{"id":479257,"date":"2022-07-29T19:30:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-paper-girls-interview-rejecting-the-nostalgia-trap\/"},"modified":"2022-07-29T19:30:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:30:51","slug":"the-paper-girls-interview-rejecting-the-nostalgia-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-paper-girls-interview-rejecting-the-nostalgia-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Paper Girls Interview: Rejecting the Nostalgia Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a33b1300d574\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a33b1300d574\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-paper-girls-interview-rejecting-the-nostalgia-trap\/#%E2%80%9CThe_Paper_Girls_Interview_Rejecting_the_Nostalgia_Trap%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The Paper Girls Interview: Rejecting the Nostalgia Trap&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_Paper_Girls_Interview_Rejecting_the_Nostalgia_Trap%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The Paper Girls Interview: Rejecting the Nostalgia Trap&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;We interview the cast and crew of Paper Girls and discuss how the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> challenges cookie-cutter nostalgia entertainment. &lt;\/span&gt;\n&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;div id=\"\"&gt;\n\n\n\n                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Paper-Girls-Interview.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Paper Girls Interview\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Paper-Girls-Interview.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Paper-Girls-Interview-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;Amazon Studios&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Lisa Gullickson\u00a0\u00b7 Published on July 29th, 2022 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    &lt;i&gt;Welcome to &lt;\/i&gt;Comic-Con Returns&lt;i&gt;, our column celebrating San Diego\u2019s mightiest comic convention and its revival after three long desolate years. In this entry, we interview with the cast and crew behind the new Amazon Studios series Paper Girls.&lt;\/i&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong><i>Paper Girls <\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a best-selling comic by the brilliant creators <strong>Brian K. Vaughn<\/strong> and <strong>Cliff Chiang<\/strong> about four twelve-year-old girl friends in suburban Cleveland in 1988. While they are out on the job delivering papers, bullying teenagers chase them into a basement where they have a chance encounter with a time machine that zaps them forward in time. From that point on, mysterious forces punt them to and fro on the timeline, where they are frequently confronted and challenged by future versions of themselves. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They also get mixed up in \u201cThe Battle of the Ages.\u201d It\u2019s a war between the Teenagers of the 71st Century, who believe that the future is entitled to change the past, and the Old-Timers, who wish to thwart the Teenagers and preserve history as is.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writer Brian K. Vaughan (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Y: The Last Man<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Runaways<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saga<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and artist Cliff Chiang (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Green Arrow\/Black Canary, Wonder Woman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Catwoman: Lonely City<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) are two of the most renowned comic creators and two of my personal faves. What engages me about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paper Girls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the idea of taking a core sample of your selves and then letting them hash it out. Your twelve, twenty-seven, and forty-two-year-old selves loving on each other, being disillusioned, proud, and making excuses. In dark moments, I measure my worth against my preteen self\u2019s expectations and wonder if she\u2019d be dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointed. Guaranteed, she wouldn\u2019t think I was even remotely cool.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During <strong>San Diego Comic<\/strong>\u2013<strong>Con International<\/strong>, I participated in roundtable interviews with some cast members, showrunner Chris Rogers, Brian K. Vaughan, and Cliff Chiang<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The room at the Hilton Bayfront was small and noisy, and I don\u2019t know if it was the din or just my reflection on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paper Girls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but I was a touch introspective and wistful.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the young actresses playing the titular paper girls entered the room \u2013 <strong>Camryn Jones<\/strong>, <strong>Sofia Rosinsky<\/strong>, <strong>Riley Lai Nelet<\/strong>, <strong>Fina Strazza<\/strong> \u2013 they all looked more put together than I have ever been in my life. They all seemed so self-assured, poised \u2013 they have careers, for god\u2019s sake. I\u2019m not even sure I have one of those.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it was my turn to ask a question, I wondered aloud if living in the story of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paper Girls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had them casting their imaginations forward to meet their middle-aged selves and what they thought that encounter would be like. Fina Strazza, who plays the academically minded KJ, focused on gratitude, \u201cI think it made me reflect on my future a bit. I almost feel like this show is making all my dreams come true in a way, and I\u2019m doing things that I\u2019ve dreamed about my entire life. I think that in the future, it\u2019s just made me hope that I remember this feeling and really appreciate and savor every moment that I\u2019m doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cameryn Jones, who plays the techie Tiffany, knocked my socks off, \u201cI think <em>Paper Girls<\/em> really opened up a lot of philosophical questions for me because it was like, \u2018What if I don\u2019t like who I become? Would I be content if they were different than what I picture now?\u2019 It opened a lot of those questions for me, but I think being Tiff also helped me realize as long as future-me is happy, I\u2019m good. It opened up the questions, but it also answered them.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The table sat in a reflective silence when Sofia Rosinsky, who plays Mac, the 80s\u2019 tomboy,\u2019 realized it was her turn. She smartly replied, \u201cThat\u2019s a really nice statement. That as long as I, future-me, is happy, I\u2019m good. I really like that. I\u2019m going to piggyback on what she just said because that was really good.