More than a month ago, Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson’s new “A League of Their Own” television series premiered on Amazon Prime Video, and while no news of renewal for a second season has yet been released, Jacobson is grateful for the work he started. In 2018 it has finally brought it to the small screen. In addition to making the show, Jacobson eventually plays Rockford Peaches catcher Carson Shaw, who along the way discovers a lot more about himself than his love for baseball.
Jacobson’s character is happily married to a soldier fighting in the war, but when she meets Greta Gill (D’Arcy Cardon), she meets her teammate, First Basewoman, in a completely different but profound way. starts moving towards. Jacobson spoke with TheWrap in a spoiler-filled Zoom conversation five weeks after the show first closed, discussing how she feels about it, her toughest scenes to shoot, and more. some. But sorry guys, there is no news of season 2 yet.
Read the full interview below:
How’s it feeling to put the show out for five weeks now?
We’ve been working on this since 2018, and then we’ve been done for a while as well. The show has had a long runway for Udaan, and so when it was actually released I was overjoyed. I was starting to panic that it was never going to air and so I felt very proud of it and relieved in many ways.
How was the reception?
I have this very interesting relationship with social media. This love-hate is where my entire career began on it, and has now been a vital component of how the stories are told. That’s how you tell people what you’re doing and it’s the only way I know what people think. People text me or I see it online and so I think it’s been a really incredible response. In the beginning, I was just like ‘look at this’ [to] Those who were initially worried that we would ruin the film. It was early on that people thought we were rewriting history when it was never happening and you really need to look at what we are doing. Since that little first hunch and people actually saw it, it actually sounds like overwhelmingly positive feedback. I am very happy to hear the personal stories of people who are really looking and feeling on screen and connected with the storytelling.
I know it takes a month for Amazon to see the numbers and data, but are there any new updates on Season 2 news or renewals? Has he taken any decision?
I have never worked with such a streamer. So I’m not used to it, the way they do stuff. They are a data company meant to make televisions. So yes, they are doing what they usually do I think. I don’t know if he did the same for ‘Lord of the Rings’ as I imagine [been] raised. So yeah, we’re still in a moment we’ve been waiting to see.
What will Season 2 look like more broadly and then more specifically for your character Carson Shaw?
We have rough ideas about what the show will look like as a bigger picture. It’s a big ensemble, and I think the show is always going to go back and forth between these two worlds with Carson and Max on top of these two worlds. I hope we’ve done a really good job of making all of our ensemble feel like complete people and characters, but I think going forward in Season 2, we’ll definitely want to lean into some characters that don’t. Got as much attention as the others in Season 1. There’s a lot more story to be told with all of our characters, and just some of the ensemble cast that we haven’t yet. And then in terms of my character, I mean, we went on quite a cliffhanger.
\Carson was understanding as much about himself as Charlie was at war without really dealing with any of the repercussions of those choices. And then there was ‘Will this league last?’ It all felt a little temporary. If we had to go to Season 2, it really would have been this: She knows herself so much better, she can hear herself. But now what? What are the consequences of what happened at the end of the season and what does it look like and how does it progress?
Do you have a favorite new line or quote from the show that wasn’t in Penny Marshall’s movie?
the sequence of the final scene of Max and Carson where Max says ‘I’d rather take five minutes earlier than the rest’ and [beer bottle clinking] ‘To the Five’, that’s what draws Carson into his last speech at Peaches, Whatever Happens, It Happens [matters], to be present. I hate to say it because I didn’t like that approach – I don’t like having to bite the fly and do all this last minute work, but sometimes those limits push you to discover something new. are what you don’t get. , And that’s why I like ‘To the Five’. I hope to live a little more like that.
Since Rosie O’Donnell appears in Season 1, has there been any discussion of any others from the film to come after? I know they have reacted to it and everyone is supporting it.
Since we haven’t even been picked up yet, we haven’t been able to have any such conversations.
If you were, do you have any ideas?
I clearly like Megan Cavanaugh and Geena Davis. Everyone in the film is – I think we’ll all be lucky. In the first season we were really trying to move away from the movie, and Rosie felt the most organic to this reimagining. She found the fittest ‘Wow, she wasn’t gay in the movie.’ We’re telling all these other stories that actually felt right.
Were there any scenes for you as Carson that were super tricky or super emotional for the film?
Perhaps the most challenging, but in a good way, I was really excited to spill some things acting wise that I hadn’t done before, specifically, I would say in the seventh episode. It’s like about 24 hours. That episode is short-lived and, on the Peaches side, they’re dealing with the effects of a gay bar breakup and Joe’s business and it all and then Charlie shows up. There’s a lot going on and I think the scene with Greta right before Charlie came was disastrous to shoot. It’s not hard that we couldn’t figure it out. It was just like, playing with D’Arcy in a different way to play where we’re used to it, where it’s devastating, it’s heartbreaking. Carson still wants it to be real and like Grega, look what’s up. It’s like snapping back into reality.
Greta says ‘What, are you going to give up your life for this?’ And Carson hesitates, and Greta cuts it off with ‘This Was a Fling’. I was really excited about that scene, but I was kind of aware of, ‘We should get this right.’ And then Charlie shows up and then in that episode a lot of my character’s scenes with Charlie in the hotel. Charlie and Carson have this incredible dynamism that we really wanted the audience to see why she loves him, why it’s even harder, not just that a woman in her 40s has a husband and a woman’s falls in love with, [but] The reason why it’s really hard with Charlie is because he has a bond. She’s his best friend and partner and she loves him and he’s cute, and they have this weird relationship. And also, he got the letter, and then it turned and like we are angry and all that, I would say it was probably the most challenging but it was also the most satisfying for me as an actor.
Was it difficult filming any of the scenes with D’Arcy, whether you just made each other laugh or because you’re such good friends? How did you go about those more serious scenes?
At first it was like a small thing – we’re making all the time. Not that it was difficult. It was like, ‘We’re going to do this. here is my.’ Then it didn’t feel like that anymore. And then you’re shooting for like three in the morning. You break the seal of laughter once you leave, and it’s like, we have to go. We are under these crazy time crunches. I think those scenes I just talked about [episode] Seven, more passionate, I think it’s also knowing, as a visual companion, D’Arcy is one of my best friends and knowing what he needs.
“A League of Their Own” is now streaming on Prime Video.
