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Hollywood on Netflix: Everything We Know About Ryan Murphy's Next Masterpiece


Hollywood on Netflix couldn’t start streaming soon enough.

On Thursday, Netflix released the first set of images from Murphy’s upcoming limited series, Hollywood, starring some of Murphy’s favorite actors, including Darren Criss, Patti LuPone, and Dylan McDermott. Honestly, this show sounds exactly like the gorgeous, aspirational period piece we all need in our lives right now. Here’s everything we know about the upcoming series that you should bookmark on Netflix.

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The plot follows an alternate 1940s Hollywood. The limited series, which Murphy—who has brought you American Horror Story, Glee, The Politician, etc—co-created with Ian Brennan, will mix real Hollywood figures and fictional characters from the 1940s to reimagine what Hollywood could have been. As the show’s creators noted, it’s an “aspirational tale of what ifs.”

“With the present so fraught and the future uncertain, we turned to the past for direction, uncovering buried history to spin an aspirational tale of what ifs,” Janet Mock, the show’s executive producer, writer, and director shared with The Hollywood Reporter. “What if a band of outsiders were given a chance to tell their own story? What if the person with greenlight power was a woman? The screenwriter a black man? What if the heroine was a woman of color? The matinee idol openly gay? And what if they were all invited into the room where the decisions are made, entering fully and unapologetically themselves to leave victorious and vaunted, their place in history cemented?”

It harkens back to another Murphy miniseries. According to Murphy, he’s wanted to create something around an alternate Hollywood universe since he created the FX miniseries, Feud.

“Ever since I did ‘Feud’, I had been working on a piece about the buried history of Hollywood,” he shared with USA Today. “I was very interested, even as a young person, in three people: Rock Hudson, Anna May Wong, and Hattie McDaniel. I’d been sort of noodling with that and then Darren Criss and I had dinner after [‘The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story’] and we were talking about what we wanted to work on next. And we both wanted to do something that would be inspirational, upbeat and that had a happy ending, that was about victories.”

The cast is a who’s who of Hollywood. Want to watch all the coolest people in modern-day Hollywood in one show? Now’s your chance. Like we said above, the cast is stacked with Murphy favorites including Laura Harrier, David Corenswet, Samara Weaving, Holland Taylor, Patti LuPone, and The Big Bang Theory‘s Jim Parsons. That’s just the start of this A-list roster.

__It starts streaming May 1.__The seven-episode limited series premieres on Netflix on Friday, May 1. If you don’t have Netflix by now what are you waiting for? Beyond bookmarking “Hollywood” here are 51 movies you can stream on the platform right now.

Let’s just marvel at some more photos from the series…

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Yeah, I’m marking my calendar right now.



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Laura Dern Is Sick of Hollywood Measuring Women Up Against Each Other


But aside from that, I think using products with petroleum in them, as my skin care regimen was probably not ideal. Although I’d love to bring back Indian Earth, which was my mother’s favorite product.

What’s one beauty rule you swear by?

If it’s good for the planet, it’s good for me.

What’s one beauty rule you think is B.S.?

The idea that you have to alter yourself to fit into someone else’s model of beauty. That is such B.S.! By the way, that boyfriend is going to break up with you in a year. And then you’ve changed a body part because he demanded it, and the next guy is going to be like, “Why did you do that? I loved those pictures of you from four years ago!” You never want to be the person who continues to alter themselves for the next lover, you know what I mean? Enough. You gotta learn to be happy with that.

Fill in the blank: “I love my hair…”

I love my hair after swimming in the ocean, for sure. It’s like, let it be where it’s supposed to be naturally. I just I love that. It feels so good to have salt water in it.

You travel constantly. What city or country gives you the greatest beauty inspiration?

Probably the greatest beauty inspiration is when I’m in a really moist climate in nature on a hike, and I feel fresh air and dew on my skin. I’m like, “Oh, I’m always meant to feel like this.”

You’re stranded on a desert island. What are the three products you bring with you?

I would have to be hydrated, so I would definitely bring my True Botanicals Radiance Oil and Hydrating Mist, for sure. And then I have a rose deodorant that’s natural. It smells good, and I think that might be a good call.

What colors are loving on your nails right now?

Probably the one I use the most is Deborah Lippmann’s Naked. It’s really clean and beautiful.

What’s your go-to getting-ready music?

