFE, B, AGE, SALARY, NET WORTH
• KATHERE MOENNIG B, AGE, WIFE, GAY, LBIAN, L WORD, MARRIED, RAY DONOVAN, NET WORTH, MOVI AND NOW
• WHO IS KATHERE MOENNIG? IS SHE GAY/LBIAN, ENGAGED, OR MARRIED?
• KATHERE MOENNIG B, AGE, WIFE, NET WORTH, HEIGHT, GAY, L WORD, MOVI, TV SHOWS
• OPENLY GAY ACTRS KATHERE MOENNIG IS MARRIED, MEET HER DIRECTOR WIFE
• KATHERE MOENNIG AND LEISHA HAILEY REVEAL ALL ON ‘THE L WORD: GEN Q’ SEASON 3CLIFFHANGERA WEDDG PS SEASON 3 OF “THE L WORD: GENERATN Q.” OGS MOENNIG AND HAILEY TALK DIRECTG, QUEER REPRENTATN, AND WHY THEY, LIKE FANS, LOVE THE DRAMA’S MIX OF SOAP AND GR.SHANNON O’CONNORSOCIAL MEDIA EDORPUBLISHED JAN. 19, 2023 4:49AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY LUIS G. RENDON/THE DAILY BEAST/PARAMOUNT+HERE THEY ARE: SHANE MCCUTCHEON AND ALICE PIZECKI, RIGHT ONT OF THIS REPORTER—OR, OK, THEIR PORTRAYERS KATHERE MOENNIG AND LEISHA HAILEY—A FEW WEEKS AFTER THE CELEBRATED MIL EPISO OF THE L WORD: GENERATN Q DARED TO POS THE QUTN—OR TANTALIZG POSSIBILY—OF THE TWO BT IENDS GETTG TOGETHER AFTER SO MANY YEARS OF THEM ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY NOT. THE LOOKS ON THE CHARACTERS’ FAC THAT SCENE SAID ALL: NO WAY, THIS NNOT HAPPEN. OF ALL THE CRISS-CROSSG BED-HOPPG OF THE L WORD, SHANE AND ALICE’S IENDSHIP HAS STAYED PLATONIC AS (SO MANY) WOMEN HAVE E AND GONE.“WE WOULD NEVER LET THEM [MAKE SHANE AND ALICE A THG],” HAILEY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.“TO THE RPECT OF THE ORIGAL WRERS, THEY ALWAYS KNEW NOT TO GO THERE. AND JT RRIED FORWARD,” ADDS MOENNIG. “I FD THE IENDS-TO-LOVERS TROPE IS A B TIRED.”THE TWO BT IENDS AND -STARS ARE THEIR UAL BANTER-FILLED SELV ON ZOOM WH THE DAILY BEAST JT A WEEK BEFORE THE SEASON 3 FALE OF THE L WORD: GENERATN Q, WH THE DRAMA RAMPG UP AROUND BETTE AND TA’S WEDDG. (IT BUTS ACROSS STREAMG AND ON MAND TOMORROW, FRIDAY, AND AIRS SUNDAY ON SHOWTIME AT 10 P.M. ET/PT.) HOWEVER, BEFORE DIVG TO THE GAY WEDDG S THE MAKG, ALL THE MAJOR CHARACTERS RETURNG AND THAT UNEXPECTED AND FUN MIL EPISO MT BE ADDRSED. THE FANS MAND . BIS GIVG THE L WORD FANS AN ALMOST KISS BETWEEN SHANE AND ALICE, THE AFOREMENTNED MIL EPISO ALSO CLUD THE RETURN OF ER DANIELS AS LEGENDARY CHARACTER DANA, THE HOT TENNIS PRO WHO AFTER HER TRAGIC ATH SEASON 3 OF THE ORIGAL SHOW WAS LAST SEEN GHOSTLY OUTLE A WATERFALL.“WHO WOULD EVER THK OF A MIL EPISO WH THE L WORD,” SAID MOENNIG WH A LGH. BUT BOTH THE ST AND DANIELS JUMPED ON BOARD WH THE IA.“I LLED ER RIGHT AWAY AND WAS LIKE, ‘OK, THERE’S A CRAZY IA. THEY WANNA BRG YOU BACK, BUT ’S GONNA BE A MIL EPISO,’” HAILEY RELLS WH A LGH. “SHE WAS FULLY GAME, BEE WE LOVE TO WORK TOGETHER. SHE WAS LIKE, ‘AS LONG AS I’M WORKG WH YOU, WE’RE GONNA HAVE A GOOD TIME.’”AS MOENNIG AND HAILEY SCRIBE , WAS ED A GOOD TIME. THEY FILMED THE EPISO A WEEK AND MOENNIG, HAILEY AND FELLOW STMATE ROSANNY ZAYAS, WHO PLAYS SOPHIE, SPENT MUCH OF THEIR TIME REHEARSG. “I HAD BEEN WORKG SO MUCH I WASN’T ABLE TO GET TO HAVE REHEARSAL WH THE CHOREOGRAPHERS, SO LEISHA AND ROSANNY TOOK UPON THEMSELV TO TEACH ME ONE WEEKEND SO I ULD BE UGHT UP TO THE LEVEL THEY WERE AT,” SAID MOENNIG.BOTH MOENNIG AND HAILEY ALSO HAD TO TAKE A MOMENT TO PRAISE ROSANNY’S SUPERB SGG VOICE. “I WAS LIKE WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN HIDG THAT?” HAILEY SAID. LEISHA HAILEY DIRECTG THE SEASON 3 FALE.ISABELLA VOSMIKOVA/SHOWTIME DPE BEG QUE A BIG CHANGE OM ANYTHG THE SERI HAD DONE BEFORE, MOENNIG AND HAILEY HAD AN ABSOLUTE BLAST WH THE MIL EPISO. MOENNIG ONLY HAS ONE REGRET ABOUT THE EPISO AND THAT IS SHE WISHED SHE SANG. “I THK WOULD’VE LAND DIFFERENTLY HAD I DONE , BUT, OH WELL, TOO LATE,” SAID MOENNIG.DANIELS ISN’T THE ONLY CHARACTER WHO’S MA A RETURN THIS SEASON. FANS WERE ALSO SURPRISED TO SEE NOW-FIREFIGHTER TASHA (ROSE ROLLS), BACK AND IMMEDIATELY ARGUG WH EX ALICE UPON THE RCUE OF HER T MR. PIDDL JR. OM UP A TREE.“THE HARST PART OF THE ENTIRE NIGHT WAS THE FLARE,” MOENNIG RELLED. MOENNIG, WHO MA HER DIRECTORIAL BUT THE PENULTIMATE EPISO OF THE L WORD: GENERATN Q’S THIRD SEASON THAT AIRED ON JAN.15, WAS TERMED TO GET TASHA’S REVEAL RIGHT.TO GET THE SHOCK FOR ALICE AND THE DIENCE RIGHT ALL ME DOWN TO GETTG THE TIMG RIGHT WH A LIGHT FLARE—AND MOENNIG NAILED . THEN, THE MERA PANNED TO A VERY UNIMPRSED ALICE.“TASHA AND ALICE WERE ALWAYS ARGUG, SO JT TO HAVE THEIR VERY FIRST SCENE LIKE NO TIME HAS PASSED [WAS PERFECT],” SAID HAILEY. JACQUELE TOBONI AS FLEY, YELLOW, WH ROSANNY ZAYAS AS SOPHIE.NILE WILR/SHOWTIME THE RETURN OF TASHA, WHO ME TO THE SERI AS ALICE’S LOVE TERT SEASON FOUR AND STAYED UNTIL THE FALE OF THE ORIGAL, IS SOMETHG BOTH MOENNIG AND HAILEY WANTED FOR SOME TIME AND NOT JT BEE THEY WANTED TO RNE WH OLD STMAT—ALTHOUGH THAT IS A PL—BUT BEE AS FANS OF THE L WORD THEMSELV, THEY WANT TO SEE HER RETURN. “WE HAVEN'T SEEN TASHA SCE 2009. WASN'T EVERYONE A LTLE CUR WHAT HAPPENED TO TASHA AND ALICE? I WAS, AND TO SUDNLY SEE HER BACK, WHAT A SHOT THE ARM,” SAID MOENNIG.BIS BRGG DANA AND TASHA, THE L WORD: GENERATN Q ALSO BROUGHT BACK MAX SWEENEY (DANIEL SEA) THIS SEASON. MAX MA HIS BUT THE L WORD SEASON 3 AND THE OFTEN TRANSPHOBIC TREATMENT OF HIS CHARACTER THE SHOW HAS BEEN A SORE SPOT FOR FANS FOR MANY YEARS. IN HIS RETURN EPISO, THIS TREATMENT WAS BLATANTLY ADDRSED AN EXCHANGE BETWEEN HIM AND SHANE (MOENNIG), WHERE SHANE APOLOGIZED FOR THE IEND GROUP’S OLD BEHAVR. IT WAS A MOMENT FANS HAD LONG BEEN WAG FOR.“WE WERE JT ACKNOWLEDGG WH MAX [THAT] YEAH, TIME HAS CHANGED AND EVERYONE HAS GROWN UP SCE 2000 AND WHAT, EIGHT OR SEVEN OR WHATEVER THAT YEAR WAS. AND JT [WE WERE] BEG ACUNTABLE,” SAID MOENNIG. “NOT MAKG A MEAL OUT OF , BUT JT BEG ACUNTABLE.”“[TRANSPHOBIA] IS AN CREDIBLY DANGERO THG THAT'S HAPPENG AND ’S WHY SHOWS LIKE [THE L WORD: GENERATN Q] NEED TO EXIST BEE ALL HELPS THE CHANGE. REPRENTATN IS SO IMPORTANT AND TO DO PROPERLY IS SO IMPORTANT,” SAID HAILEY. “MY CHARACTER DIDN’T GET A CHANCE TO APOLOGIZE TO MAX AND I KNOW ALICE SAID SOME PRETTY ABHORRENT THGS BACK THEN.” “I THK ’S UP TO PEOPLE POWER TO MAKE THOSE BOLD CISNS AND KEEP SHOWS THAT HAVE MORE THAN TWO GAY CHARACTERS ALIVE”— LEISHA HAILEY REPRENTATN ON TELEVISN HAS BEEN A HOT-BUTTON ISSUE OF LATE, PECIALLY AFTER A STRG OF QUEER-LED AND PECIALLY FEMALE-CENTRIC TELEVISN SERI WERE NCELED.