I first met YouTuber and all-round boss babe Breanne Williamson in Palm Springs in 2017, where we bonded feeding giraffes and partying hard at the legendary Dinah Shore – not at the same time, you’ll be glad to hear. Back then, the twentysomething Canadian was an up-and-coming content creator with a couple of thousand subscribers on her channel – known collectively as “The B Team”. Three years on, Breanne co-hosts a podcast called I Can Explain with friend Sean Lusk, and is dipping her toes into the world of filmmaking, with one short under her belt already. Her YouTube channel is now tantalisingly close to 50,000 subs, and this month she’s heading to Las Vegas for ClexaCon 2020, where she’ll be appearing on panels, meeting fans and rubbing shoulders with the stars of The L Word. Not a bad three years, really…
You’ve been a busy bee, haven’t you? Tell us about your short film, Coming Out.
BREANNE WILLIAMSON: I’ve never studied film. I had no idea what I was doing whatsoever. But when I have an idea, I’m like, “I have to do it”. If I sit on it, I’ll talk myself out of it. So I went to this set location that I Googled and I asked about renting it. They’re like, “Okay, this is great. Do you mind sending the scripts tonight?” I was like, “Fuck, I need a script”. That’s how my brain works – I think big and forget all the other things I actually need to do to make it happen [laughs]. But then it catapults me into doing it. So I went home, wrote the script and sent it over. They were like, “We love it. It’s great”. It was the first script I’ve ever written.