I think Tom Petty should be played as much as possible. Because then we still have him with us.

Your hair is gorgeous. What do you to keep it in such great shape?

You know, I thank you. I’ve tried—but not always succeeded—in not overprocessing it over many years as an actor. When I do, it suffers. So I try to treat my hair as naturally as we’re talking about with skin care.

What’s your favorite way to take a moment for yourself?



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Eric Dane, the Most Sexualized Man in Hollywood


Though Euphoria’s Cal Jacobs is a darker, meatier role than Dane’s previous characters, it’s not lost on the viewer how the camera lingers over his most celebrated feature: his body. A body that’s a little less painstakingly defined now, and hair that’s newly silver. Mark Sloan but make him dad. Even with the disturbing context with which we meet him, it’s clear the sheer power of his form was front and center for a reason. Much like in the now-iconic Grey’s towel scene, “Cal starts out like a punch in the face,” says Dane. He towers over Jules, who lays back on the motel bed, all skin, bones, and mini skirt. While it’s not as sexy as his introduction on Grey’s, it’s undeniably just as sexual. “The common denominator is that I’m naked,” Dane says. “But it’s a lot deeper than that. With Mark Sloan, it was absolutely more of an aesthetic, and with Cal Jacobs it’s more [that] Cal wants to control and dominate.”

It’s also that Mark Sloan existed in the universe of network television, where his towel will always remain perfectly, flirtily in place. But on Euphoria—which came under fire for having a scene where they showed a total of 30 penises in one sequence—the sex is gritty, and isn’t always fun to watch. It’s not “hanky panky” in an on-call room during a graveyard shift, it’s two people acting out their most forbidden desires. It’s angry, rough, and leaves neither truly satisfied. And Dane was willing to go the extra mile it took to portray that. “I want to do whatever I can to keep the story as truthful and honest as I can,” he says. “Obviously, I’m going to wear a prosthetic if I’m working with another actor, but there was an isolated shot where I [was alone] so didn’t have to [wear a prosthetic]. I simply said, ‘If it’s going to be better if I’m not in the prosthetic—if it’s going to be more organic, sincere, or truthful—then I’m willing to do that.’”

The decision to wear a prosthetic was informed by an intimacy coordinator, whose job it is to advocate for the well-being of actors participating in sex scenes. It’s a position that, as of fall 2018, HBO has required on all sets, and one that felt especially necessary on Euphoria, a show so extreme that one actor reportedly quit mid-shoot. Dane found that having the intimacy coordinator on set was helpful, and that it created a safety net for him, particularly while working with Schafer in her first-ever role (who he calls “fantastic” and says he recently texted to tell her how “spectacular” and “fun” she is to watch on screen). But really, Dane doesn’t mind a sex scene (“I’ve always been comfortable with these types of scenes, that’s my final answer,” he tells me when I ask him why he’s so at ease.) He then adds, “Part of my comfort comes from me being vigilant that my scene partner’s comfortable. Because if that person’s not comfortable, it’s going to create some discomfort for me and the sincerity and the intimacy isn’t going to be there.”



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Gwyneth Paltrow Just Opened Up About Aging as a Woman in Hollywood


Gwyneth Paltrow opened up about what it’s like to grow older on a new Goop podcast, The Beauty Closet, explaining that even she hasn’t totally acclimated to the pressure of the spotlight. “I’ve always felt so funny about my looks,” she said, according to People. “I think that it’s very rare to think that you’re a beautiful person, and so, I feel like every other woman—like, I don’t see that when I look in the mirror.”

The fact that Hollywood remains fixated on youth doesn’t help, she added. Despite the fact that Paltrow, 46, still fits well within the industry’s narrow standards of beauty, the actress and entrepreneur shared she’s conscious of aging. “It’s a weird thing to be—I don’t mean in a pejorative way—objectified,” she said. “I think when you come to age…what does it mean to get wrinkles and get closer to menopause, and all these things…. What happens to your identity as a woman if you’re not fuckable and beautiful?” (Of course, that’s not a problem it seems famous men have to deal with.)

But Paltrow didn’t dwell too much on the downsides of growing older, or even on the existential questions the process sometimes poses. Instead, she said, aging has given her more clarity about who she is as a person and the values she considers important.

“You know, as I go on in life and I feel more and more myself and less judgmental about myself, my values become clearer to me,” she said. “I can be in integrity all the time, which was much harder when you’re a younger woman and you’re trying to please and juggling all this stuff.”

