400 times you've seen the movie Carol.
Yeah.
Hi, I'm Ryan Hynes with Netflix Film.
And I'm Maggie Larkin.
So, Maggie, you're a self described Carol super-fan.
Yes.
What else should we know about you?
I think I might be gay.
How do you know?
Probably the relationships I've had with women.
But also my Carol super-fandom is a pretty good sign.
Why has Carol resonated so much for you?
Every time I watch it and re-watch it, just the sparks that they have you can't deny it,
and I was immediately enamored by the film of course, but also by how fun it was to see
the movie with a full audience of lesbians.
She's an icon, literally a gay icon.
The fem representation I think is really important.
As child, I saw a lot of really butch women and that was the only representation of lesbianism.
How many times have you seen the movie Carol?
So I saw it twelve times in theaters, and then there was a solid year that I watched
it every night.
Wow.
We're talking probably 400.
What a strange girl you are.
Flung out of space.
Your dress says Carol.
Yes.
Are you personally more of a Carol or a Therese?
I describe myself on dating profiles as a Carol-Therese switch.
And I am single.
Got it.
Have you ever dated a Harge, or a Harge-like person?
I have dated men who are duds.
What's your favorite costume of Carol's?
Well, just the plaid robe, which I have a plaid robe.
But, you know, when she's like getting out of the shower and she has it like draped off
of her shoulder, it's like "Hello!"
Thanks, everything alright?
Yeah, I'm just suddenly starving.
All right, be out in a minute.
How often do you dress up as Carol?
Not too often, definitely Halloween. And every April 17th.
Which is their anniversary.
I go to the plaza and have a martini, and if I can, I dress as Carol.
Are you hoping to meet a Therese there?
You know, if I play my cards right, but also the bartender last time, last April said, "Oh,
are you here for Carol?"
And I was like, yeah.
Are other women there for Carol too?
No, he just happened to know.
I love you.
Therese! Is that you?
What do ya know?
How long will your commitment to Carol last?
As long as it takes.
For you to become her, or for you to, for her to fall in love with you?
For me to feel satisfied, for me to feel like I have my own Carol storyline in my life.
Wow.
That's very much the movie isn't it?
I want that ending, yeah.
You want it all.
Yeah.
You want her to tilt her head.
Do you own a lot of Carol memorabilia?
I do.
I see up here for example it says Carol 2015, director T. Haynes.
So this kind of became a meme, it was kind of a meme on twitter.
If someone for example were to tweet a picture of two women who looked close, someone else
would retweet it and just say "Carol, 2015, director Todd Haynes."
Wow, ok!
So we got the shrine here.
Baby Bella.
Baby Bella, yeah.
So this was the album release of the soundtrack.
This here seems to be an important piece.
That's my first Carol phone case.
This is my second Carol phone case.
So that's very good, so I'm thinking-
And there's the glasses.
They asked if I wanted them monogramed, and so I got "Flung Outta Space".
I feel like this is a good lesson for all super-fans, that you have to start looking
in niche ways to incorporate into your life.
I would have never thought to put my favorite movie in my eye glasses.
So this is my wall of fan art, most of this is actual Carol fan art. And this is Edward
Hopper's Nighthawks but with them in the diner instead.
So the blanket's another piece of fan art, the night that Sarah Paulson won her Emmy,
there's a picture of me wrapped up in my blanket crying.
Well, you certainly have a lot of love for Carol, I wanna know, can we have some martinis?
Dry martini with an olive.
Have you ever made creamed spinach and and pouched eggs?
I have not.
No, I haven't gotten that far.
Oh wow, that's real, that's a real martini.
It's a real martini.
Loving spinach and pouched eggs is the limit.
Yeah, I won't go that far.
Right.
I'll have the creamed spinach over pouched eggs.
What time of day is that lunch at?
Is that a lunch?
That's a lunch.
Um, in the book they meet at noon.
Oh wow.
Yes.
That's a noon martini.
A noon martini.
That's a noon falling in love.
Yes.
That's pretty aggressive for noon.
Yeah.
Thank you for having us in your home.
Of course.
This has been really fun.
It has been.
Cheers!
To all the angels flung out of space.
I love Carol.
I can't help you with that.