My wife just gave me an early wedding anniversary present. She had commissioned a friend to make it for me before she knew of @hbo ‘s decision to cancel the series. It took so much out of me to not break down into sobs when I unwrapped it. The power of words. Between Anne’s diaries and Sally’s scripts, the melding of 2 minds… Anne seeking solace in her diaries by living her truest life, and Sally realising her dream by making @gentlemanjackofficial after all these years since she learnt of Anne’s existence and knowing in her bones what an impact it will have. It has certainly changed my life with my new found confidence in living more authentically!
I asked the wife what made her choose this quote and she said “these are fighting words”, and that blew me away. I mean she knows me, obviously, having been with me for coming to 20 yrs and married for almost 4, but this sums it up perfectly. Anne loving and living the way she did, true to herself, her nature, the way God intended, reconciling her faith with her sexuality in a time where there wasn’t even a term for lesbians.
I get @bbc ‘s reluctance to go it alone and risk making a sub-par product after such a high production standard all round. We have to keep pushing and marshal the troops in seeking help to resurrect the series. Come on! Let’s crack on with it!