“SADLY, I THK WE’RE BACK TO WHERE WE WERE BEFORE,” HAILEY SAID. “MEDIA THKS ’S OK TO JT SERVE UP SOME GAY CMBS WH A UPLE OF GAY CHARACTERS OR TRANS CHARACTERS, OR MAYBE A STRAIGHT PERSON HAS A BISEXUAL EXPERIENCE [ A SHOW], AND I THK THEY THK WE’RE SUPPOSED TO BE SATISFIED WH THAT. AND QUE ANKLY, I DON'T THK ’S ENOUGH.”“NOR IS REFLECTIVE OF WHERE WE ARE 2023,” ADDS MOENNIG.“I THK ’S UP TO PEOPLE POWER TO MAKE THOSE BOLD CISNS AND KEEP SHOWS THAT HAVE MORE THAN TWO GAY CHARACTERS ALIVE,” HAILEY ADDS.THAT IS WHY SHOWS LIKE THE L WORD: GENERATN Q REMA SO IMPORTANT TO THE QUEER MUNY AS IS AN UNAPOLOGETIC LOOK TO THE LIV OF MANY QUEER CHARACTERS WHO AREN’T FED BY THEIR SEXUALY OR GENR INTY. AND THIS SEASON, THE MOST BELOVED UPLE WH THE SERI FALLY RNED. Y, OF URSE, THE RNN OF TA (LREL HOLLOMAN) AND BETTE (JENNIFER BEALS) EPISO TWO WAS A HUGE FAN MOMENT. AND JT WHEN DIENC WEREN’T SURE WHEN THEY’D SEE THE HAPPY UPLE AGA, THE TWO POP BACK UP THE PENULTIMATE EPISO OF THE SEASON AND DO SOMETHG WE ALL HOPED WOULD HAPPEN: GET ENGAGED. JENNIFER BEALS AS BETTE AND LREL HOLLOMAN AS TA.ISABELLA VOSMIKOVA/SHOWTIME. “MY OBJECTIVE WH THOSE TWO WAS THAT I DIDN'T WANT SCHMALTZY AND I KNOW ULD TEETER THAT TERRORY VERY EASILY,” SAID MOENNIG, WHO DIRECTED THE SIGNIFINT MOMENT. “SOMETIM SIMPLE IS THE ANSWER TO THGS LIKE THAT. I WAS HAPPY THAT I ULD BE THE DRIVER'S SEAT WH THAT.”IN THE END, THE PROPOSAL SCENE TURNED OUT JT LIKE MOENNIG, BEALS AND HOLLOMAN WANTED . IT WAS A VERY BETTE AND TA PROPOSAL. IT WASN’T OVERLY CHEY OR OVER THE TOP, WAS A SIMPLE CLARATN OF LOVE.WHILE MOENNIG GOT TO DIRECT THE EPISO OF TASHA’S RETURN AND BETTE AND TA’S ENGAGEMENT, HAILEY, HER DIRECTORIAL BUT, WAS TASKED WH DIRECTG TA AND BETTE’S WEDDG EPISO—THE SEASON 3 FALE. “THE BETTE AND TA WEDDG MEANS A LOT TO A LOT OF PEOPLE, SO THE PRSURE WAS ON THAT SENSE,” SAID HAILEY. “THERE WAS A LOT GOG ON ONE PLACE THAT HAD TO BE DONE A VERY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. IT WAS A CHALLENGE, BUT A FUN CHALLENGE.” KATHERE MOENNIG DIRECTG EPISO 9 OF SEASON 3.ISABELLA VOSMIKOVA/SHOWTIME WHEN MOENNIG AND HAILEY EXPRSED THEIR TERT DIRECTG BACK WHEN THE L WORD: GENERATN Q WAS JT BEGNG THEY HAD NO IA THAT THEY WOULD EVENTUALLY DIRECT TWO OF THE MOST PIVOTAL EPISOS OF THE SERI. “THEY JT SAID, ‘OK, YOU’RE DOG 9, YOU’RE DOG 10,’” ADDS HAILEY. “AND WE DIDN’T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE GONNA BE AT THE TIME.”MOENNIG AND HAILEY HAVE BEEN EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ON THE L WORD: GENERATN Q SCE BEGAN 2019 AND HAVE TAKEN ON QUE A ROLE BEHD THE SCEN, BUT DIRECTG WAS A NEW CHALLENGE FOR THEM BOTH AND ONE THAT SEEMED LIKE A NATURAL PROGRSN. “IT’S A VERY VULNERABLE POSN TO BE ON A SET BEE EVERYTHG HAS TO GO THROUGH YOU, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THERE IS A FORT KNOWG, ‘OH, I UNRSTAND THIS WORLD VERY WELL.’”— KATHERE MOENNIG “I THK THE ENVIRONMENT WAS PERFECT TO GET YOUR FEET WET THIS PARTMENT, BEE WE’VE BEEN ON THE SHOW NOW FOR HOW MANY YEARS—WE UNRSTAND THE WORLD THIS TAK PLACE AND WE KNOW THE CHARACTERS,” SAID MOENNIG. “IT’S A VERY VULNERABLE POSN TO BE ON A SET BEE EVERYTHG HAS TO GO THROUGH YOU, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THERE IS A FORT KNOWG, ‘OH, I UNRSTAND THIS WORLD VERY WELL.’”HAILEY AND MOENNIG BOTH SHADOWED DIRECTORS DURG SEASON TWO AND THREE AS THEY GEARED UP TO MAKE THEIR BUTS.“WORKG WH THE ACTORS WAS REALLY FUN AND TRYG TO BRG OUT THE BT EVERYONE'S PERFORMANCE IS A FUN CHALLENGE OR TO TRY TO TAKE THEM TO PLAC MAYBE THAT ARE OUTSI OF THEIR FORT ZON,” SAID HAILEY. “ARIENNE MANDI [WHO PLAYS DANI] GOT TO DO A LOT OF THAT, WHICH WAS REALLY FUN FOR HER AND ME.”THE FALE EPISO GIV FANS THE BETTE AND TA WEDDG EVERYONE HAS BEEN WAG FOR, BUT LIKE ALWAYS EXPECT A PLETHORA OF DRAMA—THE SOAPS OF THE SHOW THAT MOENNIG AND HAILEY HAVE ALWAYS ENJOYED. “YOU HAVE TO HAVE A REASON TO E BACK,” SAID HAILEY.“RIDICULO CIRCUMSTANC ARE FUN TO WATCH,” HAILEY SAID. “BUT ON THE FLIP SI, I THK ’S VERY IMPORTANT TO DIG MORE EPLY TO THE REAL STCTURE BEHD THE IENDSHIPS AND THE EMOTNAL QUALY OF THE RELATNSHIPS AND TO STAY LONGER AND TO GET TO KNOW THE PEOPLE BETTER AND TO GIVE FANS A CHANCE TO DIVE TO THE STORYL AND GET VTED.” THE L WORD: GENERATION QLEO SHENG AS MIH AND JILLIAN MERDO AS MARIBEL.NILE WILR/SHOWTIME “YOU N'T HAVE ONE WHOUT THE OTHER,” MOENNIG AGREED AND ADD THAT SHE ALWAYS LIKED HOW THE ORIGAL SERI YOU NOT ONLY SAW THE CHARACTER’S DATG DRAMA BUT THEIR WORK DRAMA, LIVG ARRANGEMENT DRAMA, ETC. “YOU STARTED TO GET A PRETTY CLEAR SPE OF WHO EVERYONE WAS, PECIALLY AS THE SEASON WENT ON,” SAID MOENNIG. “WHICH MA THE SHOW, I'M NOT SAYG WAS PERFECT, BUT ENRICHED THE DRAMA. SO YOU WERE LIKE, ‘OKAY, I N DIVE AND BELIEVE THIS OUTLANDISH CIRCUMSTANCE.’”ONE OF HAILEY AND MOENNIG’S FAVORE THGS ABOUT THE L WORD WAS HOW MUCH REALLY PICTED THE FOUND FAY ASPECT OF QUEER CULTURE. “THAT WAS THE GLUE OM DAY ONE,” SAID MOENNIG. “WE CHOSE EACH OTHER,” ADD HAILEY.CHOSEN FAY WAS HIGHLIGHTED A BIG WAY THIS SEASON OF THE L WORD: GENERATN Q WH CARRIE (ROSIE O’DONNELL) AND FLEY’S (JACQUELE TOBONI) STORYLE. “IN THIS SEASON, THAT'S MY FAVORE STORYLE,” SAID HAILEY. “THAT'S MY TAKEAWAY OM THE SEASON.”OF URSE NO NVERSATN ABOUT ROSIE O’DONNELL’S VOLVEMENT THE L WORD ULD GO WHOUT PRAISE FOR HER CREDIBLE PERFORMANCE. “SHE'S OUTSTANDG,” SAID MOENNIG. “SHE'S THE MVP OF THE SEASON.” “I DON’T MISS THE SONG. I DO MISS OUR OPENG CREDS, I THOUGHT THEY WERE ALWAYS FUN.”