At a special screening of her upcoming animated film Tangles, Jacobson, who has been married to For All Mankind and Ted Lasso actor Jodi Balfour since 2023, first agreed with a Page Six interviewer about how far the battle for LGBTQ+ acceptance has come before explaining that there are still some places in the country where the couple feels pressured to lie about their relationship. As reported by TheWrap, Jacobson stated, “As my wife and I drive, if we drive across the country, there are states where we are sisters,” before noting meaningfully, “In case, you know what I mean?”
The “in case” of being out as LGBTQ+ is all too clear to people facing discrimination, abuse, and violence for being themselves in public, something Long Story Short star Jacobson addressed while explaining how her coming out as bisexual in 2018 was received in show business circles. (That Blue Wave had to overcome a flood of rancidly bigoted anti-LGBTQ+ political rhetoric, for just one example.) “It’s really wild how we’ve come so far in a lot of areas,” Jacobson stated while, nodding to the crowd at the premiere, she added, “We are also in New York—a lot of people might not feel that way.”
Tangles, based on the graphic novel Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me, premieres on January 15 and stars Jacobson alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Beanie Feldstein, Seth Rogen, Samira Wiley, Pamela Adlon, Phil Rosenthal, Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes, and Bowen Yang.
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