{"id":813,"date":"2017-03-06T19:48:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T19:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/03\/06\/sxsw-selection-i-love-bekka-and-lucy-celebrates-female-friendship-watch-exclusive-clip\/"},"modified":"2017-03-06T19:48:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T19:48:20","slug":"sxsw-selection-i-love-bekka-and-lucy-celebrates-female-friendship-watch-exclusive-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/03\/06\/sxsw-selection-i-love-bekka-and-lucy-celebrates-female-friendship-watch-exclusive-clip\/","title":{"rendered":"SXSW Selection \u2018I Love Bekka and Lucy\u2019 Celebrates Female Friendship \u2014 Watch Exclusive Clip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having found success with her 2012 web series \u201cI Love Lucy &amp; Bekka,\u201d playwright Rachael Holder is returning with a full-scale short form series, \u201cI Love Bekka and Lucy,\u201d premiering worldwide at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/sxsw\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sxsw\">SXSW<\/a> this year as part of the Episodic line-up. Produced by Stage 13 through Warner Brothers, \u201cI Love Bekka and Lucy\u201d emphasizes the same ideas of friendship from the previous series, but with more time available to flesh out these two inseparable best friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/jessica-parker-kennedy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jessica-parker-kennedy\">Jessica Parker Kennedy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/tanisha-long\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tanisha-long\">Tanisha Long<\/a> star as Bekka and Lucy, respectively. The two bounce off each other in ways that aren\u2019t always so seamless, as Bekka\u2019s cynicism plays against Lucy\u2019s dreamier personality. Despite their differences, their deep friendship grounds them. Rounding out the rest of the cast in Holder\u2019s world is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/alexis-denisof\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alexis-denisof\">Alexis Denisof<\/a> (&#8220;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&#8221; and &#8220;Angel&#8221; fame), as well as Chris Smith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/01\/sxsw-2017-film-lineup-surprises-hidden-gems-assholes-barbecue-gemini-1201776543\/\">READ MORE:\u00a0SXSW 2017 Lineup: Drug-Addicted Lovers and Barbecue Lead Surprises and Hidden Gems<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With a largely female cast and crew, Holder is hoping to enhance our perspective on the nuances of female friendship. While sharing similarities to the likes of \u201cBroad City,\u201d \u201cI Love Bekka and Lucy\u201d leans further into the realistic type of conflict friends still can face with each other. With digitally-minded distribution, \u201cI Love Bekka and Lucy\u201d also represents a shift beyond its content \u2014 Stage 13 is part of a larger initiative by Warner Brothers to develop and promote content from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/digital\/\" id=\"auto-tag_digital\">digital<\/a> perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this exclusive clip below, in which Becca argues that Lucy&#8217;s rush to get married is \u201cfeeding some deadline that no longer exists for our gender.&#8221; \u201cI Love Bekka and Lucy\u201d is premiering at SXSW and ultimately streaming digitally through Stage 13.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/email\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: IndieWire Digital TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having found success with her 2012 web series \u201cI Love Lucy &amp; Bekka,\u201d playwright Rachael Holder is returning with a full-scale&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-d7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}