— LEISHA HAILEY THERE IS ONE THG THOUGH THAT HAILEY AND MOENNIG DO NOT MISS OM THE ORIGAL AND IS THE INIC THEME SONG. “I DON’T MISS THE SONG,” SAID HAILEY. “I DO MISS OUR OPENG CREDS, I THOUGHT THEY WERE ALWAYS FUN.” AND THEY WERE A PRODUCTN. “THEY ED TO HAVE TEAMS OF PEOPLE FLY UP TO VANUVER,” HAILEY SAID. “[THEY’D] MAKE A REALLY HIGH NCEPT LOOK AND SHOOT FOUR DAYS AND [THERE] WAS A STAGE WH ALL THE DIFFERENT STUM AND LIGHTG AND MERA TRICKS,” MOENNIG ADD.THE THEME SONG AND LONGER OPENG CREDS IS SOMETHG OF A LOST ART. EXCEPT FOR THE OCSNAL HBO SHOW OPENG, HAS SCE BEE A THG OF THE PAST TELEVISN. “THERE IS SOMETHG ABOUT A THEME SONG THAT LOCKS THE VIBE OF A SERI, FOR STANCE, SUCCSN. THE MOMENT YOU HEAR THAT STMENTAL, YOU THK, ‘OK, HERE WE GO. I'M THE WORLD OF SUCCSN’ AND GETS YOU. NOT THAT I'M AT ALL PARG THE THEME SONG TO THE ORIGAL OF THE L WORD TO SUCCSN,” MOENNIG SAYS WH A LGH. “I'M NOT AT ALL PUTTG THOSE TWO THE SAME TEGORY.”WHEN THE CREDS ROLL ON THE SEASON THREE FALE, TE L WORD FASHN, THERE ARE SOME JUICY CLIFFHANGERS AND UNANSWERED QUTNS. WILL THERE BE A FOURTH SEASON? WE ALL ARE WONRG THE SAME QUTN. “THAT IS ABOVE OUR PAY GRA,” QUIPS MOENNIG. (SHOWTIME WOULD NOT MENT TO THE DAILY BEAST ON WHETHER A FOURTH SEASON WAS NFIRMED.) AS FOR SHANE AND ALICE, HAILEY AND MOENNIG SAY THEY HAVE A WISHLIST OF SHENANIGANS THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE TWO IENDS BE UGHT UP (THEY CLE TO SAY WHAT PRECISELY), BUT MALY, AS HAILEY TELLS THE DAILY BEAST, “I THK WE’LL JT RRY OUR REAL IENDSHIP TO THE SUNSET.” WE SHALL BE WATCHG—AND CHEERG. SHANNON O’CONNOR
• HOW THE L WORD’S LEISHA HAILEY AND KATHERE MOENNIG BEME BT FRIENDS—ON SCREEN AND OFFREAL CHEMISTRYAS A NEW SEASON OF “THE L WORD: GENERATN Q” BEGS, LEISHA HAILEY (ALICE) AND KATHERE MOENNIG (SHANE) REVEAL THE SECRETS OF THEIR IENDSHIP, AND HOW REALY MIRRORS FICTN.SHANNON O’CONNORSOCIAL MEDIA EDORUPDATED AUG. 06, 2021 5:34AM EDT / PUBLISHED AUG. 06, 2021 4:06AM EDT SHOWTIMEIF THERE IS ONE THG FANS OF THE L WORD, BOTH THE ORIGAL AND THE “GENERATN Q” REBOOT, N AGREE ON, ’S THAT THE IENDSHIP BETWEEN SHANE MCCUTCHEON AND ALICE PIZECKI HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE BACKBONE OF THE SERI.WHETHER THEY ARE ROCKG CRAZY HAIRDOS (YOU KNOW THE ON) OR JT BANTERG, THERE IS NOT A TIME WHEN THE TWO ARE ON SCREEN THAT DON’T BRG A SE TO A FAN’S FACE. FOR A SHOW THAT HAS S FAIR SHARE OF DRAMA, THE IC RELIEF OF SHANE AND ALICE—UALLY OBSERVG A JUICY OR EXCCIATG MOMENT OF CHAOS THEIR OR THEIR IENDS’ LIV—HAS ALWAYS BEEN WELE. AND NEVER MORE SO THAN THE NEW SEASON, WHICH BEGS THIS SUNDAY NIGHT ON SHOWTIME. STAND BY FOR SLAPS, HEARTBREAK, GAMBLG, NONTATNS, BETTE (JENNIFER BEALS) AS EVER AMAZG ATS, AND ROMANTIC ENTANGLEMENTS THAT GET MORE PLEX AND GHT AS THE SEASON NTU. IF YOU LIKE YOUR L WORD SOAPY AND DRAMATIC, YOU WILL BE CLOVER. FANS ALSO LOOKG FORWARD TO SEEG SOME CLASSIC SHANE AND ALICE MOMENTS WILL NOT BE DISAPPOTED. THE LAST SCENE THE VERY FIRST EPISO OF THE NEW SEASON FEATUR A QUTSENTIAL SHANE/ALICE MOMENT—THAT, OF URSE, HAS AN EVEN MORE HILAR BEHD-THE-SCEN STORY. “LEISHA APPEARS TO BE WEEPG OUT OF JOY, BUT ACTUALLY WHAT’S HAPPENG IS THAT KATE AND STEPHANIE [ALLYNNE, WHO PLAYS NAT, ALICE’S PARTNER] MA HER LGH SO HARD THAT SHE’S ACTUALLY CRYG OM LGHG SO HARD,” “GENERATN Q” SHOWNNER MARJA-LEWIS RYAN TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “THAT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.”THE MOST TERTG PART ABOUT THE IENDSHIP BETWEEN SHANE AND ALICE ON SCREEN IS THAT MIRRORS THE IENDSHIP BETWEEN THE PEOPLE WHO PORTRAY THEM—KATHERE MOENNIG AND LEISHA HAILEY.THE TWO FIRST MET AT THE FAL WORK TT FOR THE ROLE OF SHANE. Y, ALICE ALMOST PLAYED SHANE. AND EVEN THOUGH WAS A VERY STRSFUL DAY 2002, MOENNIG AND HAILEY BOTH REMEMBER VIVIDLY.“I THOUGHT THAT KATE WAS SO OL. I BASILLY WAS GRABBG MY KEYS TO JT GET BACK TO MY R, BEE I KNEW THE OUTE OF THE SUATN,” HAILEY RELLED WH A LGH TO THE DAILY BEAST ON A ZOOM WH MOENNIG.“AND ON MY END, I WAS LIKE ‘OH, THAT’S THE GIRL OM THE YOGURT MERCIALS. THAT’S WHO’S GOG TO PLAY SHANE?’” MOENNIG QUIPPED.Y, HAILEY, WHO HAILS OM NEBRASKA, APPEARED SEVERAL YOPLA MERCIALS EARLY ON HER REER. OUTSI OF THE L WORD AND ACTG, SHE HAS ALSO HAD A SUCCSFUL MIC REER WH THE MURMURS AND THEN LATER WH UH HUH HER.EVENTUALLY, MOENNIG, A PHILALPHIA NATIVE, WAS ST AS RINT LOTHAR AND HEARTTHROB SHANE. BUT, BEFORE SHE WAS BREAKG HEARTS OVER ON SHOWTIME SHE MA HER BIG BREAK TO TV WH THE ROLE OF JAKE PRATT ON THE CW’S TEEN DRAMA YOUNG AMERINS.UPON FDG OUT SHE GOT THE ROLE, MOENNIG SAYS SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHO ANY OF THE OTHER ST MEMBERS WERE GOG TO BE OTHER THAN BEALS (BETTE) AND PAM GRIER (K), BUT SHE SECRETLY HOPED HAILEY WOULD STILL BE VOLVED. “A LOT OF LIVED TOGETHER OR WE’D LEAVE SET AND GO TO DNER RIGHT AWAY. THERE WAS SORT OF LIKE A NTUUM OF THE SHOW, NEVER REALLY STOPPED REAL LIFE.”— LEISHA HAILEY “IN THE BACK OF MY BRA I THOUGHT, ‘I WONR IF THE YOPLA GIRL IS GOG TO BE ON THE SHOW,’ BEE I LIKED HER,” MOENNIG RELLED. “I GET TO THE PRODUCTN OFFICE AND THE FIRST PERSON I SEE IS HER AND I HAD THIS SENSE OF QUIET RELIEF BEG LIKE, ‘Y, SHE IS A PART OF .’”AS FATE WOULD HAVE , HAILEY WAS ST AS BISEXUAL JOURNALIST ALICE. AND THAT, AS THEY SAY, WAS THE BEGNG OF A BETIFUL IENDSHIP—ONE THAT MANY VIEWERS GOT TO WATCH GROW ON SCREEN JT AS GREW OFF SCREEN.“WE BROUGHT SO MUCH OF WHAT WAS REALLY HAPPENG REAL LIFE ONTO THE SCREEN,” HAILEY SAID. “WE WERE ALL NSTANTLY HANGG OUT WH EACH OTHER OM THE SEND WE WRAPPED. A LOT OF LIVED TOGETHER OR WE’D LEAVE SET AND GO TO DNER RIGHT AWAY. THERE WAS SORT OF LIKE A NTUUM OF THE SHOW, NEVER REALLY STOPPED REAL LIFE.”MOENNIG ALSO NOTED THAT THE FIRST SEASON OF THE ORIGAL SERI PECIALLY, SHE AND HAILEY HAD A LOT OF EE TIME TO SPEND WH EACH OTHER WHILE OTHERS FILMED. “WHILE EVERYONE ELSE [WAS] ON SET WORKG, [LEISHA] AND I AND MAYBE ER (DANIELS) OR SOMEBODY, WE WOULD FD WEIRD ACTIVI TO KEEP OURSELV BY,” SHE SAID.THIS CLOSE IENDSHIP WAS SOMETHG THAT WRERS OF THE ORIGAL SHOW UGHT ONTO QUICKLY AS WELL. “I THK THEY STARTED TCHG WD OF WHAT WAS HAPPENG AND WRG TOWARDS ,” HAILEY SAID.AND, EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS A 10-YEAR GAP OM THE END OF THE ORIGAL TO RELEASE OF THE REBOOT, MOENNIG AND HAILEY’S IENDSHIP DID NOT WAIVER, WHICH AS MOENNIG SAYS IS “A REAL RARY” THE BS. “NORMALLY YOU MAKE SUCH TIGHT IENDSHIPS ON A PROJECT AND YOU THK, ‘OH, WELL, WHEN WE GET BACK TO REAL LIFE, THEY'LL RRY ON,’ AND A LOT OF TIM THEY DON'T,” MOENNIG SAID. “AND FOR WHATEVER REASON, THIS STUCK.” “THEIR CHEMISTRY IS UNNIABLE BEE ’S REAL.”