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Listen: 'Broad City' Star, Co-Creator Ilana Glazer's New Project is a 'Sex and the City'-Type Show about Women and Their Gay Besties
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 2 MIN.
"Broad City" co-creator and star Ilana Glazer (she/they) has picked up her creative pen once more to write a new show she says is "like 'Sex and the City' with two women and two gay guys."
The idea behind the new project, IndieWire relayed, is that "the woman and gay guy friendship is a big deal."
The 37-year-old comedian, who identifies as queer and non-binary, was chatting with "Modern Family" alum Jesse Tyler Ferguson on Ferguson's "Dinner's on Me" podcast when she revealed the news. She also opened up "about their motherhood inspired Hulu standup special 'Human Magic,' their iconic meet-cute with their now husband, and hilarious conversations they've had with their doctor," the podcast's site thumbnailed.
Glazer's insights about the bond between gay men and women comes from personal experience, as they explained to Ferguson, saying that their "first best friend is my brother," who is a "gay guy."
"All of my best friends growing up are gay boys," Glazer added. "I want it to be them."
Glazer revealed in an interview with British newspaper the Independent last year that they realized they were non-binary thanks to the experience of pregnancy. Carrying a child "highlighted both the masculine and feminine inside of me," Glazer said in the interview, in which they talked about being non-binary.
"For so long, my masculinity felt like something I had to hide or make a joke of, and my femininity was something that felt like drag," Glazer added. "There was always this element of comedy to it that was limiting my genuine personal experience. Then this gift of being pregnant made space for me to be real with myself."
The Tony Award-winning producer of Broadway's "A Strange Loop" reflected on having had years of therapy and tied it back to their understanding of their own identity more authentically. Glazer called the realization that they are non-binary "a point in the process of a long journey of self-actualization."
Glazer talked at length with Ferguson about what it was like to be pregnant, and shared that she was expecting even as she starred on the Apple TV+ series "The Afterparty."
Glazer has also done voice work on animated shows like "Bojack Horseman" and "Green Eggs and Ham," as well as starring in films like the comedy "Rough Night" and the pregnancy horror movie "False Positive."
There's no word on where or whether Glazer's new idea for a series will eventually manifest, but a series with a "SATC" vibe featuring a quartet consisting of women and their gay besties? We'd be seated for it!
Listen to the chat below.
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.