Ten years after the divisive finale of Showtime’s The L Word, the stereotype-shattering series about a team of lesbians in Los Angeles returns. And it’s all due to unique stars Jennifer Beals, Katherine Moennig and Leisha Hailey, who “actively attempted to carry the show back,” Beals, 55, who performs Bette, tells Us Weekly solely. “It was something that used to be important to us, and we saw that there was a place and a necessity for it still.”
The eight-episode sequel, The L Word: Generation Q, will resolution longtime fans’ burning questions but in addition introduce new characters, tale lines and fresh problems. The Flashdance megastar offers Us a preview.
Us: How has the display tailored to the times?
Jennifer Beals: It truly is much more inclusive of the queer neighborhood writ massive. Rather than utterly focusing on the lesbian community, we have now trans characters within the display, trans actors at the show, and we — not explicitly, however implicitly — take on other problems in regards to the trans community. … I’m actually pleased with the way that we’ve handled that and in particular how [showrunner] Marja-Lewis Ryan in point of fact shepherded us in that direction.
Us: How much has Bette changed previously 10 years?
JB: There are core values and core behaviors that carry over, but folks change. There are a couple of lessons that she really will have discovered a lot earlier.
Us: What was the vibe on set with new and returning stars?
JB: The conversations are completely different now. The lexicon of ways we talk about gender, about sexuality, about self-identification is totally different. We have a complete host of recent characters to investigate the ones ideas.
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Us: Will we discover out who killed Jenny Schecter?
JB: People appear in reality obsessed with that. I simply try to pretend that the 6th season by no means happened. But, sure, you do to find out the cause of Jenny’s dying.
The L Word: Generation Q premieres on Showtime Sunday, December 8, at 10 p.m. ET.
With reporting through Marc Lupo
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