Later, she added, “Luckily, what’s happening at the same time in parallel is you just start to like yourself. I think you get to a point where it’s almost like your sort of pulchritude is waning in a way and your inner beauty is, like, really coming out, and so it’s this funny shift that’s happening.”

“It’s like, you feel so good; you know who you are, hopefully; you value the relationships in your life and your work and your contribution to the world,” she said, “But then you’re like, ‘Wow, I have crow’s feet. Damn!'”

Of course, there’s nothing inherently good or bad about crow’s feet, but if their arrival comes with a deeper sense of self, we’re here for it.



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Gabrielle Union Is “Not Here to Serve Hollywood”


L.A.’s Finest, available on Charter Communications’ Spectrum Originals, picks up 15 years after Bad Boys II, with Syd now working as an LAPD detective alongside her partner, Nancy McKenna, played by Jessica Alba. Alba had just given birth to her third child when she was approached about the role, so she was hesitant to take on a demanding network show. Her respect for Union’s hustle, and the network’s responsiveness to Alba’s needs as a mother, changed her mind. “I know how hard it is to be successful in this business,” Alba says. “So many people are talented and gorgeous and the next thing that everybody wants—to be able to push through the noise and find your own path is a feat. I respect that Gabrielle has been in this business for so long and found her way. She produced and helped develop and create this show. That is so cool.”

It was important for Union to have the opportunity to make Syd a fully realized character who has a full backstory, mythology, and mysteries. “I wanted her to have a very full sexual life, like Mary Jane,” Union says, referring to Mary Jane Paul, the role she played on BET’s Being Mary Jane. “I wanted her to have more sexual fluidity than any character I’ve ever had.” In short, L.A.’s Finest is about complex, deep, and sometimes flawed women.

Now that the new season has wrapped, Union’s next career chapter is all about using her platform to lift others up. Yes, her role on America’s Got Talent is to judge others. But she says she gets a thrill from telling contestants yes. “Part of what makes me cry is people’s visceral, emotional reaction to hearing a yes,” she says. “Even if I’m the only yes and the rest are no’s and they’re still not going to go through, you’re just someone saying, ‘I believe in you. I see you. I get what your genius is, even if nobody else does.’”

Similarly, with her production company, I’ll Have Another, her sole focus is giving people an opportunity—and getting them paid. “I think people thought I was just going to make shit that I wanted to put myself in,” she says. “But I’m already on a show. I don’t need all the jobs. I’m straight.”

Instead she’s looking for projects with unique voices that she doesn’t see anywhere else. Specifically, telling the stories from those who’ve been overlooked—the stifled, the silenced, the writers who can’t seem to make it out of the junior ranks in writers room. She became obsessed with being a super champion for others, an endeavor she admits is exhausting but that also, she says, “gives me wings.”

This is where she sees she can make change: by creating the kinds of roles and writing positions she wishes existed in her twenties. “When the script for the pilot of Scandal came out, every black actress wanted it because there was nothing like it,” she says. “It was it. I’m trying to create that same feeling, but a bunch of those. There are so many different creators of color who are creating amazing content, and I want to be a part of that.”

“With my production company, I’m trying to give voice to all the things I wish I’d had sooner,” Union says. “I want to create the scripts I want to do. I want to have wild success. And I want to have epic failures, that’s a part of it too.”

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She’s more interested in creating content that audiences actually want to see than pleasing Hollywood. “I’m not here to serve Hollywood,” she says. “I’m not here to serve the one percent. I’m not here to serve the Talented Ten. At the end of the day, I’m Nickie Union from Omaha, Nebraska.”



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Hollywood Celebrities on Being Child-Free by Choice


Some of us want kids; some of us don’t—and either of those two options are equally valid. Statistically, the most recent numbers show that more and more American women are having kids later in life, if they’re having them at all. In 2016, for example, only 62 babies were born per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44—the lowest the fertility rate has been since we started keeping track. But for women who choose not to have kids, it can feel like they’re fighting a cultural expectation, whether it’s through fending off annoying questions about when they’ll have kids or adopt with their S.O. or by fielding rude comments about how they’re bound to change their mind. But some celebrities who have opted to be child-free are using their platforms to speak out and help shift the cultural mind-set. Here’s what 14 of them have to say about their decision.



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