{"id":115186,"date":"2024-10-17T12:59:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T05:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115186"},"modified":"2024-10-17T12:59:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T05:59:48","slug":"ryan-murphy-on-keeping-it-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115186","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Murphy on Keeping It Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>[This story contains major spoilers from the seventh episode of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/grotesquerie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_grotesquerie_1\" data-tag=\"grotesquerie\">Grotesquerie<\/a><\/em>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNothing in the marketing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/fx\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fx_1\" data-tag=\"fx\">FX<\/a> horror series <em>Grotesquerie<\/em> tipped viewers off that this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ryan-murphy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ryan-murphy_1\" data-tag=\"ryan-murphy\">Ryan Murphy<\/a> show is not what it seems. And, that was intentional. Because when the seventh episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/niecy-nash\/\" id=\"auto-tag_niecy-nash_1\" data-tag=\"niecy-nash\">Niecy Nash<\/a>-Betts-starring series released, Murphy wanted a collective gasp from viewers. And that\u2019s exactly what he got when the extended hour released on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cThe very fact that none of this got out is a miracle in today\u2019s modern age,\u201d Murphy, who co-created, wrote and directed <em>Grotesquerie<\/em> tells <em>The Hollywood Reporter <\/em>in a chat with his collaborative partner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/john-landgraf\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-landgraf_1\" data-tag=\"john-landgraf\">John Landgraf<\/a>,\u00a0Chairman of FX Content &amp; FX Productions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe twist was so big, and the rollout was so unique, that the pair sat down with <em>THR<\/em> to unpack their master plan: <em>Grotesquerie<\/em> is a drama series, they say, that will continue to unravel twist after twist, leading up to a finale cliffhanger that will propel viewers into a second season. But most importantly, it makes making TV fun again for the pair, who have brought viewers the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/american-horror-story\/\" id=\"auto-tag_american-horror-story_1\" data-tag=\"american-horror-story\">American Horror Story<\/a><\/em>, <em>American Crime Story<\/em>, <em>American Sports Story<\/em> and <em>Feud<\/em> anthologies, as well as <em>Pose<\/em> and new offering <em>Doctor Odyssey<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cIf you get to do something like this with <em>Grotesquerie<\/em> \u2014 which John and I love and has this big schockaroo thing, and the fact that it never got out \u2014 it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, this is fun again. This is show business. This is why we do what we do. That\u2019s why,&#8217;\u201d says Murphy. Landgraf adds, \u201cThe idea that Ryan had, that we went with, is genuinely to surprise the audience. You\u2019re supposed to find it in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhat viewers found when watching <em>Grotesquerie<\/em> was that the entire story thus far has been taking place inside the liminal mind of the starring police detective, Lois Tryon, played by Nash-Betts, who \u2014 in the big twist reveal \u2014 is the one who has been in a coma this entire time, not, as viewers have been led to believe, her husband, played by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/courtney-b-vance\/\" id=\"auto-tag_courtney-b-vance_1\" data-tag=\"courtney-b-vance\">Courtney B. Vance<\/a>. The reveal flips the series on its head, as the characters who viewers have come to know \u2014 played by Micaela Diamond, Raven Goodwin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/lesley-manville\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lesley-manville_1\" data-tag=\"lesley-manville\">Lesley Manville<\/a>, Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Travis Kelce \u2014 are very different in this new reality, giving the cast dual roles to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut Murphy and Landgraf say the twists aren\u2019t over. So buckle up as <em>Grotesquerie<\/em> continues to reveal itself with its final three episodes. Below, the pair dives in with <em>THR<\/em> on the unique release strategy for Murphy\u2019s latest horror hit, which they say taps into the current climate of existential crisis (\u201cI really wanted all of it to air before the election,\u201d says Murphy), and keeping this big secret as they talk about all things from Kelce to pitching Taylor Swift and why, at this point in his career, Murphy is only looking for a very big challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>So, the release strategy for <em>Grotesquerie<\/em> has been a bit unusual. Two episodes have dropped per week with this seventh episode and the finale, airing on Halloween Eve, getting their own nights. At this point, John, do you give Ryan the runway he needs with episode length and season structure? What was the rollout strategy thinking here?