“…..According to sources who worked on the show, some of whom used their first or full names, Beharie showed a trepidation about the role, a massive and potentially multiyear undertaking. (Ryan likens this to James Gandolfini on the set of The Sopranos, as detailed in Difficult Men.) But both she and Mison showed difficulty adjusting to being the leads of the show, with co-star Jones telling Ryan that both were “out of their depths” and “no one was helping them.”
Amid that, “there was a lot of creative floundering” from the show’s leadership team from the very beginning, one person who worked on the show told Ryan, noting early “red flags” early over the way “problems were handled and the way blame was assigned — or reassigned.” As both Mison and Beharie went “through steep learning curves that sometimes involved friction with colleagues” wrote Ryan, Beharie’s growing pains were treated differently.
“When a bunch of white guys say a person of color is difficult, I tend to assume that there’s a lot more to that story,” one source said. “I found her to be pleasant, extremely talented, and an actor who was adjusting to being a lead. There are growing pains with that. In the time I was there, where the discrepancy came in was how their growing pains were viewed and handled.”
Where my Shady Hollow denizens at? T'is time to gather once more.
I intend to buy the book these quote come from because it reveals so much of what we fans suspected was going on behind the scenes based on what happened with the show. GRR. Justice for Nicole.
Statistically speaking, there’s about 75 men in the NHL right now who could be queer.
Even if that number is much lower, it’s still really sad no one has felt safe in over 100 years of the league to come out, especially in the last 10 years.
It’s really really sad it’s 2023 and we haven’t had one openly gay player activelyplaying in the NHL. (shout out to Luke Propkop tho, we stan always!)
If it’s not safe for queer fans, think about how the closeted queer players feel. It hurts my heart to think about those guys who want to come out, but don’t feel safe enough to do so.
Not only that, but imagine all the queer staffing, chefs, coaches, trainers, team doctors, and all the folks who work at the arenas and make hockey games operate.