Ronald’s other half in the show, Blake, agreed.
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“So it felt like all of us had free range to make our characters extremely original.” “The way that Zackary wrote it to be so irreverent in the period that it’s set in, I didn’t feel like I had to play any kind of game with matching my character up with the Darcy that I had encountered in reading, or in other adaptations or interpretations,” said Ronald. And with this backdrop came the opportunity for new evolutions of the beloved characters to unfold. So when the 2015 ruling occurred and Zackary realized there was finally an opportunity to tell this version of the story, he seized the opportunity. Zackary’s first impression of Pride and Prejudice was that it was “very gay” in its original telling. It feels like a time capsule already, which is both great and sad how much has changed so quickly.” And what it meant to be queer through that year was very different than it is today. “And I leaned into anything that happened in that year-that was really our world and our backdrop. “Gay Pride & Prejudice takes place from June 2015 to June 2016, so it is a period piece,” Zackary told For the Record. And to tell a good story, Zackary indebted his setting with intention. “The purpose of an adaptation is not to nerd out, it’s to tell a good story,” he explained. Yet Zackary, fan as he is, looked at his task through a sober lens. “Having someone who’s such a fanatical Jane Austen fan being charged with this has been really fun because left a lot of breadcrumbs for people who are big fans of Jane Austen,” Jesse told For the Record. The production, which has been in the works for over six years, is one that has been treated with utmost care-as well as incredible levity. Gay Pride & Prejudice debuted in time for Pride Month and new episodes are released every Wednesday. Jesse is also an executive producer alongside her husband, Justin Mikita, and Mimi O’Donnell, Gimlet’s Head of Scripted Fiction. The 10-episode saga-chapters run approximately 20 minutes each-stars Blake Lee as Bennet Ronald Peet as a brooding, ex-football-playing Darcy Tony Award–winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Colin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Vella Lovell as Charlotte. The Spotify Original podcast and Gimlet production follows Bennet, a 30-something gay man navigating dating and avoiding commitment in Boston, over the course of a year. Around the start of the pandemic, his idea transitioned from one on the stage to a fully auditory performance-spurring the new fiction podcast Gay Pride & Prejudice. Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay marriage, set out to work on a script for a queer, modern stage adaptation. It’s a personal favorite of playwright Zackary Grady, who, after the 2015 U.S. Pride and Prejudice -her saga of courtship, candor, class, and, ultimately, love and marriage-has been the subject of much adaptation, interpretation, and admiration since its 1813 publication. Photo: The cast and crew of Gay Pride & Prejudice (L-R Ronald Peet, Vella Lovell, Zackary Grady, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Justin Mikita, Blake Lee) on the red carpet ahead of their Tribeca Film Festival Panel: “A Romantic Comedy Event: Gay Pride and Prejudice.” Credit: Getty.įew writers have made their mark on the literary canon quite like Jane Austen.