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>JOHN LANDGRAF\u00a0<\/strong>We all talked about it. We show this to our partners at Hulu, who understand the platform and audience and who also do the on-platform promotion. But ultimately, we tend to group things together the way the storyteller wants them to be experienced, and that\u2019s exactly what happened here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWe wanted to get to this twist sooner. That\u2019s why it\u2019s in week four, which is really three weeks to the day after premiere. Then Ryan wanted to do episodes eight and nine together, and then 10 [the finale] on its own. When you see the episodes, you will understand. As a follow-up to episode seven, episodes eight and nine together really reset the show. The penultimate episode and the finale each have twists in them also that reset the show in their own way. Ryan, I think you wanted to get to the twist in episode nine one week after this seventh episode, and then the finale really sets the template for the whole series. So, it\u2019s like a series of reveals that you\u2019re going through now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>RYAN MURPHY <\/strong>Yes, there\u2019s a big reveal here in episode seven \u2014 and then there\u2019s another one in eight and nine and 10 [the finale]. In the TV landscape, I\u2019ve had all types of rollouts. You can do a binge. You can do one week at a time. Based on what I can find out internally about who is watching and how they\u2019re watching, people like the idea of consuming. If there are cliffhangers involved: <em>What\u2019s the next one? What\u2019s the next one<\/em>? So in the storytelling, we were thinking that way as we were breaking the episodes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Ryan, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/ryan-murphy-monsters-menendez-reaction-thrilled-1236019251\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/ryan-murphy-monsters-menendez-reaction-thrilled-1236019251\/\">when I last spoke to you<\/a> and you were describing all of the shows you launched this fall, you summed up <em>Grotesquerie<\/em> as \u201ca horror story borne out of my brain.\u201d Now that we know the big twist, what inspired you to bring this story to the screen?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MURPHY<\/strong> And by that I didn\u2019t mean an <em>American Horror Story<\/em>, I just meant a horror story. I have never really done anything like this before. I haven\u2019t ever written a season of television just on my own or for fun, just to do it, right? So I was interested in writing about something that I was feeling, which is this sort of existential crisis of: <em>Is this all happening? Why do I feel every day that I\u2019m in sort of a nightmare we can\u2019t wake up from?<strong> <\/strong><\/em>And even more than that, as you\u2019ll see, that love is really the only thing that gets us through. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI feel ultimately that we live in a very cynical time, but that this reveal \u2014 and what happens after it \u2014 is really about people fighting for love and connection, which I certainly do every day. So I went to my collaborators, Jon Robin Baitz and Joe Baken, and we talked about it and I wrote it. Then when I finished it, I think I had nine of the 10 episodes completed and I showed John [Landgraf] nine scripts. And he said, \u201cOh wow, you\u2019ve never really done this before.\u201d When he got to episodes three or four, he called me and said he really liked them. And I said, \u201cOh, you haven\u2019t gotten to The Thing.\u201d I always called episode seven, \u201cThe Thing.\u201d I said, \u201cKeep reading.\u201d Then he called and said, \u201cWow, ok.\u201d And then we decided to make it. Then we started casting it and it all happened relatively quickly, but there was also this urgency to it. It just was about <em>something<\/em>. It was really about where we\u2019re living now and in the run-up to it, I really wanted all of it to air before the election. I thought that was also an interesting part of it. There\u2019s something very of-the-moment about it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:3000px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((2000\/3000)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Grtsq_101_3457r.jpg?w=3000\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Niecy Nash-Betts as Lois Tryon with Courtney B. Vance as Marshall Tryon, the latter who viewers had believed was in a coma up until episode seven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Prashant Gupta\/FX<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Why not make this a season of <em>American Horror Story<\/em> starring Niecy Nash \u2013 did you ever consider putting <em>Grotesquerie<\/em> under the <em>AHS<\/em> umbrella?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MURPHY<\/strong> Never, never. It was never that. It\u2019s so different than that. John and I have talked about that. Other people and I have talked about that. <em>AHS<\/em> is fun, it\u2019s straight-forward, it announces what it is instantly. This is much more experimental independent filmmaking the way we made it. It was very different. Many filmmakers have done different types of horror things. I think you can do different types of horror things, and this has never been that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>LANDGRAF<\/strong> There\u2019s always a malevolent entity in <em>American Horror Story<\/em>, and the protagonists always end up dying, right? That\u2019s the genius of the format \u2014 that you can kill off most or all of your cast every year, and it just reboots. That\u2019s one of the reasons it was hard to do horror within the television landscape until Ryan came up with that idea. This one is different. As you\u2019ve seen, no one has actually died and we\u2019re eight episodes in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>If we can trust that, technically! Is this a limited series, or do you want to do more seasons?