— MARJA-LEWIS RYAN THIS BOND DIDN’T GO UNNOTICED BY RYAN.“YOU N TELL WHEN PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY BT IENDS,” RYAN TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “WHEN I FIRST MET THEM I DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEY WERE IENDS REAL LIFE AND THEY WERE TALKG ABOUT GOG TO HOME DEPOT AND BUILDG A FENCE. I WAS LIKE, ‘WHAT? IS THIS REAL OR IS THIS A SCRIPT?’”NOW, RYAN, WHO OFTEN WNS THEIR FAMO BANTER ON SET, HAS FOUND HERSELF TAILORG SCEN AROUND THEIR CLOSE IENDSHIP.“ANYTHG THEY SAY I PRETTY MUCH WRE DOWN,” RYAN SAID. “THERE’S ONE EPISO WHERE ALICE IS WEARG THIS RIDICULO SU AND I WAS LIKE, ‘SHOULDN’T SHANE BE MAKG FUN OF HER FOR THIS?’ AND KATE’S LIKE, ‘Y.’ THEIR CHEMISTRY IS UNNIABLE BEE ’S REAL.”ALTHOUGH THE SERI HAS A LOT OF CHARACTERS TO FOC ON, HAILEY AND MOENNIG ARE VERY TERTED EXPLORG MORE OF THE ALICE AND SHANE IENDSHIP. “I WOULD LIKE [THE CHARACTERS] TO GO TO A MIC FTIVAL, LIKE BURNG MAN OR COACHELLA, AND TAKE A BUNCH OF DGS OVER THE WEEKEND. I’D LIKE TO SEE THAT IENDSHIP THERE,” HAILEY SAYS.TO WHICH, MOENNIG WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGRE, “I’D LIKE TO SEE THE TWO ON ACID OR ECSTASY.” SHE ALSO SUGGTS A FEW SURVIVAL ADVENTUR FOR THE DUO. “WE SHOULD DO ‘NAKED AND AAID,’” SHE SAID WH A LGH.RYAN IS ALSO TERTED SHOWSG THE IENDSHIP MORE ON THE SERI. “I WOULD LOVE TO DO BOTTLE EPISOS WH VERY SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. I THK HAVG THEM WOULD BE FUN,” SHE SAID. “IF WE GET A SEASON THREE, I HOPE TO BE ABLE TO STICK THE LANDG A LTLE B MORE AND SPEND SOME MORE TIME WH DIVIDUALS AND SMALLER GROUPS.”THE IENDSHIP BETWEEN SHANE AND ALICE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HUGE PART OF THE SERI, SPE THE CHARACTER’S MANY DIFFERENC. WHILE SHANE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE HEARTBREAKER, ALICE HAS ALWAYS TRIED TO MATA STABLE RELATNSHIPS. BUT EACH HAS GONE THROUGH THEIR FAIR SHARE OF DRAMA, THE BIGGT OF ALL BEG DANA’S (ER DANIELS) ATH SEASON 3 OF THE ORIGAL SERI. ALSO, NEVER FET THAT ALICE IS THE CREATOR OF THE FAMO CHART THAT REALLY HAMMERED HOME THE POT THAT THE LBIAN ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL SPHERE IS A LOT MORE NNECTED THAN ONE MIGHT THK.IN “GENERATN Q,” FANS REALLY GET TO SEE HOW MUCH THE TWO CHARACTERS HAVE GROWN AND WHILE STILL RETAG THAT BT IENDSHIP. ALICE, WHO NOW HOSTS A QUEER TALK SHOW, HAS FOUND A (SOMEWHAT) STABLE RELATNSHIP WH NAT. SHANE, WHO NOW OWNS AND OPERAT THE LBIAN BAR DANA’S, IS STILL VERY MUCH UP TO HER HEARTBREAKER WAYS AFTER GOG THROUGH A DIVORCE THE LAST SEASON. “I THK THAT’S WHAT MAK THE IENDSHIP REALLY STRONG. IT’S A KD OF A GAY STEREOTYPE, RIGHT? LIKE YOU WD UP HOOKG UP WH YOUR IENDS, WHEREAS WE MANAGED TO AVOID THAT.”— KATHERE MOENNIG ONE THG BOTH MOENNIG AND HAILEY HAVE REALLY LIKED ABOUT THEIR ONSCREEN RELATNSHIP IS THAT THE WRERS NEVER TRIED TO GET THE TWO CHARACTERS TOGETHER. “NOBODY NEEDS TO SEE THAT,” HAILEY SAID.“I THK THAT’S WHAT MAK THE IENDSHIP REALLY STRONG,” SAID MOENNIG. “IT’S A KD OF A GAY STEREOTYPE, RIGHT? LIKE YOU WD UP HOOKG UP WH YOUR IENDS, WHEREAS WE MANAGED TO AVOID THAT.”THIS ASPECT OF QUEER IENDSHIP THE MUNY IS SOMETHG THAT RYAN WAS REALLY TERTED PORTRAYG “GENERATN Q,” PECIALLY EX MATAG IENDSHIPS. “[IT] IS PARAMOUNT TO OUR MUNY BEE THERE JT AREN’T ENOUGH OF ,” SAID RYAN.ONE BIG CHANGE WH “GENERATN Q” IS THAT MOENNIG AND HAILEY NOW BOTH SERVE AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ON THE SHOW. “WE HAD BEEN TALKG ABOUT BRGG THE SHOW BACK FOR YEARS AND THEN WHEN WAS FALLY GOG TO HAPPEN AND (ORIGAL L WORD -CREATOR AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ILENE CHAIKEN WAS NOT GOG TO BE SHOWNNG ANY LONGER AND A NEW VOICE WAS G , SEEMED LIKE THE APPROPRIATE POSN MAYBE TO BE ,” SAID MOENNIG. “BEE THEN WE ULD HAVE AN ALLOWANCE TO TAKE NTROL OF THE ROL THAT WE KNOW SO WELL.”HAILEY ECHO THIS SENTIMENT. “THE VISN IS MARJA’S, SO WE NEVER WANT TO STEP ON HER TO, BUT WE DO FEEL VERY PROTECTIVE OF OUR CHARACTERS. SO I THK THAT’S WHEN WE MOSTLY WEIGH ON THGS.”DUE TO THE NATURE OF “GENERATN Q” BEG A LARGE ENSEMBLE SHOW, MOENNIG AND HAILEY HAVEN’T HAD AS MUCH ON SCREEN TIME TOGETHER AS THEY’D LIKE. BUT, BEG THE BT IENDS THEY ARE, THEY FOUND ANOTHER WAY TO SHARE THEIR IENDSHIP WH FANS THROUGH THEIR PODST “PANTS.” THE PODST BUTED ON JUNE 17, 2020 AND IS NAMED AFTER THE NICKNAME -STAR MIA KIRSHNER HAD FOR THE DUO ON THE L WORD.“WE HAD TALKED ABOUT DOG FOR A WHILE. AND THEN THE PANMIC KD OF KICKED ,” SAID MOENNIG. “AT THAT POT WE WERE LIKE, ‘WELL NOW IS THE TIME TO DO IF EVER. SO IF FAILS, WHO R?’”WHAT STARTED OUT AS SOMETHG TO PASS THE TIME QUARANTE, TURNED TO A MAJOR ELEMENT BOTH THEIR LIV. “WE THOUGHT WE’D STOP ONCE PRODUCTN STARTED AND WE MANAGED TO FD A WAY TO DO BOTH,” SAID MOENNIG. “WE WON’T MISS A WEEK. SOMETHG REALLY DIRE HAS TO HAPPEN FOR NOT TO DO A WEEK.”THROUGHOUT THE PODST’S N, WHICH JT RECENTLY H A YEAR TONE, MOENNIG AND HAILEY PLAYED WH THE FORMATTG OF THE SHOW. AT FIRST, THEY TRIED TERVIEWS WH IENDS AND -STARS BUT QUICKLY REALIZED THAT WASN’T FOR THEM. THEN, THEY MOVED ON TO ANSWERG FAN QUTNS, A FORMAT THEY TLY ENJOYED AND WILL BE RPORATG TO THEIR LIVE SHOWS (MORE ON THAT LATER). HOWEVER, THE DUO HAVE NOW REALLY FOUND THEIR STRI WH WEEKLY REPS OF EVERY EPISO OF THE L WORD, UP TO AND CLUDG “GENERATN Q.”“WE’RE SO LUCKY THAT PEOPLE STICK AROUND AND HAVE BEE LOYAL LISTENERS,” SAID MOENNIG. “IT’S THE NICT PLIMENT.”WH ALL THE PODST’S SUCCS, MOENNIG AND HAILEY CID TO EXPAND TO LIVE STAGE SHOWS. THEY ALREADY HAVE THREE ON THE SCHLE AND ARE HOPG TO BOOK MORE. AND THE SHOWS ARE QUE POPULAR—THE LOS ANGEL LIVE SHOW SOLD OUT WH 30 MUT. “IT WAS OUR BEYONCE MOMENT,” MOENNIG SAID WH A LGH.THOSE WHO ATTEND THE LIVE SHOWS N EXPECT PLENTY OF BT IEND BANTER, A CHANCE TO ASK THAT BURNG L WORD QUTN, AND AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS A SAFE SPACE FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY.“IT’S REALLY ABOUT MUNY AND FEELG LS ALONE AND UNRSTANDG THAT PROBLEMS ARE UNIVERSAL. 