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With the 2020 Netflix limited series “Hollywood,” Ian Brennan and Ryan Murphy set out to rewrite the story of the film industry’s Golden Age by giving voices to people who did not have them at the time. Modern ways of thinking regarding racial equality and LGBTQ representation were applied to the old-fashioned studio system with the idea that its oppressive power structure deserved to be dismantled. One of the main storylines involved Rock Hudson (Jake Picking) coming to terms with his homosexuality much sooner than he did in real life and openly dating an aspiring screenwriter named Archie Coleman (Jeremy Pope). Pope’s breakthrough performance earned wide acclaim and ultimately brought the series one of its dozen Emmy nominations.

At 28, Pope was the youngest performer recognized for his work on the series by 19 years. One year later, he still ranks as the 10th youngest competitor in the history of the...

With the 2020 Netflix limited series “Hollywood,” Ian Brennan and Ryan Murphy set out to rewrite the story of the film industry’s Golden Age by giving voices to people who did not have them at the time. Modern ways of thinking regarding racial equality and LGBTQ representation were applied to the old-fashioned studio system with the idea that its oppressive power structure deserved to be dismantled. One of the main storylines involved Rock Hudson (Jake Picking) coming to terms with his homosexuality much sooner than he did in real life and openly dating an aspiring screenwriter named Archie Coleman (Jeremy Pope). Pope’s breakthrough performance earned wide acclaim and ultimately brought the series one of its dozen Emmy nominations.

At 28, Pope was the youngest performer recognized for his work on the series by 19 years. One year later, he still ranks as the 10th youngest competitor in the history of the...

Exclusive: Jeremy Pope, the actor who found a breakout screen role as Archie Coleman in Ian Brennan and Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Hollywood, has signed with WME for representation.

Pope’s performance on the show, about a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Tinseltown trying to make it big, earned him an Emmy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Limited Series, as well as the African American Film Critics Association’s Breakout Performer Award.

Pope was also recently seen on FX’s Emmy-nominated drama series, Pose, and has just wrapped filming the lead role in writer-director Elegance Bratton’s autobiographical drama The Inspection for A24. He will next star as Sammy Davis Jr. in the recently announced feature Scandalous!, directed by three-time Emmy nominee Janet Mock, and has previously appeared in Regina King’s Oscar-nominated Amazon drama One Night in Miami…, among other projects.

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Best Actor In A Limited Series Or TV Movie

Updated: Jan. 14, 2021

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Mark Ruffalo has only been nominated twice for a Golden Globe, and has never won. But coming off an Emmy victory for his double turn in HBO’s “I Know This Much Is True” — in which he plays twins in the limited series — Ruffalo is in line for a third nod and his first potential win. But he...

Will a seasoned Hollywood veteran claim this year’s Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie? Or will a fresh-faced newcomer sneak in and take home the prize?

The five nominees in this category divide pretty cleanly along age lines, with a trio of familiar faces back in Emmy contention once again, thanks to HBO. Hugh Jackman nabbed a nod for playing corrupt school superintendent Frank Tassone in the HBO movie Bad Education, after winning an Emmy in 2005 for hosting the Tonys. Mark Ruffalo is up for playing twins Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in the book...

Jeremy Pope‘s debut foray into television has earned him his first Emmy nomination. The actor, who earned not one but two performance nominations at last year’s Tony Awards for his roles in “Choir Boy” and “Ain’t Too Proud,” was nominated as Best Movie/Mini Lead Actor for his role on the Netflix period drama “Hollywood.” We spoke to Pope earlier this spring prior to the Emmy nominations about his role as Archie Coleman, an aspiring screenwriter who encounters numerous professional obstacles due to his race and sexuality. Watch our video chat above.

Pope is direct in his view of Archie’s objective, not just for himself but for others like him. “He wants to be the first person that writes a picture for all people and not just race pictures, which is what most Black writers were doing,” declares Pope. “And I think the dream is not...

Hugh Jackman in ‘Bad Education’.

A raft of Aussies have been nominated for Emmy Awards this year, including Hugh Jackman, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Sarah Snook, Hannah Gadsby, writer Tony McNamara and cinematographer Greig Fraser.

For the second year running, Gadsby earned two nods, with her Netflix stand-up special Douglas nominated for Outstanding Variety Special and Writing for a Variety Special. Gadsby won the same writing category last year with her special Nanette.