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>LANDGRAF<\/strong> We\u2019re definitely considering doing more because, as you\u2019ll see at the end, it\u2019s like a series of Russian nesting dolls. You just saw the doll within the doll. Then there are more dolls inside these dolls. And you won\u2019t even have a sense of what the base reality of it is, for sure, until you get to the finale. But then there\u2019s a whole story that takes place in that reality which, again, is very of our reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhat Ryan showed us all [so far] was a sort of nightmare, fever dream, surreal liminal version of our reality. But it\u2019s not that far off emotionally. It captures a lot of what I feel these days. I\u2019d love to wake up from a coma and realize, \u201cOh, it was all a dream.\u201d But I don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to happen any time soon. Ultimately there is a depiction of the world we live in today that you\u2019re going to get to, a dissection of what\u2019s really going on and why it\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Let\u2019s talk about this twist reveal. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/grotesquerie-raven-goodwin-merritt-1236030243\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/grotesquerie-raven-goodwin-merritt-1236030243\/\">Some castmembers told <em>THR<\/em><\/a> they don\u2019t all know how the season ends. Did you black out scripts and, why was that important to hold back from the actors?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MURPHY<\/strong> Well, it was conceived as a drama series. \u00a0That\u2019s what it is. So it\u2019s a multi-year approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>LANDGRAF<\/strong> Yep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MURPHY<\/strong> It was an interesting thing how I pitched it, and with who and when. I met with Niecy in November at the Chateau Marmont and we talked about it. But I hadn\u2019t really done The Thing. After John read it and loved it and greenlit it, I sent the scripts to her in January. She had read everything through nine, so she knew what the twist was and it was a very fun experience. She was texting me as she was reading it going, \u201cWait, what?\u201d I didn\u2019t really tell her what it was about, I just said, \u201cRead it, I want you to do it.\u201d Because, we\u2019ve worked together for 25 years. All of the actors, I have various different relationships with, and for the most part, I\u2019ve worked with them for a long time. Courtney [B. Vance] and I had a conversations about what he\u2019s playing and how when [Niecy] wakes up from the coma, he takes over for a while. Lesley Manville, I\u2019ve always wanted to work with. She knew going in that there was a duality. All of the actors knew there was a duality.<strong> <\/strong>Some of them knew a lot more than others, based on what they needed to know. It was a fun thing for me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>LANDGRAF<\/strong> Your question also made me realize something. The idea that Ryan had, that we went with, is genuinely to surprise the audience. Genuinely, to not tell them what they\u2019re watching and to figure it out as time goes on. Nothing in the marketing or the publicity that we did gave away the show. You\u2019re supposed to find it in real time. And I think part of the reason why maybe some people are wondering if it\u2019s like an <em>American Horror Story<\/em> is because they don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s a closed end, one-off story yet. And I can tell you, you\u2019ll know by the time you get to the end that this is a series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>Grotesquerie<\/em> is a series with the current cast?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>LANDGRAF<\/strong> It\u2019s not an <em>American Horror Story.<\/em> It\u2019s a series about these characters, and it<strong> <\/strong>has a big, big, amazing cliffhanger at the end of the first season that propels you into a second season. So yeah, we didn\u2019t want to tell people this is what to expect. Ryan and I are always restless. One of the things I\u2019ve always admired about him is that he gets bored, and wants to do something new. He\u2019s taken television in a new direction so many times that\u2019s very fresh. They did <em>Nip\/Tuck<\/em> before I even got to FX, and one of the reasons I came is because loved it so much and thought it was so original. So the whole notion here was, \u201cLet\u2019s genuinely drop this into the world and let people figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:3000px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((2000\/3000)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Grtsq_105_0268r.jpg?w=3000\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Nash-Betts as Lois Tryon with Micaela Diamond as Sister Megan, before the big reveal. (Diamond now plays the new police chief, who stepped into Lois\u2019 job amid her coma.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Prashant Gupta\/FX<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Was the show initially called \u201cSnow Globe\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MURPHY<\/strong> No, the title \u201cSnow Globe\u201d was a fake name. There are various people who had fake names. It had NDAs. You can see the very fact that none of this got out is a miracle in today\u2019s modern age. Every day since we premiered I would wake up to say, \u201cDid somebody in an uncool way reveal the twist?