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Not A Drill! Gillian Anderson And Lena Headey To Star In Western Series

Not A Drill! Gillian Anderson & Lena Headey To Star In Western Series

Gillian Anderson, Lena Headey
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The lesbians have won.

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In what sounds more like a lesbian fever dream than actual reality, Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey are set to star in an upcoming western series for Netflix.

The Abandons comes from Kurt Sutter, best known for creating Sons of Anarchy and its spin-off, Mayans M.C., and follows a group of “diverse and atypical families” in 1850s Oregon who must pursue their Manifest Destiny following the arrival of a “corrupt force of wealth and power.”

Anderson will play the wealthy matriarch of the Van Ness family, who has more than proven her own business prowess following the death of her husband and her inheritance of his mining fortune.

It was previously announced back in March that Headey will play the matriarch of a different family, who took in four orphans after discovering she couldn’t have children on her own. While Headey’s Fiona is described as being motivated by faith, love, and family, Anderson’s character is focused on power, wealth, and lineage—seemingly setting the two up to be deliciously at odds in some way or another.

Considering both women are absolute icons among sapphics (and, of course, in general) for their prior roles—Anderson primarily as Dana Scully in The X-Files and Headey as Luce in Imagine Me & You—the gays are already screaming for this to hit our TVs ASAP.

It isn’t immediately clear whether there will be any overt queerness going on between the two leading ladies throughout the series, but there’s no way we’re getting through a single scene between them without some serious undertones at the very least.

Either way, we’re ready to binge watch this the second it drops (whenever that may be).


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Rachel Kiley

Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.

Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.