Jackman has been recognised for his portrayal of corrupt school superintendent Frank Tassone in HBO film Bad Education, earning a nod for Outstanding Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He will compete against Jeremy Pope (Hollywood), Mark Ruffalo (I Know This Much Is True), Paul Mescal (Normal People) and Jeremy Irons (Watchman).

Blanchett has been nominated for Outstanding Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her performance as Phyllis Schlafly in FX’s Mrs. America,...

The Television Academy revealed nominations Tuesday for the 72nd Emmy Awards, with Netflix dominating the field with 160 nominees led by its drama Ozark. HBO was second overall with 107 as both networks again lapped the field.

HBO’s Watchmen was the overall leader in nominations with 26, followed by Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with 20. Both were nominated in their respective Best Limited Series and Best Comedy categories, the latter looking for a repeat of its win in 2018.

Leslie Jones hosted the announcement event this morning, with Laverne Cox, Josh Gad and Tatiana Maslany doing the honors of presenting nominations in the primetime categories. They were joined by Television Academy chairman and CEO Frank Scherma.

The TV Academy said there were a record 767 different programs in the running for Emmys in more than 100 categories this season, with overall submissions increasing 15% over the previous competition year.

Final-round Emmy voting which begins August...

Jeremy Pope plays Archie Coleman, a Black and gay screenwriter in the 1940s on the Netflix limited series “Hollywood.” He is coming off two Tony nominations in the same year for his performances in “Choir Boy” and “Ain’t Too Proud.”

Pope recently spoke with Gold Derby contributing writer Tony Ruiz about how he knew nothing about “Hollywood” before signing on, working with Broadway legends and the type of character he would like to play in another season. Watch the exclusive interview above and read the complete transcript below.

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Gold Derby: Jeremy, I can imagine that when you go in to audition for Ryan Murphy series, how much did you know about the show going into it? How much did you know about what it was going to be?

Jeremy Pope: I knew nothing. I’ll tell you, at the time, it was sent...

Jeremy Pope — who was most recently seen starring on Broadway in Choir Boy and Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations — discusses his role on Netflix’s Hollywood, being nominated for two Tony Awards, and crying to Whitney Houston in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “The First Time.”

Early in the clip, Pope recalls how he met Hollywood creator Ryan Murphy the weekend of the Tony Awards in 2019, the year he was nominated for two: for his lead role in Choir Boy and for...

Every year since 2010, Ryan Murphy has had at least one of his productions competing in the Emmy race. He’s looking to continue that trend this year with his latest miniseries, “Hollywood.” While the show does feature a large ensemble of well-established actors such as Darren Criss, Patti LuPone, Dylan McDermott, Jim Parsons and Holland Taylor, there’s one performance in particular that deserves Emmy attention, and that would be newcomer Jeremy Pope.

See‘Hollywood’ Emmy interviews: Jeremy Pope, David Corenswet, Patti LuPone, Michelle Krusiec and more [Watch]

Pope plays Archie Coleman, an aspiring gay black screenwriter who’s facing prejudice during the golden age of Hollywood in the post-World War II era. In the very first episode, he sells a screenplay he wrote about British actress Peg Entwistle for $100, but since he’s black, he won’t be put under contract and needs the money. When aspiring actor Jack Castello...

This time last year, Jeremy Pope was getting ready to go to the Tonys. He was attending theater’s biggest night as a two-time nominee, one for his Broadway debut in “Choir Boy” and another for portraying Eddie Kendricks in “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations.”

But he also had a big meeting the day prior with Ryan Murphy, who was casting “Hollywood,” his Netflix series about a reimagined Hollywood in the 1940s, in which everyone was given a shot at stardom no matter their gender, race or sexual orientation. He wanted Pope to play an aspiring screenwriter named Archie Coleman.

“There was a lot happening, my family was coming into town. ‘What will my mom wear?’ It was a lot of things going down that week, and here I’m being asked to make a self-tape,” Pope recalled with a laugh during an appearance...

The beginning of Rock Hudson's acting career was inauspicious. He had only one line in 1948's Fighter Squadron and took 38 takes to deliver the line successfully. Such anecdotes belied Hudson's real career path, becoming one of Hollywood's premier heartthrobs in the 1950s and early 1960s. He later became the first major celebrity to die of AIDS-related complications and gave a posthumous face to the disease.

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He's portrayed in the Netflix series Hollywood by Jake Picking; the series, set in the late 1940s, depicts Hudson as the boyfriend of the fictional screenwriter Archie Coleman. The end of the series takes Hudson's life on a very different path from his real-world counterpart. Here are the real Rock Hudson's 10 best movies, according to IMDb.

