Nichole Hill
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35 appearances
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1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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This doesn't make any sense to do all these things. At once, like all together, it just seems brutal and devastating and just like so taxing for an adult, let alone a child.
But I love that we work towards that. Because I do, like in our meetings, when we were talking about this, we were like, we're making this so that somebody who can intervene in the lives of these girls hears it with the hope that they hear it and that they do. And obviously that can still happen. And so that was... That's just to have that as a North Star. It keeps us honest.
It keeps us focused on what, on the story we want to tell and not on like some of the pieces of it that were just so upsetting and enraging. You just like want to rage against people and systems and all these things. But if somebody near them hears this and knows her and loves her and knows these girls and loves them, we need to be telling the story in a way that that person can hear.
and wouldn't just immediately shut them off. And so I do think that we kept that top of mind. And watching Chalice's... I did not think that... I really did not think that Chalice was ever going to come on the show. That wasn't even really... I was just like, you wouldn't do that. So the amount of courage... that it took is just, it just blows me away.
And also how heartbreaking it has to be to get to a place where you're like, you know what? They're right. Like, I can't ignore these things anymore. To have the little flags and be like, I hope, because like you, Mariah, I was like, I really hope that this isn't abuse.
And when we were doing the earlier episodes and I would first get the scripts, I was like, yeah, this is some unsavory behavior, but maybe it's not abuse. And then you get further in the season and it's just undeniable. And I'm just a story editor coming at it not knowing these girls and not having that love for them and not knowing Sophie, not having that love for her.
And so to listen and to get to the point where you have to finally acknowledge is really, really heartbreaking. And just the amount of courage it takes to admit that within yourself and then come on a show and admit that to everybody else is just extraordinary. I'm like blown away.
I was going to say something about that, too. I was like, oh, Canada. We don't know. We don't know what's going on.
It's a lot to be in community. It's a lot to be in community with people. But I mean, this is what's going to be needed, especially as we move forward, knowing the cuts that are being made to sort of the safeguards around vulnerable children and people.
I think it's really important, and I think it really, it's not the main story of the season, but just the ways in which people, for lack of a better term, saw something and said something around the girls. That makes all the difference. I worked in public schools for, you know, in and around public schools for nearly a decade. It's...
The people who are around kids at schools and then after school activities and then when you're babysitting, those are the ones who spot these issues most often and are the ones to raise the alarm. And so I think if there's any kind of, you know, this isn't again, not the A story, but the B story of this is just the work of community and protecting one another and in protecting kids.
And I hope that that comes across in Chalice's role. I hope it comes across, you know, with the neighbors and the parents at gymnastics and all over, all throughout the season, we just saw people seeing something and saying something. And that's so important when it comes to protecting kids. So my last thought is just around that.
I hope everybody gets involved either in your school or wherever you can get involved in your community where you have the capacity to be consistent and engaged. I really think right now it is very important.
Comedy comes from this stuff, you know.
Comedy and tragedy.
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