“What actually really bothers me,” said Ilana, “is when people feel like they choose between – they have to hate one and love the other.”Ībbi agreed: “We often tweet and hold our thumbs on top of the ‘send’ of like, ‘ You don’t need to pick‘ … people like both but they get mean about one or the other, and it’s like, why are we doing this?”ĭuring the audience q&a, the duo touched on the degree to which “Abbi” and “Ilana” are based on Abbi and Ilana. “We originally pitched the show and Girls had just gotten picked up and a lot of places wouldn’t buy it because of that,” Abbi said. “First of all, hugely successful show, Lena’s a genius so it feels good, but it can also be reductive just because people are like women in their 20s, you’re all the same.” “I feel like this year so far in writing,” Ilana said, “we’re talking a lot about early digital culture and writing it such that if you don’t know that we’re referencing the ‘gingers have souls too’ video then it’s still going to be funny, but if you do know that video… then you’re like, Oh ha ha ha!”įulenwider asked how the girls feel about being compared to Girls. I lived in Astoria for five and a half years and we haven’t done enough shooting in Astoria.” “When people write about the show, they’re like two Brooklyn gals,” Abbi observed. “We’ve been trying to write this episode - hopefully we’ll get it - on the Brooklyn Bridge.”
So what can we expect from season three? “There’s a thing we talk about every season – should I say it?” Abbi teased.
“We are in the middle of writing and it hurts so much,” Ilana said. Of course, Abbi and Ilana are now onto the third season of the show. “She was my regular and we always got into it.” And Kelly Ripa’s husband, Mark Consuelos, was supposed to play Abbi’s hot neighbor, Jeremy. “It was basically just me and this older lady customer,” Abbi recalled of the pilot, which is now in a “Comedy Central lockbox” somewhere.
In the earlier version, Abbi (then named Ali Ilana was Evelyn) worked at Joe Coffee instead of Soulstice. Mantzoukas, June Diane Raphael, Jacobson, and Scheer on “How Did This Get Made.”Īmong other things, they talked about how the Comedy Central version of the show changed from the original pilot for FX.
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