Netflix's glam alt-history Hollywood centers on the making of a movie, first called Peg, and later, Meg. While some parts of the series are based on real Hollywood stories, this one isn't: there was no movie called Peg or Meg in real life. That being said, there are a few parts of the story that do have roots in screen history.

The part of Peg's production that's most obviously based on reality is that there was, in fact, a woman called Peg Entwistle who infamously died by suicide at the Hollywoodland sign. She was a stage actress who attempted to make the transition to the big screen in the early 1930s, but only managed to land a small part in a flop movie, Thirteen Women. In September 1932, her body was found in a ravine beneath the Hollywood sign, along with a brief suicide note, and police were able to...

“I think Archie’s mission in Hollywood initially is he wants to break the mold,” declares Jeremy Pope about his character of Archie Coleman on Netflix’s “Hollywood.” The limited series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan stars Pope as an aspiring screenwriter hoping to break into the 1940s film industry that won’t accept his skin color or his sexuality. In 2019 broke the mold on Broadway by becoming the first male actor to earn two Tony nominations in the same year for roles in a play and a musical: a Best Actor in a Play nomination for “Choir Boy,” and a Best Featured Actor in a Musical nomination for “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Pope above.

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Pope admits that there was a great deal of secrecy surrounding the project initially,...

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If you thought Netflix stars Chase Stokes and Jeremy Pope were cute, get ready to have your mind blown by their adorable friendship. On Wednesday, in honor of the of their shows Outer Banks and Hollywood trending on Netflix, the pair posted appreciation collages of one another on Instagram.

In a playful game of truth or dare, Jeremy referenced the beginning of their friendship writing, "@hichasestokes & I have known each other since middle school. same graduating class in high school. & somehow managed to drop our @netflix shows 2 weeks apart which are both in the Top 10 worldwide." As part of his appreciation for Chase, he also stated that he was "so grateful to be on this journey alongside my childhood friend. will proudly run any and all of his fan accounts. hit me up.

Ryan Murphy’s latest exploration of race and sexuality, set during the Golden Age of Hollywood, is currently streaming on Netflix. While the series is fictional, many of the characters are in fact based on real people who lived in and around the film industry during the late 1940s. Want to know more about the true stories behind “Hollywood?” Check out our photos of the 23 true life players who pop up throughout the show.

See ‘Hollywood’: Will Ryan Murphy’s revisionist history get a happy ending at the Emmys?

“Hollywood” follows several young men and women trying to achieve “the dream” of making it in Tinseltown. Jack Castello (David Corenswet) is a white serviceman just returning from the war struggling to get even a bit part. Raymond Ainsley (Daren Criss) is a half-Asian filmmaker desperate to produce more diverse films, especially if they star his African-American girlfriend Camille (Laura Harrier...

Sneak Peek more new footage from the 7-episode, 1940's-era dramatic TV series "Hollywood", created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, now streaming on Netflix:

"...in this sleezy love letter to the 'Golden Age of Tinseltown', 'Hollywood' will look at the sex industry, and how absolutely everything has changed and nothing has changed, following a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the cost.

"Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender and sexuality that continue to this day..."

Cast includes Darren Criss as 'Raymond', David Corenswet as 'Jack', Jeremy Pope as 'Archie Coleman', Patti LuPone as 'Avis', Holland Taylor as 'Ellen Kincard', Dylan McDermott as 'Ernie', Jim Parsons as 'Henry Willson' and Joe Mantello as 'Dick'.

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Ryan Murphy’s latest exploration of race and sexuality, set during the Golden Age of Hollywood, is currently streaming on Netflix. While the series is fictional, many of the characters are in fact based on real people who lived in and around the film industry during the late 1940s. Want to know more about the true stories behind “Hollywood?” Check out our photo gallery of the true life players who pop up throughout the show.

“Hollywood” follows several young men and women trying to achieve “the dream” of making it in Tinseltown. Jack Castello (David Corenswet) is a white serviceman just returning from the war struggling to get even a bit part. Raymond Ainsley (Daren Criss) is a half-Asian filmmaker desperate to produce more diverse films, especially if they star his African-American girlfriend Camille (Laura Harrier). Archie Coleman (Jeremy Pope) is a gay African-American screenwriter who feels pressured to write...

