Here are some of the interesting quotes, with timestamps, from the magnificent Bering and Wells panel at DragonCon. Thought it might be helpful to some. To be honest, the whole panel is a much-watch, and everything Jaime and Joanne discuss is fascinating and really insightful, so, it was almost arbitrary what quotes were chosen, since everything was so damn good. If you think any are missing or I have mis-transcribed (I could not always discern what was said in the audio), please let me know.
Thanks to @lejunkdrawer for the video and all those who attended and gave us photos, stories, videos, etc. for the fandom to lose our minds over. All hail Joanne Kelly and Jaime Murray! Better captains and people could not be found. Long live Bering & Wells!
Joanne Kelly - 7:55 - “And so I basically taught myself how to write, and now I’m really interested in putting together shows about subjects that mean a lot to me and about women and about relationships that I want to see between women. And I think that the interesting thing that sort kicked that off was the whole Bering and Wells thing because I realized that there were (dynamics?) in relationships that weren’t being told, and I really want to be apart of a community that does that.”
Joanne Kelly - 13:01 - “Women are superheroes … We really are extraordinary and the fact that I think we have been so [maligned] is because men are innately afraid of our power. I think. I really do, and so, if you look at history, women were burned at the stake, motherfuckers!”
Jaime Murray - 16:20 - “[Kim Kardashian] was in the oval office advising Donald Trump! What the fuck?”
Joanne Kelly - 16:36 - “I’m sorry, but my pussy ain’t up for grabs.”
Joanne Kelly - 21:28 - “I was so upset with the fact that they were ending [Myka] wanting to have a child, um, I was just kind of like, ‘I can’t.’ I. She… Myka. Why does she need to want a kid? Why does she have to want a child? Why? Why? The warehouse is her kid. This was a woman who’s obsessed with her work. You know, I never really understood that storyline, so, I sort of tapped out.”
Jaime Murray - 34:51 - “[Joanne Kelly] also looks so gorgeous. You try saying those lines looking into those eyes and not feeling something.”
Jaime Murray - 35:25 - “There were a lot of themes that applied to lovers in [Myka and H.G.’s] relationship. Themes of trust, betrayal, begging for forgiveness, you know, all that sort of stuff that doesn’t often happen in a platonic relationship so, it did lend itself to some of that stuff as well.”
Joanne Kelly - 38:46 - “I once threw a shoe at someone during a scene. I was like, ‘Wake the fuck up!’”
Joanne Kelly - 53:58 - “We live in a world that has a binary [for sexuality], but I don’t believe in a binary system. I believe in a spectrum, like a rainbow, so, it doesn’t pop for me. You know, that’s why [the Bering and Wells] relationship was so easy to do because I don’t have a category in my head about people. I think people are people. People are sexually attracted to whoever, and maybe it’s because I have that fluidity myself, but I think a good actor is a good actor. Doesn’t matter who they’re fucking.”
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