Lesbians. Secretaries. Sometimes secretaries who are lesbians… I am solely offered the parts which I like to refer to as “The Unf—ables.” … I was only getting auditions for obese people or 65-year-old people. Or butch lesbians. That was it! …  It’s just fun to play a regular girl for once, not a 300-pound lesbian. The problem really isn’t Rachel Dratch - it’s the idea of what a lesbian character is and should look like, as written by men. So she’s right in not wanting to take those kinds of roles. It’s unfortunate they still exist. Rachel Dratch talks her new memoir, ‘30 Rock,’ Amy Poehler, and her new pilot
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Lesbians. Secretaries. Sometimes secretaries who are lesbians… I am solely offered the parts which I like to refer to as “The Unf—ables.” … I was only getting auditions for obese people or 65-year-old people. Or butch lesbians. That was it! …  It’s just fun to play a regular girl for once, not a 300-pound lesbian.

The problem really isn’t Rachel Dratch - it’s the idea of what a lesbian character is and should look like, as written by men. So she’s right in not wanting to take those kinds of roles. It’s unfortunate they still exist.

Rachel Dratch talks her new memoir, ‘30 Rock,’ Amy Poehler, and her new pilot

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