It all started over dinner with DarrenCriss. While celebrating their Versace installment of ‘American Crime Story,’ the duo discussed their next collaboration, aimed as something more “young and hopeful”
The prolific TV creator and Netflix unveil a revisionist take on the golden age of movies, showing how much has shifted in entertainment and beyond:"'Hollywood' can change the world."
Archie exited first, his eyes wide with trepidation, then Rock. In matching white tuxedos, they grabbed for each other's hands and shuffled nervously down the red carpet."Absolutely we are," Rock replied. "I've always been interested in this kind of buried history, and I wanted to create a universe where these icons got the endings that they deserved," says Murphy, 55, who's been waiting out the virus at his home in Los Angeles, with his husband and two young sons, who now require homeschooling. "It's this beautiful fantasy, and in these times, it could be a sort of balm in some way.
Murphy didn't disagree. As a student of Hollywood history, he'd already gone down the road with his FX series , which centered its first season on Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. This would simply allow him to dig deeper on figures who'd long captured his attention, from Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American movie star, who was effectively run out of Hollywood, to Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar and not be allowed to sit with her cast in the theater.
Now, rather than use the series to, say, showcase the powerlessness of a studio head's aging housewife, in this case LuPone's Avis, they tweaked the story so that suddenly it explores what would happen if Avis gained control of her husband's studio. It was the same for several others, including Rock Hudson, says Murphy's co-creator. Instead of telling the tragic tale of a person forced to hide, they allowed themselves to explore what would happen if he refused to do so.
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