Prime Studios
Any conversation involving this movie will almost inevitably lead to someone reciting Hanks’ “There’s no crying in baseball!” There was even a script floating around at one point that gave Dugan his own spin-off movie. Hanks’ presence is so magnetic, however, that it nearly overshadows the film’s already stacked cast.
A different portrayal
Columbia Pictures
The entire point of “A League of Their Own” is to show the disparity of women in sports, and how they have just as much verve to play the game within a white male-dominated industry. Propping up Offerman above the players would kind of defeat the point. Both Jacobson and her co-creator Will Graham wanted to focus on the players at hand.
“In some places where you go to watch the film, the description is that it’s about a washed-up player who goes to coach a women’s league, and it’s like, ‘That’s what this film is about? […] Tom Hanks is one of my favorite parts of that movie, but with this telling, the coach is not [at the center], and Nick knew that coming. It’s a different portrayal.”
Jacobson, Chanté Adams, Roberta Colindrez, D’Arcy Carden, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Kelly McCormack, Priscilla Delgado, Molly Ephraim, Melanie Field, Dale Dickey and Kate Berlant all round out this wonderful new cast. With the series comes a chance to shine an even brighter light on this spectacular cast of names joining the Rockford Peaches. I’m looking forward to Offerman’s performance, but this is their time to shine on the diamond.
