Pop Culture Fix: Kathryn Hahn Is Our New Jo in the “Facts of Life” Live Re-Enactment

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I think I might need to be airlifted out of my house, y’all. I am on a Taylor Swift spiral that’s got me all the way back at “Teardrops On My Guitar.” I need to get it together so I can start investing my emotions in all these lesbian Christmas movies that are coming out, and also in my wedding anniversary, which is today. YOU KEEP ME WISHING ON A WISHING STAR, STACY! Good lord. Here’s your Pop Culture Fix, friends.


+ Kathryn Hahn, Gabrielle Union, Jennifer Anniston and Allison Tolman are doing a Facts of Life live reenactment and Kathryn Hahn is Jo OBVIOUSLY. Here she is clutching Sarah Paulson in a slow dance like her life depends on it.

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+ The new trailer for Sex and the City’s And Just Like That got me surprisingly emotional.

+ Kehlani is constantly reflecting and forever evolving.

+ This profile of Benedetta’s Virginie Efira is very good!

“At 20 years old, I hadn’t read Simone de Beauvoir, but I had seen Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct,” Efira explains. “I’m captivated by the way Paul portrays women: in his films, the women don’t leave the subject of sex to men, it also belongs to them. They have a great awareness of their own body and use it to exert their own freedom. In no way are they sexual objects: they are above all individuals who have their own thoughts, desires, beliefs. Sex doesn’t define them. It’s just a part of their life.”

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+ Saved by the Bell’s Josie Totah and Alycia Pascual-Peña discuss LGBTQ+ visibility in season two.

+ Jennifer Coolidge on why she’s always attracted gay fans.

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Heather Hogan

Heather Hogan is an Autostraddle senior editor who lives in New York City with her wife, Stacy, and their cackle of rescued pets. She's a member of the Television Critics Association, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, and a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer critic. You can also find her on Twitter and Instagram.

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7 Comments

  1. I can’t seem to find if the cast on The Facts of Life is supposed to be teenagers, or their grown-up selves.

  2. Yay for KHB playing queer again. What was her other queer role besides Why Women Kill? Is it time for her to join the straight actresses who play gay a lot list?

  3. Considering Kathryn has been a favorite actor of mine since she first started doing films, and when I was a kid, during the original run of THE FACTS OF LIFE, my friends all used to say I looked like Jo, this is exiting news. Thank you for sharing.

    Happy Anniversary, dear ones!

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