A League of Their Own Series Embraces Queer Stories

Tom Hanks thinks Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham deed it retired of the parkland with their caller TV adaptation of A League of Their Own. 

The Pinocchio star shared his thoughts connected the changes Jacobson and Graham made to the 1992 film, successful which helium played the no-nonsense Coach Jimmy Dugan. "I'm truly gladsome it's present due to the fact that they tin interaction connected immoderate of the societal things that were bypassed by the original," helium told The Hollywood Reporter Sept. 7. "That's wherever we are now. There's nary crushed not to get into the different aspects of who radical emotion and wherefore they play the crippled and worldly similar that arsenic well."

In the archetypal film, director Penny Marshall merely hinted astatine the intersexual predisposition of the shot players, arsenic same-sex relationships were inactive stigmatized astatine the time. But now, the Prime Video bid openly discusses and celebrates the queer community's interaction connected the sport. 

Hanks' statements of enactment travel weeks aft Jacobson discussed the hateful rhetoric surrounding the show's divers stories. "I person seen a batch of radical aggravated and huffy astatine our inclusion of much experiences (POC, QWOC, queer) and that choler (aka fear) has lone made maine much definite astir wherefore this reimagining needed to beryllium made," she tweeted Aug. 16. "[It's] wherefore practice matters truthful much."

And to that we say, amen!

A League of Their Own is streaming present connected Prime Video.