Hollywood icon Rock Hudson gets a new twist on his history in Netflix's Hollywood. If you're wondering whether the real Rock Hudson ever got married, you're in for a sad answer. Despite being gay, Hudson did get married in the 1950s. Although Hollywood gives him a much happier romance, the real Hudson's marriage was disastrous on all fronts.

In 1955, Hudson married Phyllis Gates, the secretary of his agent, Henry Willson. Gates actually does appear in a few scenes in Hollywood, though only in her capacity as Willson's secretary, not as Hudson's love interest; the show's alternate history has Hudson (played by Jake Picking) falling in love with a (wholly fictional) screenwriter, Archie Coleman (played by Jeremy Pope). In her 1987 book, My Husband, Rock Hudson, Gates said she had lived with and dated Hudson before he proposed and she had believed their marriage to be a love match at the time.

This article contains Hollywood spoilers. You can find our spoiler-free review here.

It’s a beautiful fantasy. On Oscar night 1948, the same evening that in real-life Walt Disney’s troubling Song of the South received an honorary Oscar for James Baskett’s performance, Rock Hudson came out of the closet in front of the entire world. Standing on the red carpet with his hand in Archie Coleman’s, a black man who was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar, Rock announces his love to the world and says he is not afraid. But like many sparkling things in Ryan Murphy shows, it’s still only a fantasy. In real life, there was no Archie Coleman, no Meg to catapult Rock Hudson’s career into liberal advocacy, and no coming out of the closet.

In recent years, Rock Hudson is likely most remembered, whether he would’ve liked it or not,...

The cast of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Hollywood will appear tonight on the livestream Stars In The House series, hosts Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley announced today.

The Stars YouTube series, which benefits The Actors Fund, has been featuring cast reunions lately, often pulling together performers from classic TV like Frasier, Desperate Housewives and Sctv. Tonight, the get-together is of a more recent vintage: Hollywood debuted May 1 on Netflix.

Joining Stars In The House tonight will be David Corenswet (who plays Jack Costello), Darren Criss (Raymond Ainsley), Laura Harrier (Camille Washington), Joe Mantello (Dick Samuels), Dylan McDermott (Ernie West), Jeremy Pope (Archie Coleman), Mira Sorvino (Jeanne Crandall), Holland Taylor (Ellen Kincaid) and Samara Weaving (Claire Wood). The cast is expected to share behind-the-scenes stories and answer viewer questions in real time.

Tonight’s Stars In The House begins at 8 p.m. Et on the show’s YouTube channel and on starsinthehouse.

“It was extremely daunting to play someone who’s such an icon and such a hero,” admits Jake Picking about taking on the role of Rock Hudson in the Netflix limited series, “Hollywood.” The period drama from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan takes a revisionist look at Hollywood in the 1940s and features an all star cast including Emmy-winners Darren Criss, Jim Parsons, Holland Taylor, Dylan McDermott and Patti Lupone. In our exclusive video interview (watch above), Picking discusses the tragedy of Hudson and the show’s hopeful outlook.

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Picking began his research with watching many of Hudson’s films such as “Pillow Talk” and “Magnificent Obsession.” As he began reading about Hudson, Picking tried to “delve into the personal relationships with his family,” something that surprised the actor. “I was just trying to...

[Editor’s note: Spoilers below for both “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and Netflix’s new series, “Hollywood.”]

The Hollywood fairy tale has changed over the decades. Long the story of a small-town yokel winding up on Hollywood Boulevard with nothing but a dollar and a dream, creators have looked at that set-up from practically every angle; so much so that the snake has turned on its tail and what we’re seeing now is Hollywood revising its own history. The eye is turning away from Hollywood as a Dream Factory to looking at the machinery of what has made that factory run.

Last year, director Quentin Tarantino rewrote one of Los Angeles’ darkest days — the murder of Sharon Tate — with his feature “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” That film, which garnered 10 Academy Award nominations and won two, received just as much flack as it did praise for the way it gave Tate a happy...

Rock Hudson is a prominent character in Ryan Murphy's latest show Hollywood, now streaming on Netflix. Though Hudson is a very real actor who led a high-profile life in Hollywood, the characteristics between Murphy's iteration of him and the real man are vastly different. In Hollywood, Hudson shows up in the City of Angels with his real name, Roy Fitzgerald, looking to become a star. The handsome and very green actor is terrified to be gay but ends up accepting that he is. This is basically where Murphy deviates from Hudson's real story and into a fictional character.