\u201d Me too, Sofia. Me too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unchecked Nostalgia can be a pernicious habit, and it works both ways. Nostalgia for the future can delude a person into thinking that their romanticized, idealized vision of that distant island in time exists and that if we don\u2019t reach that destination, other people will get there in our place. It narrows our definition of success. Nostalgia for the past tempts us to gloss over the ugly stuff, omit the pain and suffering, and shrug off the mistakes. It minimizes our failings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paper Girls, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">since its inception, has always been staunchly anti-nostalgia. \u201cSomething that was really important to us when we were talking with the writers is that we don\u2019t want to do a nostalgic show,\u201d Brian K. Vaughan insisted with intensity, \u201cIt feels like there is a lot of fiction about the \u201980s in particular, feels like it has this rose-colored glasses, that it\u2019s more commenting on other shows and movies that we love from the \u201980s. But Cliff and I are old timers, and we grew up in the \u201980s, and it was oftentimes a dark and scary place, a bigoted, homophobic world. We wanted to say, \u2018Look, let\u2019s do a show that really takes a hard look at the \u201980s and says, life is not about wallowing in the past and pretending like it wasn\u2019t this dark place.\u2019 Life is about progress and pushing forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked about the inspirations used to craft <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paper Girls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Cliff Chiang didn\u2019t point to top-forty hits and hairstyles, \u201cA big inspiration for us was our friends, our childhood friends. We both grew up, I think, with lots of female friends, in particular, finding some of their spirit and relying on that to inform us as we went through the story.\u201d Vaughan agreed, \u201cCliff was always big about, \u2018Let\u2019s not do just these \u201980s signposts of leg warmers, let\u2019s make it honest and make it about people.\u2019 So, keeping the inspiration always in the real world and not just the songs and video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s or whatever we loved from the past.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chiang and Vaughan never experienced being twelve-year-old girls the way I did, and I find it poignant that they approached the story of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paper Girls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with such intuition and empathy that they could create a comic that still resonates. Now they get to see their story being told with even greater dimensionality as it passes through the prism of the all-female writers\u2019 room (except for showrunner Chris Rogers), all-female directors, and our four <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paper Girls.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think that perspective has always been really important to this story. We try our best to present a story for young female protagonists,\u201d considers Chiang, \u201cand then with the show, having that opportunity with the writers\u2019 room and the directors to really put that female perspective forward. It makes it unlike anything else that\u2019s on TV right now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vaughan shared this anecdote, \u201cI don\u2019t know how many episodes you\u2019ve all gotten to see, but there\u2019s this moment in episode five where the girls get to talk about something very specific. And just hearing about what a joy it was in that writers\u2019 room that day for women to say, \u2018What an opportunity for us to talk about the kind of thing you not only never see in genre TV, but you rarely see in TV at all.\u2019 I\u2019m so grateful, not just for them, but knowing that we had an all-female director team, that it was a real honor and privilege to see what it added to the show.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watching coming-of-age narratives about being a pubescent tweenage girl is often mortifying for me. The swath of time from about nine-and-a-half to fourteen is one continuous cringe. Fingers crossed that this generation of period-havers have it slightly better off than I did. Riley Lai Nelet, who plays the new girl, Erin, still gets it, \u201cI feel like being 12 years old, not just for girls, but for everyone, there\u2019s this uncertainty of whether or not\u2026 Well, you don\u2019t feel like anything is certain when you\u2019re twelve years old. You don\u2019t know if you fit in or not. You\u2019re always asking yourself this big question, like who am I? I think <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paper Girls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> touches on the bittersweet feeling of growing up and not knowing who you\u2019re going to become.\u201d I didn\u2019t have the heart to tell her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Chris Rogers, who is also an enormous fan of Vaughan, Chiang, and the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paper Girls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> comic, it is all about that unifying act of empathy, \u201cI think the great endeavor of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paper Girls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is to take 12-year-old girls seriously because we should. Because they\u2019re people that are as fully formed and as thoughtful as we are, and that are dealing with often things that are heavier than we are with more raw emotions. And so I think it\u2019s been good. I think it\u2019s been kind of therapeutic.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t think that Rogers is saying that he didn\u2019t know preteen girls were people before working on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paper Girls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He points out that as a culture, we tend to think of our adolescence as a transient state and adulthood as fixed. We recklessly dismiss the notions of youth because they\u2019ll inevitably change. We consider our \u2018old-timer\u2019 thoughts more valid simply because they are the last and most enduring ideas we\u2019ve had. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paper Girls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reminds us that when it comes to the great conversation of \u2018who the hell we are, what we\u2019re doing here, and what does this all mean anyway?\u2019 we are all peers. Equally wise and clueless.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong><em>Paper Girls <\/em><i>starts streaming on July 29th on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Paper-Girls-Season-1\/dp\/B09TQ6H4WX\">Prime Video<\/a>.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: Comic-Con, Paper Girls\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lisa-Profile.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<p>            Lisa Gullickson is a freelance writer and podcaster. When she&#8217;s not clickety-clacking on Film School Rejects, you can find her talking comics and self-care on Comic Book Couples Counseling. 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