Obviously there’s a lot of attention on the Wayhaught relationship, and the LGBT element of the show…

Waverly 6I live in Toronto and I’ve grown up in the Greater Toronto area. Toronto is an extremely liberal place; we have a thriving gay community. Our premier of Ontario is a gay woman. My recent experiences with the fan reactions to Nicole on Wynonna Earp have reminded me how lucky I am to be living in a place that is so accepting and champions diversity amongst its citizens. It’s sadly not like that in many other places around the world. Being part of Wynonna makes me even more proud of being a Canadian and a Torontonian – my city is extremely rare, unique and special. Going into this, I didn’t realise how important Nicole was going to be to fans. Because where I live and the environment I am used to, being gay isn’t something anyone would blink an eye at.

When I saw the role, I thought, “awesome, I’d love to play a confident woman working in what is traditionally a ‘man’s world.’” Nicole just happened to be gay; that was just another layer to her, but not what I was focusing on. I didn’t realize the responsibility I would have to the queer community while playing Nicole, and I’m very grateful for that responsibility. I’m very blessed that I can be a positive role model for someone. I didn’t realise how much she was going to affect people. I feel great pride and honour in being able to play a character that means so much to people. I forgot how hard it is in so many other places for people; it renewed my sense of purpose and my sense of responsibility to represent the community on television.

@KatBarrell

SO excited to attend @ClexaCon 2017! I cannot wait to meet and celebrate with everyone!



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“I’m actually really proud of this. We were done with production well before 2016. I am very aware of the trope from years past, and just my experience on other shows with heavy LGBT representation, but I didn’t know the trope would come to pass in such a horrible way in 2016. I didn’t think it’d be so front and center and an issue that we’d need to discuss given what was happening to other characters on other shows. So I’m just really proud because without being cynical about it, we had this planned since September. We knew we were going to shoot Nicole. We knew she was going to be wearing a bulletproof vest. We knew she was going to survive. It was a little bit of a play on the “Bury Your Gays” trope, but I feel like it’s taken on so much meaning given the year we’ve all had with television.

Since the very first time we introduced Nicole Haught I feel like fans have been tweeting at Kat Barrell, Dom and myself saying ‘please put Nicole in a bulletproof vest.’ I was like ‘did they get the script? How do they know that’s where we’re going?’ It’s been kind of funny in the background knowing that’s what we were going to do and people hopefully would see something like that.”

-Emily Andras

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Well it seems like all of you #Earpers have officially declared the bullet proof vest the MVP of the season finale.