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KATHERE MOENNIG AND LEISHA HAILEY REVEAL ALL ON ‘THE L WORD: GEN Q’ SEASON 3CLIFFHANGERA WEDDG PS SEASON 3 OF “THE L WORD: GENERATN Q.” OGS MOENNIG AND HAILEY TALK DIRECTG, QUEER REPRENTATN, AND WHY THEY, LIKE FANS, LOVE THE DRAMA’S MIX OF SOAP AND GR.SHANNON O’CONNORSOCIAL MEDIA EDORPUBLISHED JAN. 19, 2023 4:49AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY LUIS G. RENDON/THE DAILY BEAST/PARAMOUNT+HERE THEY ARE: SHANE MCCUTCHEON AND ALICE PIZECKI, RIGHT ONT OF THIS REPORTER—OR, OK, THEIR PORTRAYERS KATHERE MOENNIG AND LEISHA HAILEY—A FEW WEEKS AFTER THE CELEBRATED MIL EPISO OF THE L WORD: GENERATN Q DARED TO POS THE QUTN—OR TANTALIZG POSSIBILY—OF THE TWO BT IENDS GETTG TOGETHER AFTER SO MANY YEARS OF THEM ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY NOT. THE LOOKS ON THE CHARACTERS’ FAC THAT SCENE SAID ALL: NO WAY, THIS NNOT HAPPEN. OF ALL THE CRISS-CROSSG BED-HOPPG OF THE L WORD, SHANE AND ALICE’S IENDSHIP HAS STAYED PLATONIC AS (SO MANY) WOMEN HAVE E AND GONE.“WE WOULD NEVER LET THEM [MAKE SHANE AND ALICE A THG],” HAILEY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.“TO THE RPECT OF THE ORIGAL WRERS, THEY ALWAYS KNEW NOT TO GO THERE. AND JT RRIED FORWARD,” ADDS MOENNIG. “I FD THE IENDS-TO-LOVERS TROPE IS A B TIRED.”THE TWO BT IENDS AND -STARS ARE THEIR UAL BANTER-FILLED SELV ON ZOOM WH THE DAILY BEAST JT A WEEK BEFORE THE SEASON 3 FALE OF THE L WORD: GENERATN Q, WH THE DRAMA RAMPG UP AROUND BETTE AND TA’S WEDDG. (IT BUTS ACROSS STREAMG AND ON MAND TOMORROW, FRIDAY, AND AIRS SUNDAY ON SHOWTIME AT 10 P.M. ET/PT.) HOWEVER, BEFORE DIVG TO THE GAY WEDDG S THE MAKG, ALL THE MAJOR CHARACTERS RETURNG AND THAT UNEXPECTED AND FUN MIL EPISO MT BE ADDRSED. THE FANS MAND . BIS GIVG THE L WORD FANS AN ALMOST KISS BETWEEN SHANE AND ALICE, THE AFOREMENTNED MIL EPISO ALSO CLUD THE RETURN OF ER DANIELS AS LEGENDARY CHARACTER DANA, THE HOT TENNIS PRO WHO AFTER HER TRAGIC ATH SEASON 3 OF THE ORIGAL SHOW WAS LAST SEEN GHOSTLY OUTLE A WATERFALL.“WHO WOULD EVER THK OF A MIL EPISO WH THE L WORD,” SAID MOENNIG WH A LGH. BUT BOTH THE ST AND DANIELS JUMPED ON BOARD WH THE IA.“I LLED ER RIGHT AWAY AND WAS LIKE, ‘OK, THERE’S A CRAZY IA. THEY WANNA BRG YOU BACK, BUT ’S GONNA BE A MIL EPISO,’” HAILEY RELLS WH A LGH. “SHE WAS FULLY GAME, BEE WE LOVE TO WORK TOGETHER. SHE WAS LIKE, ‘AS LONG AS I’M WORKG WH YOU, WE’RE GONNA HAVE A GOOD TIME.’”AS MOENNIG AND HAILEY SCRIBE , WAS ED A GOOD TIME. THEY FILMED THE EPISO A WEEK AND MOENNIG, HAILEY AND FELLOW STMATE ROSANNY ZAYAS, WHO PLAYS SOPHIE, SPENT MUCH OF THEIR TIME REHEARSG. “I HAD BEEN WORKG SO MUCH I WASN’T ABLE TO GET TO HAVE REHEARSAL WH THE CHOREOGRAPHERS, SO LEISHA AND ROSANNY TOOK UPON THEMSELV TO TEACH ME ONE WEEKEND SO I ULD BE UGHT UP TO THE LEVEL THEY WERE AT,” SAID MOENNIG.BOTH MOENNIG AND HAILEY ALSO HAD TO TAKE A MOMENT TO PRAISE ROSANNY’S SUPERB SGG VOICE. “I WAS LIKE WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN HIDG THAT?” HAILEY SAID. LEISHA HAILEY DIRECTG THE SEASON 3 FALE.ISABELLA VOSMIKOVA/SHOWTIME DPE BEG QUE A BIG CHANGE OM ANYTHG THE SERI HAD DONE BEFORE, MOENNIG AND HAILEY HAD AN ABSOLUTE BLAST WH THE MIL EPISO. MOENNIG ONLY HAS ONE REGRET ABOUT THE EPISO AND THAT IS SHE WISHED SHE SANG. “I THK WOULD’VE LAND DIFFERENTLY HAD I DONE , BUT, OH WELL, TOO LATE,” SAID MOENNIG.DANIELS ISN’T THE ONLY CHARACTER WHO’S MA A RETURN THIS SEASON. FANS WERE ALSO SURPRISED TO SEE NOW-FIREFIGHTER TASHA (ROSE ROLLS), BACK AND IMMEDIATELY ARGUG WH EX ALICE UPON THE RCUE OF HER T MR. PIDDL JR. OM UP A TREE.“THE HARST PART OF THE ENTIRE NIGHT WAS THE FLARE,” MOENNIG RELLED. MOENNIG, WHO MA HER DIRECTORIAL BUT THE PENULTIMATE EPISO OF THE L WORD: GENERATN Q’S THIRD SEASON THAT AIRED ON JAN.15, WAS TERMED TO GET TASHA’S REVEAL RIGHT.TO GET THE SHOCK FOR ALICE AND THE DIENCE RIGHT ALL ME DOWN TO GETTG THE TIMG RIGHT WH A LIGHT FLARE—AND MOENNIG NAILED . THEN, THE MERA PANNED TO A VERY UNIMPRSED ALICE.“TASHA AND ALICE WERE ALWAYS ARGUG, SO JT TO HAVE THEIR VERY FIRST SCENE LIKE NO TIME HAS PASSED [WAS PERFECT],” SAID HAILEY. JACQUELE TOBONI AS FLEY, YELLOW, WH ROSANNY ZAYAS AS SOPHIE.NILE WILR/SHOWTIME THE RETURN OF TASHA, WHO ME TO THE SERI AS ALICE’S LOVE TERT SEASON FOUR AND STAYED UNTIL THE FALE OF THE ORIGAL, IS SOMETHG BOTH MOENNIG AND HAILEY WANTED FOR SOME TIME AND NOT JT BEE THEY WANTED TO RNE WH OLD STMAT—ALTHOUGH THAT IS A PL—BUT BEE AS FANS OF THE L WORD THEMSELV, THEY WANT TO SEE HER RETURN. “WE HAVEN'T SEEN TASHA SCE 2009. WASN'T EVERYONE A LTLE CUR WHAT HAPPENED TO TASHA AND ALICE? I WAS, AND TO SUDNLY SEE HER BACK, WHAT A SHOT THE ARM,” SAID MOENNIG.BIS BRGG DANA AND TASHA, THE L WORD: GENERATN Q ALSO BROUGHT BACK MAX SWEENEY (DANIEL SEA) THIS SEASON. MAX MA HIS BUT THE L WORD SEASON 3 AND THE OFTEN TRANSPHOBIC TREATMENT OF HIS CHARACTER THE SHOW HAS BEEN A SORE SPOT FOR FANS FOR MANY YEARS. IN HIS RETURN EPISO, THIS TREATMENT WAS BLATANTLY ADDRSED AN EXCHANGE BETWEEN HIM AND SHANE (MOENNIG), WHERE SHANE APOLOGIZED FOR THE IEND GROUP’S OLD BEHAVR. IT WAS A MOMENT FANS HAD LONG BEEN WAG FOR.“WE WERE JT ACKNOWLEDGG WH MAX [THAT] YEAH, TIME HAS CHANGED AND EVERYONE HAS GROWN UP SCE 2000 AND WHAT, EIGHT OR SEVEN OR WHATEVER THAT YEAR WAS. AND JT [WE WERE] BEG ACUNTABLE,” SAID MOENNIG. “NOT MAKG A MEAL OUT OF , BUT JT BEG ACUNTABLE.”“[TRANSPHOBIA] IS AN CREDIBLY DANGERO THG THAT'S HAPPENG AND ’S WHY SHOWS LIKE [THE L WORD: GENERATN Q] NEED TO EXIST BEE ALL HELPS THE CHANGE. REPRENTATN IS SO IMPORTANT AND TO DO PROPERLY IS SO IMPORTANT,” SAID HAILEY. “MY CHARACTER DIDN’T GET A CHANCE TO APOLOGIZE TO MAX AND I KNOW ALICE SAID SOME PRETTY ABHORRENT THGS BACK THEN.” “I THK ’S UP TO PEOPLE POWER TO MAKE THOSE BOLD CISNS AND KEEP SHOWS THAT HAVE MORE THAN TWO GAY CHARACTERS ALIVE”— LEISHA HAILEY REPRENTATN ON TELEVISN HAS BEEN A HOT-BUTTON ISSUE OF LATE, PECIALLY AFTER A STRG OF QUEER-LED AND PECIALLY FEMALE-CENTRIC TELEVISN SERI WERE NCELED.