Hudson, whose birth name was Roy Scherer but became Roy Fitzgerald when his stepdad adopted him, did grow up in Winnetka, Il, before coming to Hollywood to become a star. After sending his headshots all over town, he met an agent named Henry Willson. Like in Hollywood, Willson took a liking...

This article contains major Hollywood spoilers. You can find our spoiler-free review here.

It certainly is a Hollywood ending. On the corner of Hollywood Boulevard, a gas station that should be consigned to obscurity and whispered reveries is now going to be immortalized as the opening scene of a big Hollywood movie. In the year 1948, nearly 60 years before Brokeback Mountain, most of the cast and crew behind Ace Pictures’ Meg are reunited for the first glossy romance about two gay men. And in it, Rock Hudson (Jack Piercing) wears a spiffy white uniform while promising to take a skittish John (David Corenswet playing actor Jack Castello) to Dreamland. Together they drive off to a better future.

Thus the title card that ends the series is “The Beginning” instead of “the end.”

An unmistakable declaration of intent, creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan do not view this as the end of...

This article contains major spoilers for Netflix’s Hollywood.

Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series is here. And as Hollywood begins tripping the light fantastic on your streaming service, we’re here to provide you with some texture, color, and insight on all the little easter eggs about the Dreamland that was. We’ve already gone further in-depth here with regard to the real historical players bouncing around Murphy and co-creator Ian Brennan’s fantasy, but here we begin a nice overview of all the little nods (and perhaps come-hither stares that accompany their winks) in the show. Go here to find all our coverage, including more episodes’ easter eggs.

Hollywood Episode 1

-Ryan Murphy begins his Hollywood show where else but at the movies! We meet David Corenswet’s Jack Castello as he watches a newsreel in awe. It tells him to go west, young man, and find his start in Hollywood’s boomtown!

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Hollywood,” streaming now on Netflix.

Jeremy Pope is best known for his work on Broadway, starring as Pharus in the Tarell Alvin McCraney play “Choir Boy” in 2018, and following that up last year as singer-songwriter Eddie Kendricks in the musical “Ain’t Too Proud — The Life and Times of the Temptations.” He was nominated for both roles at the 2019 Tony Awards, becoming only the sixth actor in Tony history to be tapped in two categories at the same ceremony. Now, Pope is poised to break out as a small-screen star as gay screenwriter Archie Coleman in Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s 1940s-set “Hollywood.”

Given that “Hollywood” was created by two white men, how much collaboration did you ask for and receive in shaping who Archie was?

I met with Ryan [Murphy] and talked about what his vision was for...

As you might expect, Netflix’s new “Hollywood,” which debuts on the streamer May 1, didn’t have to travel far for production. However, the eight-episode series, from Ryan Murphy and his “Glee” collaborator Ian Brennan, doesn’t take place in contemporary Hollywood but rather in Los Angeles, just after World War II.

Production designer Matthew Flood Ferguson captures the 1940s beautifully. Not only did filming take place at many Los Angeles landmarks, but Ferguson also re-created long-gone institutions like Schwab’s Pharmacy.

David Corenswet stars in the ensemble as Jack Costello, a G.I. from the Midwest who comes to Hollywood to be a movie star but finds himself turning tricks with well-to-do Beverly Hills housewives in order to make ends meet for him and his wife (Maude Apatow).

Darren Criss plays an aspiring director in a secret relationship with a black actor (Laura Harrier). Archie Coleman (two-time Tony nominee...

Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series “Hollywood” is not a history book. You’ll hear names like Rock Hudson and Vivien Leigh and Anna May Wong, but the series so freely mixes fact and fiction that sorting one from the other would surely be a frustrating undertaking, and one that misses the point entirely.

In early promotional material, the seven-episode limited series was described simply as “a love letter to Hollywood.” Plot details were scarce, but eventually the show revealed itself as uninterested in the Hollywood we know to exist. It’s a love letter to a different Hollywood. One that never was; one that could be.

“It’s about buried history … the optimism and the opportunities in Hollywood,” Murphy said in an interview with TheWrap. “I think with this show, I just wanted everybody who didn’t get a chance at their dream to get one.”

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“Movies don’t just show us how the world is — they show us how it can be,” director Raymond Ansley (Darren Criss) argues in the new Netflix miniseries Hollywood. This isn’t just his mission statement, but that of Hollywood’s creators, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. The seven-episode tale is equal parts love letter to the films of the Forties and fantasy about how much more inclusive showbiz could have been back then — and how different the real world might have been as a result.

We begin in postwar L.

