No, it's not about coronavirus
01.05.2020 - 02:01 / etcanada.com
Samara Weaving is ready for the much talked about release of her new Netflix show “Hollywood” on May 1.
The newest creation from Ryan Murphy is set in 1940s Hollywood, but Weaving had no idea that is what she was auditioning for. All she knew was that it was a “mysterious audition” where she had to perform two scenes from “Some Like It Hot”.
It wasn’t until “5 or 6 months later” that Weaving got a call from her manager saying she booked a role on a Ryan Murphy show.
“I said to them ‘I never
No, it's not about coronavirus
By Anita Bennett
There’s more “horror” coming from Ryan Murphy.
Get excited, fans!
Samara Weaving can currently be seen in Netflix’s star-studded what-if Tinseltown tale “Hollywood”, and the Australian-born actress discusses her new role in Ryan Murphy’s high-profile project for the latest issue of InStyle.
By Greg Evans
Ryan Murphy’s new series “Hollywood” is coming at the perfect time, with most of the world under lockdown with the coronavirus pandemic. For producer and star Darren Criss, there’s a connection to be made between what we’re all experiencing now and the show’s post-WWII setting.
For award-winning actress and fierce LGBTQ ally Patti LuPone it all starts with the costume.
I started Hollywood, his new series on , with a clear bias: I love his brand. Not everyone has the palette or patience for Murphy's outlandish camp, made popular from classics like , , , and .
Ryan Murphy is rewriting history with a little help from his friends. Netflix’s Hollywood imagines a post–World War II Tinseltown in which systemic racism, gender bias and homophobia don’t exist — and puts on a flashy show at the same time! “The 1940s are just so ripe with their own mythology,” star Darren Criss, who also executive produces, exclusively says in the latest issue of Us Weekly.
By Marc Malkin
Ryan Murphy has a passion for the past — whether it’s revisiting the making of starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford (), chronicling the lives of gay men during the HIV/AIDS crisis (), reexamining the events around the country’s biggest media scandals (), or exposing the masses to the underground world of the 1980s ballroom scene in New York City (). His latest project,, is no different.
Patti LuPone (left) and the cast of ‘Hollywood,” out today on Netflix. (Photo courtesy Netflix)
Ryan Murphy exposes the racism, hypocrisy and sexual discrimination that shaped the careers of major stars such as Rock Hudson (Jake Picking) and derailed the careers of others such as Anna May Wong (Michelle Krusiec) and Hattie McDaniel (Queen Latifah) in his new Netflix series “Hollywood.” Steeped in heavily researched history, the series introduces a fictitious storyline with invented characters to offer a picture of what might have been, had a more humane sensibility been allowed to flourish