“SADLY, I THK WE’RE BACK TO WHERE WE WERE BEFORE,” HAILEY SAID. “MEDIA THKS ’S OK TO JT SERVE UP SOME GAY CMBS WH A UPLE OF GAY CHARACTERS OR TRANS CHARACTERS, OR MAYBE A STRAIGHT PERSON HAS A BISEXUAL EXPERIENCE [ A SHOW], AND I THK THEY THK WE’RE SUPPOSED TO BE SATISFIED WH THAT. AND QUE ANKLY, I DON'T THK ’S ENOUGH.”“NOR IS REFLECTIVE OF WHERE WE ARE 2023,” ADDS MOENNIG.“I THK ’S UP TO PEOPLE POWER TO MAKE THOSE BOLD CISNS AND KEEP SHOWS THAT HAVE MORE THAN TWO GAY CHARACTERS ALIVE,” HAILEY ADDS.THAT IS WHY SHOWS LIKE THE L WORD: GENERATN Q REMA SO IMPORTANT TO THE QUEER MUNY AS IS AN UNAPOLOGETIC LOOK TO THE LIV OF MANY QUEER CHARACTERS WHO AREN’T FED BY THEIR SEXUALY OR GENR INTY. AND THIS SEASON, THE MOST BELOVED UPLE WH THE SERI FALLY RNED. Y, OF URSE, THE RNN OF TA (LREL HOLLOMAN) AND BETTE (JENNIFER BEALS) EPISO TWO WAS A HUGE FAN MOMENT. AND JT WHEN DIENC WEREN’T SURE WHEN THEY’D SEE THE HAPPY UPLE AGA, THE TWO POP BACK UP THE PENULTIMATE EPISO OF THE SEASON AND DO SOMETHG WE ALL HOPED WOULD HAPPEN: GET ENGAGED. JENNIFER BEALS AS BETTE AND LREL HOLLOMAN AS TA.ISABELLA VOSMIKOVA/SHOWTIME. “MY OBJECTIVE WH THOSE TWO WAS THAT I DIDN'T WANT SCHMALTZY AND I KNOW ULD TEETER THAT TERRORY VERY EASILY,” SAID MOENNIG, WHO DIRECTED THE SIGNIFINT MOMENT. “SOMETIM SIMPLE IS THE ANSWER TO THGS LIKE THAT. I WAS HAPPY THAT I ULD BE THE DRIVER'S SEAT WH THAT.”IN THE END, THE PROPOSAL SCENE TURNED OUT JT LIKE MOENNIG, BEALS AND HOLLOMAN WANTED . IT WAS A VERY BETTE AND TA PROPOSAL. IT WASN’T OVERLY CHEY OR OVER THE TOP, WAS A SIMPLE CLARATN OF LOVE.WHILE MOENNIG GOT TO DIRECT THE EPISO OF TASHA’S RETURN AND BETTE AND TA’S ENGAGEMENT, HAILEY, HER DIRECTORIAL BUT, WAS TASKED WH DIRECTG TA AND BETTE’S WEDDG EPISO—THE SEASON 3 FALE. “THE BETTE AND TA WEDDG MEANS A LOT TO A LOT OF PEOPLE, SO THE PRSURE WAS ON THAT SENSE,” SAID HAILEY. “THERE WAS A LOT GOG ON ONE PLACE THAT HAD TO BE DONE A VERY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. IT WAS A CHALLENGE, BUT A FUN CHALLENGE.” KATHERE MOENNIG DIRECTG EPISO 9 OF SEASON 3.ISABELLA VOSMIKOVA/SHOWTIME WHEN MOENNIG AND HAILEY EXPRSED THEIR TERT DIRECTG BACK WHEN THE L WORD: GENERATN Q WAS JT BEGNG THEY HAD NO IA THAT THEY WOULD EVENTUALLY DIRECT TWO OF THE MOST PIVOTAL EPISOS OF THE SERI. “THEY JT SAID, ‘OK, YOU’RE DOG 9, YOU’RE DOG 10,’” ADDS HAILEY. “AND WE DIDN’T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE GONNA BE AT THE TIME.”MOENNIG AND HAILEY HAVE BEEN EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ON THE L WORD: GENERATN Q SCE BEGAN 2019 AND HAVE TAKEN ON QUE A ROLE BEHD THE SCEN, BUT DIRECTG WAS A NEW CHALLENGE FOR THEM BOTH AND ONE THAT SEEMED LIKE A NATURAL PROGRSN. “IT’S A VERY VULNERABLE POSN TO BE ON A SET BEE EVERYTHG HAS TO GO THROUGH YOU, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THERE IS A FORT KNOWG, ‘OH, I UNRSTAND THIS WORLD VERY WELL.’”— KATHERE MOENNIG “I THK THE ENVIRONMENT WAS PERFECT TO GET YOUR FEET WET THIS PARTMENT, BEE WE’VE BEEN ON THE SHOW NOW FOR HOW MANY YEARS—WE UNRSTAND THE WORLD THIS TAK PLACE AND WE KNOW THE CHARACTERS,” SAID MOENNIG. “IT’S A VERY VULNERABLE POSN TO BE ON A SET BEE EVERYTHG HAS TO GO THROUGH YOU, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THERE IS A FORT KNOWG, ‘OH, I UNRSTAND THIS WORLD VERY WELL.’”HAILEY AND MOENNIG BOTH SHADOWED DIRECTORS DURG SEASON TWO AND THREE AS THEY GEARED UP TO MAKE THEIR BUTS.“WORKG WH THE ACTORS WAS REALLY FUN AND TRYG TO BRG OUT THE BT EVERYONE'S PERFORMANCE IS A FUN CHALLENGE OR TO TRY TO TAKE THEM TO PLAC MAYBE THAT ARE OUTSI OF THEIR FORT ZON,” SAID HAILEY. “ARIENNE MANDI [WHO PLAYS DANI] GOT TO DO A LOT OF THAT, WHICH WAS REALLY FUN FOR HER AND ME.”THE FALE EPISO GIV FANS THE BETTE AND TA WEDDG EVERYONE HAS BEEN WAG FOR, BUT LIKE ALWAYS EXPECT A PLETHORA OF DRAMA—THE SOAPS OF THE SHOW THAT MOENNIG AND HAILEY HAVE ALWAYS ENJOYED. “YOU HAVE TO HAVE A REASON TO E BACK,” SAID HAILEY.“RIDICULO CIRCUMSTANC ARE FUN TO WATCH,” HAILEY SAID. “BUT ON THE FLIP SI, I THK ’S VERY IMPORTANT TO DIG MORE EPLY TO THE REAL STCTURE BEHD THE IENDSHIPS AND THE EMOTNAL QUALY OF THE RELATNSHIPS AND TO STAY LONGER AND TO GET TO KNOW THE PEOPLE BETTER AND TO GIVE FANS A CHANCE TO DIVE TO THE STORYL AND GET VTED.” THE L WORD: GENERATION QLEO SHENG AS MIH AND JILLIAN MERDO AS MARIBEL.NILE WILR/SHOWTIME “YOU N'T HAVE ONE WHOUT THE OTHER,” MOENNIG AGREED AND ADD THAT SHE ALWAYS LIKED HOW THE ORIGAL SERI YOU NOT ONLY SAW THE CHARACTER’S DATG DRAMA BUT THEIR WORK DRAMA, LIVG ARRANGEMENT DRAMA, ETC. “YOU STARTED TO GET A PRETTY CLEAR SPE OF WHO EVERYONE WAS, PECIALLY AS THE SEASON WENT ON,” SAID MOENNIG. “WHICH MA THE SHOW, I'M NOT SAYG WAS PERFECT, BUT ENRICHED THE DRAMA. SO YOU WERE LIKE, ‘OKAY, I N DIVE AND BELIEVE THIS OUTLANDISH CIRCUMSTANCE.’”ONE OF HAILEY AND MOENNIG’S FAVORE THGS ABOUT THE L WORD WAS HOW MUCH REALLY PICTED THE FOUND FAY ASPECT OF QUEER CULTURE. “THAT WAS THE GLUE OM DAY ONE,” SAID MOENNIG. “WE CHOSE EACH OTHER,” ADD HAILEY.CHOSEN FAY WAS HIGHLIGHTED A BIG WAY THIS SEASON OF THE L WORD: GENERATN Q WH CARRIE (ROSIE O’DONNELL) AND FLEY’S (JACQUELE TOBONI) STORYLE. “IN THIS SEASON, THAT'S MY FAVORE STORYLE,” SAID HAILEY. “THAT'S MY TAKEAWAY OM THE SEASON.”OF URSE NO NVERSATN ABOUT ROSIE O’DONNELL’S VOLVEMENT THE L WORD ULD GO WHOUT PRAISE FOR HER CREDIBLE PERFORMANCE. “SHE'S OUTSTANDG,” SAID MOENNIG. “SHE'S THE MVP OF THE SEASON.” “I DON’T MISS THE SONG. I DO MISS OUR OPENG CREDS, I THOUGHT THEY WERE ALWAYS FUN.”— LEISHA HAILEY THERE IS ONE THG THOUGH THAT HAILEY AND MOENNIG DO NOT MISS OM THE ORIGAL AND IS THE INIC THEME SONG. “I DON’T MISS THE SONG,” SAID HAILEY. “I DO MISS OUR OPENG CREDS, I THOUGHT THEY WERE ALWAYS FUN.” AND THEY WERE A PRODUCTN. “THEY ED TO HAVE TEAMS OF PEOPLE FLY UP TO VANUVER,” HAILEY SAID. “[THEY’D] MAKE A REALLY HIGH NCEPT LOOK AND SHOOT FOUR DAYS AND [THERE] WAS A STAGE WH ALL THE DIFFERENT STUM AND LIGHTG AND MERA TRICKS,” MOENNIG ADD.THE THEME SONG AND LONGER OPENG CREDS IS SOMETHG OF A LOST ART. EXCEPT FOR THE OCSNAL HBO SHOW OPENG, HAS SCE BEE A THG OF THE PAST TELEVISN. “THERE IS SOMETHG ABOUT A THEME SONG THAT LOCKS THE VIBE OF A SERI, FOR STANCE, SUCCSN. THE MOMENT YOU HEAR THAT STMENTAL, YOU THK, ‘OK, HERE WE GO. I'M THE WORLD OF SUCCSN’ AND GETS YOU. NOT THAT I'M AT ALL PARG THE THEME SONG TO THE ORIGAL OF THE L WORD TO SUCCSN,” MOENNIG SAYS WH A LGH. “I'M NOT AT ALL PUTTG THOSE TWO THE SAME TEGORY.”WHEN THE CREDS ROLL ON THE SEASON THREE FALE, TE L WORD FASHN, THERE ARE SOME JUICY CLIFFHANGERS AND UNANSWERED QUTNS. WILL THERE BE A FOURTH SEASON? WE ALL ARE WONRG THE SAME QUTN. “THAT IS ABOVE OUR PAY GRA,” QUIPS MOENNIG. (SHOWTIME WOULD NOT MENT TO THE DAILY BEAST ON WHETHER A FOURTH SEASON WAS NFIRMED.) AS FOR SHANE AND ALICE, HAILEY AND MOENNIG SAY THEY HAVE A WISHLIST OF SHENANIGANS THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE TWO IENDS BE UGHT UP (THEY CLE TO SAY WHAT PRECISELY), BUT MALY, AS HAILEY TELLS THE DAILY BEAST, “I THK WE’LL JT RRY OUR REAL IENDSHIP TO THE SUNSET.” WE SHALL BE WATCHG—AND CHEERG. SHANNON O’CONNOR

