Episode 204: Erica Luttrell
Coming Out Pod
English - June 22, 2022 07:50 - 1 hour - 57.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 518 ratingsSexuality Health & Fitness Comedy comedy interviews business news interview women funny culture science comic Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We have a *hilarious* conversation with actor Erica Luttrell (Lost Girl; Salvation; Mayans M.C.), who voices lesbian icon Sapphire on Steven Universe! Back when she was younger, Erica made a point of differentiating between her platonic female crushes (Gillian Anderson) and her non-platonic male crushes (you will genuinely never guess who). But the formative experience of seeing Shakespeare in Love brought up some feelings she could no longer ignore, and kicked off a five-ish year internal struggle with her sexuality. Erica reads some GLORIOUS journal entries from that time in her life, and discusses how she eventually grew to identify as "homoromantic demi-pansexual" (but also just "gay"). Plus, she shares how she *still* gets cast almost exclusively in make-out-with-a-dude roles, even after publicly coming out! WHAT'S IT GONNA TAKE, HOLLYWOOD?!?
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