ראיון עם joss
זה רק שאלה ותשובה אחת כי השאר יספיילר אותכם מוות, ואין שום סיכוי שאני אעשה לכם את זה. אבל אם לא קראתם את כל הפתיל הזה אז אל תקראו את ההודעה הזאת O: Speaking of sex and reality, the Tara-and-Willow relationship has been controversial from several angles, with one side of the spectrum accusing you of promoting a homosexual agenda while the other side accuses you of exploiting lesbian chic. JW: You just have to ignore that. I actually went online and said, "I realize that this has shocked a lot of people, and I´ve made a mistake by trying to shove this lifestyle--which is embraced by, maybe, at most, 10 percent of Americans--down people´s throats. So I´m going to take it back, and from now on, Willow will no longer be a Jew." And somebody was actually like, [adopts agitated whine] "What do you mean she´s not going to be a Jew anymore?" I was like, "Can we get a ´sarcasm´ font?" But, you know, the first criticism we got was, "She´s not gay enough. They´re not gay enough." We were playing it as a metaphor, and it was like, "Why don´t they come out? They´re not gay enough!" And eventually we did start to say, "Well, maybe we´re being a little coy. They´ve got good chemistry, this is working out, why don´t we just go ahead and make them go for it?" And, of course, once you bring it out in the open, it´s no longer a metaphor. Then it´s just an Issue. But we never played it that way. Ultimately, some people say "lesbian chic," I say, "Okay, whatever." Those criticisms don´t really bug me. You look at shows like Ally McBeal and Party Of Five, which both did lesbian kisses that were promoted and hyped for months and months, and afterwards the characters were like, "Well, I seem to be very heterosexual! Thank you for that steamy lesbian kiss!" Our whole mission statement was that we would bury their first kiss inside an episode that had nothing to do with it, and never promote it, which I guess caught people off-guard at The WB. The reason we had them kiss was because if they didn´t, it would start to get coy and, quite frankly, a little offensive, for two people that much in love to not have any physicality. But the whole mission statement was, "We´ll put it where nobody expects it, and we´ll never talk about it." I mean, there are people who are genuinely concerned--are we falling into a pattern that other shows are falling into? It´s very possible. The WB was like, "We have gay characters on all our shows. Why didn´t you tell us you were making characters gay?" "Well, I don´t watch your other shows. I didn´t know." I´m sort of not really aware of what´s going on out there. So the accusations of, "You shouldn´t have a gay character on your show," those people are just--they should just be tied to a rock. "Whatever, you dumb people." Not that I feel strongly. But the other ones, "Oh, you just do that because it´s sexy"... Well, the writers, and the men and women on the set, are like, "Yeah, it is pretty sexy!" I mean, so were Buffy and Angel. If it´s not sexy, then it´s not worth it. Like those two guys in thirtysomething sitting in bed together, looking like they were individually wrapped in plastic. They did a scene with two guys in bed, and it was a big deal, on thirtysomething, and it was the most antiseptic thing I´ve ever seen in my life. They were sitting ramrod-straight, far away from each other, and not even looking at each other. I was like, "Ahhh, sexy!"