\u201d But I think everybody who made it loved it, from the cast and crew down. It\u2019s very hard to keep secrets in today\u2019s media landscape. And it\u2019s also why we decided not to show too many episodes in advance. We showed one or two in the beginning to some press so Niecy could do the opening promotion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut it\u2019s a real indication of my relationship with John. We\u2019ve worked together 21 years and we\u2019ve done things like this \u2014 I call them The Big Swings. Like with <em>Horror Story<\/em>, where I told him that at the end of the season, we burn the sets down and have all new actors. A lesser person would have said, \u201cWait, what. We need to talk about this.\u201d And John said, \u201cOK, let\u2019s do that.\u201d (<em>Laughs<\/em>) It was exciting. It was bold. And it was like, \u201cOk, that scares me a little bit.\u201d But we always say that to each other \u2014 that if it scares us, we should do it. We did the same thing with O.J. [Simpson, for <em>American Crime Story<\/em>]. That was not an easy thing to get made, back in the day. People take it for granted now, but that type of storytelling was not [easy]. And that\u2019s exactly how it felt when we were working on this. This felt new and fresh, and I really love that there\u2019s a big shockaroonie in there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>John, how much of a risk did making this show feel like for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>LANDGRAF<\/strong> It always does but, who is going to make a show about the ballroom community in New York [with <em>Pose<\/em>] and say, \u201cand I don\u2019t want to cast it with anybody but people who actually lived this experience. I\u2019m gonna have an open casting call and I\u2019m gonna go find a cast of stars. So let\u2019s just make a TV show knowing going in that they\u2019re all going to be faces you\u2019ve never seen before, because they\u2019ve never had the opportunity to work.\u201d Ryan just pulls it off, over and over. I still remember the moment when he brought in the cast of <em>Pose<\/em>, all of whom were unknown; he found them all and they were all amazing. You just knew instantaneously you had a television show. But until then, no one had ever done that before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>With this <em>Grotesquerie<\/em> episode, you also have someone not necessarily known as an actor who is revealing himself as one in NFL star Travis Kelce. Not only has he had this key role so far, now he also has a dual role. How did you know he was right for this part?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MURPHY<\/strong> The fun thing for me now is that people can go back and rewatch it from the beginning, and there are so many Easter eggs in <em>Grotesquerie<\/em>. Literally dozens of them. If you even look at the opening shot of the first episode, that\u2019s a hospital curtain on fire. We took great care with those things, like all the curtains in that episode \u2014 that\u2019s her surrounded in the coma. There are little things throughout. Another scene in episode one, Lesley Manville is eating a fruit in various forms of close ups. People got that wrong. They said it was strawberries. It\u2019s not. It\u2019s cherries, which were meant to be a metaphor for blood clots. There\u2019s all of these things. So, the cast was in it from the get-go. They all knew what this was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhen I hired Travis, I said, \u201cYou are playing dual parts here. You\u2019re playing kind of a guardian angel.\u201d When you see him, he\u2019s lit like he\u2019s God. It makes no sense that there are acres of flowers in that hospital set that we brought in and designed [in his first scene with Nash-Betts]. I lit him and dressed him like that. But then when he did the turn and played the character with the mullet who worked at Cinnabon [in this episode], he was really involved in, \u201cOk, I want my mullet to be here and I want to wear this.\u201d Because Travis is funny and it\u2019s just kind of great. It was kind of a fascinating thing to work with all of these actors on that. I think it\u2019s the reason why actors like playing twins, because they can do two things. They all couldn\u2019t wait to play the second character. Because they were either very different, or the circumstances were the same but they were still very different.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Are you trying to get Taylor Swift for season two? Have you pitched her anything?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MURPHY<\/strong> I\u2019ve talked to Taylor\u2019s people about various things through the years, and all I will say is that I think she\u2019s great and if she ever has time to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat. I think she\u2019s one of the greats. I was so shy talking to Travis about her. But he\u2019s very sweet about it and respectful. They are a pop-culture phenomenon. It\u2019s a very interesting dynamic, the way they\u2019ve captured the imagination of the world. But I always knew Travis could do it. I have this saying: A star is a star is a star. I just knew he could do it. He rolls up his sleeves and he says, \u201cOk, let\u2019s do this.\u201d There\u2019s that last scene of [Kelce and Nash-Betts] in episode three that I directed where they go in the red getaway car \u2014 that\u2019s a little Taylor Swift nod for you there! \u2014 and they drive off to this black limbic space, which makes absolutely no sense. But it does make sense now, because you know [Lois] is in a coma.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:3000px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((1957\/3000)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Grtsq_107_1347r.jpg?w=3000\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"1957\" width=\"3000\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Travis Kelce, as Ed Lachlan, and Raven Goodwin, as Lois\u2019 daughter Merritt, before the twist reveal in episode seven. (In the new reality, Lois\u2019 now-successful daughter reveals to her father, played by Courtney B. Vance, that Ed and Lois have been having an affair).