Wynonna Earp’s queer stars, creator on its evolving identities and hot sex
by Curated October 11, 2024 · Gay News / Gay Pride / Gay Rights / The Advocate
Author: Tracy E. Gilchrist
There’s a scene in Wynonna Earp: VengeanceDominique Provost-Chalkley and Kat Barrell in Wynonna Earp: VengeanceDominique Provost-Chalkley, Melanie Scrofano, Kat Barrell in Wynonna Earp: Vengeance Dominique Provost-Chalkley and Kat Barrell in Wynonna Earp: Vengeance“I love that Waverly and Nicole maintain this sexual chemistry and this passion. And I think there is something to be said about talking openly about desire and about sex and about our wants and how they change and how our identities change and how maybe what we [are] changes,” says Barrell, who credits Andras for always being “sex positive.”
“That’s a huge part of keeping sexual chemistry alive,” she adds. “The more we can talk about it in an open, accepting way, I think the more it’s destigmatized a little bit for people maybe in their own lives and their own relationships of like, Oh, yeah, I should talk to my partner openly about this. It’s OK to express my desires.”
For fans who joined the #FightForWynonna campaign that included a billboard in Times Square in 2019 and those who are just discovering the series via the Vengeance special on Tubi, Andras says she’ll continue the Earp legacy as long as there’s an audience for it that includes its message of living to one’s full capacity.
“That’s a theme of Wynonna IP that reappears in so much of my work. It is one that a lot of people in the LGBTQ+ community deal with — the idea of being brave enough to live the life you want and identify how you want versus how society tells you you have to be, or your family or your small town tells you what to be,” Andras says. “I think finally coming into your own and being able to define yourself is a theme that every character on Wynonna Earp has gone through.”
Watch the full interview with Provost-Chalkley and Barrell above.
Original Article on The Advocate
Author: Tracy E. Gilchrist
