#geena Davis was trying to put on a cast production of Jesus Christ superstar

[biblionerd07]

I’m reading No Crying in Baseball, about the making of A League of Their Own (film), and it keeps making me tear up lol. It was such a novel experience for so many of these actresses to get to work with so many other women all at once and not just be like the love interest or a set decoration. They got to be tough! And dirty! And ugly!! And there was a lot of hooking up behind the scenes! But the part that really got to me was that the studio was so worried about who was going to see it, because it’s a sports movie and those are For Men (🙄) but they didn’t think men would watch “girls playing baseball” (🙄🙄🙄🙄), and then someone involved in production screened it for his daughters who were 10 and 6 and they went absolutely bananas for it, so the studio realized that this was going to be huge with young girls. And none of them had stopped to consider what having this movie would mean to little (white) girls. They hadn’t even realized it would mean so much and be so enduringly popular!!!

#a league of their own #no crying in baseball #they had their one little 5 seconds of a Black woman throwing a ball as their nod to the segregation and exclusion #but Penny was ‘just not interested’ in including anything about how queer the league was #which has me like 😒 even though I know the studio would never have let that happen even if she’d wanted it #but poor Rosie kept getting shit for ‘gay undertones’ in Doris’s monologue about her shitty boyfriend #like no shit there’s gay undertones there for a bunch of reasons!!! #anyway overall it sounds like filming was high tension and exhausting but they all loved it and everyone sobbed inconsolably in the end #and Tom hanks sounds like a total sweetheart in every anecdote #Madonna was an absolute nightmare throughout #geena Davis was trying to put on a cast production of Jesus Christ superstar #you know bc they didn’t have enough to do #their fave hangout was the local gay bar #everybody’s periods synced up and the crew who had to empty the trailer toilets were not pleased #women from the real league were involved a bit #especially in the final scene with the reunion game #which the studio wanted to CUT bc they thought ‘no one cares about these old ladies’ I’LL KILL YOU!!! #women in sports