.LeagueOnPrime, Abbi Jacobson's first big project since broadcity, premieres this Friday. She spoke with KTHeaney about the reboot and the pressure that goes with making something based off such a beloved film
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The series’ co-creator, director-producer Will Graham, approached Jacobson to develop the show back in 2017, the year Broad City’s fourth season aired on Comedy Central. At the time, co-stars Jacobson and Glazer had yet to decide the show’s next season would be its last, but League felt too good to pass up. Jacobson accepted the job and began writing and researching the vehicle that marks her first big outing sans Glazer.
Of the decade she spent working on Broad City, first as a web series and then on TV, Jacobson says, “It feels akin to your first love.” Jacobson and Glazer are still close; Jacobson tells me Glazer texted her within the last hour, commenting on a photo Jacobson posted to Instagram: “Abbi, stunning.” “She sounds like her mom,” Jacobson laughs. The end of Broad City was not the end of them, and Jacobson expects they’ll find their way back together for projects in the future.
After meeting on the field, where Chapman echoes the film’s big throw before being told she can’t join the Peaches, Shaw and Chapman develop a utilitarian partnership, meeting at night to play catch. Jacobson and Graham knew such a relationship would have been rare in 1943, and aimed to present it believably, linking them through shared experiences of queerness. “We felt like that friendship had to be linked by these things that they can’t talk about with anyone else,” Jacobson says.
When asked how it feels to be on the cusp of releasing her first big solo project, Jacobson modestly reminds me A League of Their Own is also the product of a duo. “I did not do this show by myself. Will [Graham] asked me to do it,” she says.
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