Abbi Jacobson has knocked it out of the park.
TheA League of Their Own co-creator and star celebratedThe success of the Prime Video series, which seeks to include new stories that were left out of the 1992 film. “I’ve been pretty blown away by the response this weekend,” theBroad City alum tweeted Aug. 15. “I was really changed learning about this generation of women. I feel really proud of this show + to know its resonating with people really means a lot.”
Abbi said that not all viewers have been as open to the variety of stories the show was telling. “I have seen a lot of people angry and mad at our inclusion of more experiences (POC, QWOC, queer) and that anger (aka fear) has only made me more sure about why this reimagining needed to be made,”She elaborated. “[It’s] why representation matters so much.”
Abbi’s tweets follow a few days following an Aug. 14 interview in which she spoke out about her desire for diversification of the beloved movie.The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah. She admitted the writers were “full-on”Joking that there were no LGBTQ+ and POC people when it came time to showcase them, “alluding” whatsoever.