“Hollywood,” which follows in the footsteps of “Love,” “Easy,” and “Special” as the latest Netflix original series with an overly generic title, actually lives up to the dual nature of its un-Google-able name. Both a broadly appealing drama and an inclusive portrait of the movie biz, Ryan Murphy’s ’40s-era limited series follows a group of creative young dreamers who move to La La Land and try to upend the old studio guard running this town. The actors, writers, and directors’ archetypical rags-to-riches stories lay the groundwork for an enlivening crowdpleaser, even as the revisionist spin on Hollywood’s infuriating hesitancy toward inclusivity raises weighty issues of racial discrimination and sexual harassment.

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This Hollywood review contains no spoilers is based on all seven episodes.

There are two ideas that sum up what Hollywood means to Ryan Murphy, both the place and the new television series he named after it. The first is stated with cynicism by Dylan McDermott, who previously starred in Murphy’s American Horror Story: “The movies hawk an image of wholesome American virtue, right? But the folks making those movies [are] rotten to the core.â€. And yet, in the same episode, Darren Criss (who starred in Murphy’s Glee) dreams aloud, “Movies just don’t show us how the world is; they show us how the world can be.â€.

On the surface, these two ideas appear diametrically opposed, but that’s Hollywood. And it probably should’ve been Hollywood too, considering the new Netflix series from Murphy and Ian Brennan happily attempts to recontextualize, and literally revise, the “Golden Age...

Take a look at new footage from the upcoming 7-episode, 1940's-era dramatic TV series "Hollywood", created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, streaming May 1, 2020 on Netflix:

"...in this sleezy love letter to the 'Golden Age of Tinseltown', 'Hollywood' will look at the sex industry, and how absolutely everything has changed and nothing has changed, following a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the cost.

"Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender and sexuality that continue to this day..."

Cast includes Darren Criss as 'Raymond', David Corenswet as 'Jack', Jeremy Pope as 'Archie Coleman', Patti LuPone as 'Avis', Holland Taylor as 'Ellen Kincard', Dylan McDermott as 'Ernie', Jim Parsons as 'Henry Willson' and Joe Mantello as 'Dick'.

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After showing off the glitzy world of Ryan Murphy’s “Hollywood” in photos dropped earlier this month, the first trailer for the new drama has been released by Netflix.

The show, starring Murphy alums including Broadway icon Patti LuPone, Darren Criss, and Dylan McDermott, is described as “follow[ing] a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the cost.” Starting at the Golden Tip Gas Station, the series looks to be starting out by following Scotty Bowers’ unproven accounts of working in a gas station on Hollywood Boulevard that “serviced” numerous celebrities, many of whom were hiding their sexuality.

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Famous Hollywood names like Rock Hudson and Vivien Leigh will also have specific parts,...

If you thought a career in Hollywood was all lavish parties and adoring fans… well, it’s not not that. But if the trailer for Netflix’s upcoming limited series is any indication, the Tinseltown life is also frustrating, lonely and very, very weird.

Created by Ryan Murphy and frequent collaborator Ian Brennan, Hollywood follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in showbiz, no matter the cost.

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The new 7-episode, 1940's-set dramatic TV series "Hollywood", created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, streams May 1, 2020 on Netflix:

"...in this sleezy love letter to the 'Golden Age of Tinseltown', 'Hollywood' will look at the sex industry, and how absolutely everything has changed and nothing has changed, following a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the cost.

"Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender and sexuality that continue to this day..."

Cast includes Darren Criss as 'Raymond', David Corenswet as 'Jack', Jeremy Pope as 'Archie Coleman', Patti LuPone as 'Avis', Holland Taylor as 'Ellen Kincard', Dylan McDermott as 'Ernie', Jim Parsons as 'Henry Willson' and Joe Mantello as 'Dick'.

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"Hollywood" is the new 1940's-set dramatic TV series, created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, streaming May 1, 2020 on Netflix:

"...in this love letter to the 'Golden Age of Tinseltown', 'Hollywood' will look at the sex industry, and how absolutely everything has changed and nothing has changed, following a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the cost.

"Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender and sexuality that continue to this day..."

Cast includes Darren Criss as 'Raymond', David Corenswet as 'Jack', Jeremy Pope as 'Archie Coleman', Patti LuPone as 'Avis', Holland Taylor as 'Ellen Kincard', Dylan McDermott as 'Ernie', Jim Parsons as 'Henry Willson' and Joe Mantello as 'Dick'.

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