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Prashant Gupta\/FX<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>How much were you trying to tip off viewers with these hints? What kind of balance did you find in the editing of these episodes?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MURPHY<\/strong>\u00a0I worked really hard with all of our people, with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/grotesquerie-episode-7-tease-max-winkler-1236030658\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/grotesquerie-episode-7-tease-max-winkler-1236030658\/\">Max Winkler <\/a>and Alexis Martin Woodall, our showrunners. We wrote it, and then I hired them to give it visual life. I wanted younger collaborators. We talked a lot about: How much do we reveal and when? And there were things in the scripts that I wanted shot that then we saw them, we were like, \u201cThat\u2019s too much<strong>.\u201d<\/strong> I wanted people to feel a sense of unease and I wanted them to have a sense of like, \u201cWait, what\u2019s going on?\u201d And it couldn\u2019t be too obvious or overt. It had to have a reality to it. And so I worked hard on that with them, and I did cut things that we shot where I thought it was going to be too obvious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Ryan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/ryan-murphy-monsters-menendez-reaction-thrilled-1236019251\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/ryan-murphy-monsters-menendez-reaction-thrilled-1236019251\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">we recently spoke <\/a>about how many shows you have out in the world right now. I wanted to ask you about moving back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/disney-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disney-2_1\" data-tag=\"disney-2\">Disney<\/a> and what you learned your time at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix_1\" data-tag=\"netflix\">Netflix<\/a>. Is there anything you would have done differently?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MURPHY<\/strong> The truth is I never left, really. My deal is a really interesting deal, because I kept all the shows that I had with John [Landgraf] and Dana [Walden]. And then I went on and did wonderful things at Netflix as well, which I really wanted to do as an artist and as a business person, and I was allowed to do that. I continue to work on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/monsters\/\" id=\"auto-tag_monsters_1\" data-tag=\"monsters\">Monsters<\/a><\/em> [with Netflix], which I\u2019m very passionate about. I get that what I\u2019m doing is very unusual, but with <em>Grotesquerie<\/em> \u2014 and with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/fx-the-beauty-series-ryan-murphy-evan-peters-1236017999\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/fx-the-beauty-series-ryan-murphy-evan-peters-1236017999\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Beauty<\/a><\/em>, which is the next show I\u2019m doing with John \u2014 we talked a lot about getting the band back together, although the band would literally go get coffee and never broke up. At this point in my career, I only want to do things that are hard. <em>Grotesquerie<\/em> was very hard to make. And <em>The Beauty<\/em> is very hard to make. <em>Grotesquerie<\/em> is about a deeply American experience and <em>The Beauty <\/em>is more about an international thing, a feeling. But they\u2019re both great and it was fun to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>LANDGRAF<\/strong> I remember when Ryan made his deal with Netflix, and it was so emotional because we had worked together so long \u2014 me, Ryan and Dana, all of us. He came over and we had this very emotional thing, where I told him how proud I was of him and wished him well and said how much I would miss him. Then the next day, we kept working and we did more the next year than we did the prior year (<em>laughs<\/em>). It was very weird.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MURPHY<\/strong> I know it\u2019s a very unusual situation, my life and what I do. But everyone has been so kind and cool. It\u2019s such a privilege to do what we are able to do, and I think we have all felt that in the last two years with the business model changing and the strikes. If you get to do something like this with <em>Grotesquerie<\/em> \u2014 which John and I love and has this big shockaroo thing, and the fact that it never got out \u2014 it\u2019s like, \u201cOh, this is fun again. This is show business. This is why we do what we do. That\u2019s why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Well, now viewers will never know what to expect from your next shows. And this conversation is making me think those <em>Doctor Odyssey<\/em> conspiracy theories might be true\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>MURPHY<\/strong> No comment on that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>Grotesquerie<\/em> releases episodes eight and nine next Wednesday at 10 p.m. on FX (streaming next day on Hulu), followed by its finale on Oct. 30. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/grotesquerie-huge-twist-episode-7-ryan-murphy-1236033876\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This story contains major spoilers from the seventh episode of Grotesquerie.] Nothing in the marketing for FX horror series Grotesquerie tipped viewers off that this Ryan Murphy show is not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115186\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}