“It was never about: How can we recreate that film into a show?”
“It was very much about what stories we wanted to tell that had not been told.”
Real-life players also helped shape the show’s story.
Chanté Adams and Abbi Jacobson in ‘A League of Their Own’.Prime Video
“There is no one book that tells the story,” Graham says.
“The queer story didn’t exist except in [brief] mentions.
A big part of discovering the queer community was starting to talk to people.
D’Arcy Carden in ‘A League Of Their Own’.Anne Marie Fox/Prime Video
We talked to a lot of different players.
One of the show’s other key players actually isn’t on the Rockford Peaches at all.
The 1992 film hinted at that exclusion with an iconic scene where an unnamed Black woman throws a pitch.
Their goal, they say, was to tell truthful stories while still maintaining a playful sense of joy.
“And that is not what I wanted to focus on if we were going to tell this story.
“[We wanted] to show that we are so much more than that.
It’s so important not to be reductive in that way.”
“We were playing baseball together for months before we started acting together,” Carden explains.
It was almost like the acting was an afterthought.
Once we got on set it was like, ‘Oh yeah, we have to act!'”
A League of Their Ownpremieres Aug. 12 on Prime Video.
Watch the full interview above.