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HOW THE L WORD’S LEISHA HAILEY AND KATHERE MOENNIG BEME BT FRIENDS—ON SCREEN AND OFFREAL CHEMISTRYAS A NEW SEASON OF “THE L WORD: GENERATN Q” BEGS, LEISHA HAILEY (ALICE) AND KATHERE MOENNIG (SHANE) REVEAL THE SECRETS OF THEIR IENDSHIP, AND HOW REALY MIRRORS FICTN.SHANNON O’CONNORSOCIAL MEDIA EDORUPDATED AUG. 06, 2021 5:34AM EDT / PUBLISHED AUG. 06, 2021 4:06AM EDT SHOWTIMEIF THERE IS ONE THG FANS OF THE L WORD, BOTH THE ORIGAL AND THE “GENERATN Q” REBOOT, N AGREE ON, ’S THAT THE IENDSHIP BETWEEN SHANE MCCUTCHEON AND ALICE PIZECKI HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE BACKBONE OF THE SERI.WHETHER THEY ARE ROCKG CRAZY HAIRDOS (YOU KNOW THE ON) OR JT BANTERG, THERE IS NOT A TIME WHEN THE TWO ARE ON SCREEN THAT DON’T BRG A SE TO A FAN’S FACE. FOR A SHOW THAT HAS S FAIR SHARE OF DRAMA, THE IC RELIEF OF SHANE AND ALICE—UALLY OBSERVG A JUICY OR EXCCIATG MOMENT OF CHAOS THEIR OR THEIR IENDS’ LIV—HAS ALWAYS BEEN WELE. AND NEVER MORE SO THAN THE NEW SEASON, WHICH BEGS THIS SUNDAY NIGHT ON SHOWTIME. STAND BY FOR SLAPS, HEARTBREAK, GAMBLG, NONTATNS, BETTE (JENNIFER BEALS) AS EVER AMAZG ATS, AND ROMANTIC ENTANGLEMENTS THAT GET MORE PLEX AND GHT AS THE SEASON NTU. IF YOU LIKE YOUR L WORD SOAPY AND DRAMATIC, YOU WILL BE CLOVER. FANS ALSO LOOKG FORWARD TO SEEG SOME CLASSIC SHANE AND ALICE MOMENTS WILL NOT BE DISAPPOTED. THE LAST SCENE THE VERY FIRST EPISO OF THE NEW SEASON FEATUR A QUTSENTIAL SHANE/ALICE MOMENT—THAT, OF URSE, HAS AN EVEN MORE HILAR BEHD-THE-SCEN STORY. “LEISHA APPEARS TO BE WEEPG OUT OF JOY, BUT ACTUALLY WHAT’S HAPPENG IS THAT KATE AND STEPHANIE [ALLYNNE, WHO PLAYS NAT, ALICE’S PARTNER] MA HER LGH SO HARD THAT SHE’S ACTUALLY CRYG OM LGHG SO HARD,” “GENERATN Q” SHOWNNER MARJA-LEWIS RYAN TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “THAT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.”THE MOST TERTG PART ABOUT THE IENDSHIP BETWEEN SHANE AND ALICE ON SCREEN IS THAT MIRRORS THE IENDSHIP BETWEEN THE PEOPLE WHO PORTRAY THEM—KATHERE MOENNIG AND LEISHA HAILEY.THE TWO FIRST MET AT THE FAL WORK TT FOR THE ROLE OF SHANE. Y, ALICE ALMOST PLAYED SHANE. AND EVEN THOUGH WAS A VERY STRSFUL DAY 2002, MOENNIG AND HAILEY BOTH REMEMBER VIVIDLY.“I THOUGHT THAT KATE WAS SO OL. I BASILLY WAS GRABBG MY KEYS TO JT GET BACK TO MY R, BEE I KNEW THE OUTE OF THE SUATN,” HAILEY RELLED WH A LGH TO THE DAILY BEAST ON A ZOOM WH MOENNIG.“AND ON MY END, I WAS LIKE ‘OH, THAT’S THE GIRL OM THE YOGURT MERCIALS. THAT’S WHO’S GOG TO PLAY SHANE?’” MOENNIG QUIPPED.Y, HAILEY, WHO HAILS OM NEBRASKA, APPEARED SEVERAL YOPLA MERCIALS EARLY ON HER REER. OUTSI OF THE L WORD AND ACTG, SHE HAS ALSO HAD A SUCCSFUL MIC REER WH THE MURMURS AND THEN LATER WH UH HUH HER.EVENTUALLY, MOENNIG, A PHILALPHIA NATIVE, WAS ST AS RINT LOTHAR AND HEARTTHROB SHANE. BUT, BEFORE SHE WAS BREAKG HEARTS OVER ON SHOWTIME SHE MA HER BIG BREAK TO TV WH THE ROLE OF JAKE PRATT ON THE CW’S TEEN DRAMA YOUNG AMERINS.UPON FDG OUT SHE GOT THE ROLE, MOENNIG SAYS SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHO ANY OF THE OTHER ST MEMBERS WERE GOG TO BE OTHER THAN BEALS (BETTE) AND PAM GRIER (K), BUT SHE SECRETLY HOPED HAILEY WOULD STILL BE VOLVED. “A LOT OF LIVED TOGETHER OR WE’D LEAVE SET AND GO TO DNER RIGHT AWAY. THERE WAS SORT OF LIKE A NTUUM OF THE SHOW, NEVER REALLY STOPPED REAL LIFE.”— LEISHA HAILEY “IN THE BACK OF MY BRA I THOUGHT, ‘I WONR IF THE YOPLA GIRL IS GOG TO BE ON THE SHOW,’ BEE I LIKED HER,” MOENNIG RELLED. “I GET TO THE PRODUCTN OFFICE AND THE FIRST PERSON I SEE IS HER AND I HAD THIS SENSE OF QUIET RELIEF BEG LIKE, ‘Y, SHE IS A PART OF .’”AS FATE WOULD HAVE , HAILEY WAS ST AS BISEXUAL JOURNALIST ALICE. AND THAT, AS THEY SAY, WAS THE BEGNG OF A BETIFUL IENDSHIP—ONE THAT MANY VIEWERS GOT TO WATCH GROW ON SCREEN JT AS GREW OFF SCREEN.“WE BROUGHT SO MUCH OF WHAT WAS REALLY HAPPENG REAL LIFE ONTO THE SCREEN,” HAILEY SAID. “WE WERE ALL NSTANTLY HANGG OUT WH EACH OTHER OM THE SEND WE WRAPPED. A LOT OF LIVED TOGETHER OR WE’D LEAVE SET AND GO TO DNER RIGHT AWAY. THERE WAS SORT OF LIKE A NTUUM OF THE SHOW, NEVER REALLY STOPPED REAL LIFE.”MOENNIG ALSO NOTED THAT THE FIRST SEASON OF THE ORIGAL SERI PECIALLY, SHE AND HAILEY HAD A LOT OF EE TIME TO SPEND WH EACH OTHER WHILE OTHERS FILMED. “WHILE EVERYONE ELSE [WAS] ON SET WORKG, [LEISHA] AND I AND MAYBE ER (DANIELS) OR SOMEBODY, WE WOULD FD WEIRD ACTIVI TO KEEP OURSELV BY,” SHE SAID.THIS CLOSE IENDSHIP WAS SOMETHG THAT WRERS OF THE ORIGAL SHOW UGHT ONTO QUICKLY AS WELL. “I THK THEY STARTED TCHG WD OF WHAT WAS HAPPENG AND WRG TOWARDS ,” HAILEY SAID.AND, EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS A 10-YEAR GAP OM THE END OF THE ORIGAL TO RELEASE OF THE REBOOT, MOENNIG AND HAILEY’S IENDSHIP DID NOT WAIVER, WHICH AS MOENNIG SAYS IS “A REAL RARY” THE BS. “NORMALLY YOU MAKE SUCH TIGHT IENDSHIPS ON A PROJECT AND YOU THK, ‘OH, WELL, WHEN WE GET BACK TO REAL LIFE, THEY'LL RRY ON,’ AND A LOT OF TIM THEY DON'T,” MOENNIG SAID. “AND FOR WHATEVER REASON, THIS STUCK.” “THEIR CHEMISTRY IS UNNIABLE BEE ’S REAL.”— MARJA-LEWIS RYAN THIS BOND DIDN’T GO UNNOTICED BY RYAN.“YOU N TELL WHEN PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY BT IENDS,” RYAN TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “WHEN I FIRST MET THEM I DIDN’T KNOW THAT THEY WERE IENDS REAL LIFE AND THEY WERE TALKG ABOUT GOG TO HOME DEPOT AND BUILDG A FENCE. I WAS LIKE, ‘WHAT? IS THIS REAL OR IS THIS A SCRIPT?’”NOW, RYAN, WHO OFTEN WNS THEIR FAMO BANTER ON SET, HAS FOUND HERSELF TAILORG SCEN AROUND THEIR CLOSE IENDSHIP.“ANYTHG THEY SAY I PRETTY MUCH WRE DOWN,” RYAN SAID. “THERE’S ONE EPISO WHERE ALICE IS WEARG THIS RIDICULO SU AND I WAS LIKE, ‘SHOULDN’T SHANE BE MAKG FUN OF HER FOR THIS?’ AND KATE’S LIKE, ‘Y.’ THEIR CHEMISTRY IS UNNIABLE BEE ’S REAL.”ALTHOUGH THE SERI HAS A LOT OF CHARACTERS TO FOC ON, HAILEY AND MOENNIG ARE VERY TERTED EXPLORG MORE OF THE ALICE AND SHANE IENDSHIP. “I WOULD LIKE [THE CHARACTERS] TO GO TO A MIC FTIVAL, LIKE BURNG MAN OR COACHELLA, AND TAKE A BUNCH OF DGS OVER THE WEEKEND. I’D LIKE TO SEE THAT IENDSHIP THERE,” HAILEY SAYS.TO WHICH, MOENNIG WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGRE, “I’D LIKE TO SEE THE TWO ON ACID OR ECSTASY.” SHE ALSO SUGGTS A FEW SURVIVAL ADVENTUR FOR THE DUO. “WE SHOULD DO ‘NAKED AND AAID,’” SHE SAID WH A LGH.RYAN IS ALSO TERTED SHOWSG THE IENDSHIP MORE ON THE SERI. “I WOULD LOVE TO DO BOTTLE EPISOS WH VERY SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. I THK HAVG THEM WOULD BE FUN,” SHE SAID. “IF WE GET A SEASON THREE, I HOPE TO BE ABLE TO STICK THE LANDG A LTLE B MORE AND SPEND SOME MORE TIME WH DIVIDUALS AND SMALLER GROUPS.”THE IENDSHIP BETWEEN SHANE AND ALICE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HUGE PART OF THE SERI, SPE THE CHARACTER’S MANY DIFFERENC. WHILE SHANE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE HEARTBREAKER, ALICE HAS ALWAYS TRIED TO MATA STABLE RELATNSHIPS. BUT EACH HAS GONE THROUGH THEIR FAIR SHARE OF DRAMA, THE BIGGT OF ALL BEG DANA’S (ER DANIELS) ATH SEASON 3 OF THE ORIGAL SERI. ALSO, NEVER FET THAT ALICE IS THE CREATOR OF THE FAMO CHART THAT REALLY HAMMERED HOME THE POT THAT THE LBIAN ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL SPHERE IS A LOT MORE NNECTED THAN ONE MIGHT THK.IN “GENERATN Q,” FANS REALLY GET TO SEE HOW MUCH THE TWO CHARACTERS HAVE GROWN AND WHILE STILL RETAG THAT BT IENDSHIP. ALICE, WHO NOW HOSTS A QUEER TALK SHOW, HAS FOUND A (SOMEWHAT) STABLE RELATNSHIP WH NAT. SHANE, WHO NOW OWNS AND OPERAT THE LBIAN BAR DANA’S, IS STILL VERY MUCH UP TO HER HEARTBREAKER WAYS AFTER GOG THROUGH A DIVORCE THE LAST SEASON. “I THK THAT’S WHAT MAK THE IENDSHIP REALLY STRONG. IT’S A KD OF A GAY STEREOTYPE, RIGHT? LIKE YOU WD UP HOOKG UP WH YOUR IENDS, WHEREAS WE MANAGED TO AVOID THAT.”— KATHERE MOENNIG ONE THG BOTH MOENNIG AND HAILEY HAVE REALLY LIKED ABOUT THEIR ONSCREEN RELATNSHIP IS THAT THE WRERS NEVER TRIED TO GET THE TWO CHARACTERS TOGETHER. “NOBODY NEEDS TO SEE THAT,” HAILEY SAID.“I THK THAT’S WHAT MAK THE IENDSHIP REALLY STRONG,” SAID MOENNIG. “IT’S A KD OF A GAY STEREOTYPE, RIGHT? LIKE YOU WD UP HOOKG UP WH YOUR IENDS, WHEREAS WE MANAGED TO AVOID THAT.”THIS ASPECT OF QUEER IENDSHIP THE MUNY IS SOMETHG THAT RYAN WAS REALLY TERTED PORTRAYG “GENERATN Q,” PECIALLY EX MATAG IENDSHIPS. “[IT] IS PARAMOUNT TO OUR MUNY BEE THERE JT AREN’T ENOUGH OF ,” SAID RYAN.ONE BIG CHANGE WH “GENERATN Q” IS THAT MOENNIG AND HAILEY NOW BOTH SERVE AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ON THE SHOW. “WE HAD BEEN TALKG ABOUT BRGG THE SHOW BACK FOR YEARS AND THEN WHEN WAS FALLY GOG TO HAPPEN AND (ORIGAL L WORD -CREATOR AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ILENE CHAIKEN WAS NOT GOG TO BE SHOWNNG ANY LONGER AND A NEW VOICE WAS G , SEEMED LIKE THE APPROPRIATE POSN MAYBE TO BE ,” SAID MOENNIG. “BEE THEN WE ULD HAVE AN ALLOWANCE TO TAKE NTROL OF THE ROL THAT WE KNOW SO WELL.”HAILEY ECHO THIS SENTIMENT. “THE VISN IS MARJA’S, SO WE NEVER WANT TO STEP ON HER TO, BUT WE DO FEEL VERY PROTECTIVE OF OUR CHARACTERS. SO I THK THAT’S WHEN WE MOSTLY WEIGH ON THGS.”DUE TO THE NATURE OF “GENERATN Q” BEG A LARGE ENSEMBLE SHOW, MOENNIG AND HAILEY HAVEN’T HAD AS MUCH ON SCREEN TIME TOGETHER AS THEY’D LIKE. BUT, BEG THE BT IENDS THEY ARE, THEY FOUND ANOTHER WAY TO SHARE THEIR IENDSHIP WH FANS THROUGH THEIR PODST “PANTS.” THE PODST BUTED ON JUNE 17, 2020 AND IS NAMED AFTER THE NICKNAME -STAR MIA KIRSHNER HAD FOR THE DUO ON THE L WORD.“WE HAD TALKED ABOUT DOG FOR A WHILE. AND THEN THE PANMIC KD OF KICKED ,” SAID MOENNIG. “AT THAT POT WE WERE LIKE, ‘WELL NOW IS THE TIME TO DO IF EVER. SO IF FAILS, WHO R?’”WHAT STARTED OUT AS SOMETHG TO PASS THE TIME QUARANTE, TURNED TO A MAJOR ELEMENT BOTH THEIR LIV. “WE THOUGHT WE’D STOP ONCE PRODUCTN STARTED AND WE MANAGED TO FD A WAY TO DO BOTH,” SAID MOENNIG. “WE WON’T MISS A WEEK. SOMETHG REALLY DIRE HAS TO HAPPEN FOR NOT TO DO A WEEK.”THROUGHOUT THE PODST’S N, WHICH JT RECENTLY H A YEAR TONE, MOENNIG AND HAILEY PLAYED WH THE FORMATTG OF THE SHOW. AT FIRST, THEY TRIED TERVIEWS WH IENDS AND -STARS BUT QUICKLY REALIZED THAT WASN’T FOR THEM. THEN, THEY MOVED ON TO ANSWERG FAN QUTNS, A FORMAT THEY TLY ENJOYED AND WILL BE RPORATG TO THEIR LIVE SHOWS (MORE ON THAT LATER). HOWEVER, THE DUO HAVE NOW REALLY FOUND THEIR STRI WH WEEKLY REPS OF EVERY EPISO OF THE L WORD, UP TO AND CLUDG “GENERATN Q.”“WE’RE SO LUCKY THAT PEOPLE STICK AROUND AND HAVE BEE LOYAL LISTENERS,” SAID MOENNIG. “IT’S THE NICT PLIMENT.”WH ALL THE PODST’S SUCCS, MOENNIG AND HAILEY CID TO EXPAND TO LIVE STAGE SHOWS. THEY ALREADY HAVE THREE ON THE SCHLE AND ARE HOPG TO BOOK MORE. AND THE SHOWS ARE QUE POPULAR—THE LOS ANGEL LIVE SHOW SOLD OUT WH 30 MUT. “IT WAS OUR BEYONCE MOMENT,” MOENNIG SAID WH A LGH.THOSE WHO ATTEND THE LIVE SHOWS N EXPECT PLENTY OF BT IEND BANTER, A CHANCE TO ASK THAT BURNG L WORD QUTN, AND AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS A SAFE SPACE FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY.“IT’S REALLY ABOUT MUNY AND FEELG LS ALONE AND UNRSTANDG THAT PROBLEMS ARE UNIVERSAL. NOBODY’S DIFFERENT OM ONE ANOTHER REALLY,” SAID MOENNIG—A SENTIMENT THAT ALSO SPEAKS TO WHAT THE L WORD MEANS TO THE LGBTQ MUNY. SHANNON O’CONNOR

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