First Look at Ryan Murphy's Ultra-Queer Reimagining of Hollywood

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First Look at Ryan Murphy's Ultra-Queer Reimagining of Hollywood

Ryan Murphy's 'Hollywood' Is Glitz, Glam, and Gay

Patti LuPone as Avis Amberg, Dylan McDermott as Ernie, Holland Taylor as Ellen Kincaid, and Samara Weaving as Claire Wood

The latest project from multihyphenate TV and film creator Ryan Murphy is an aspirational story of a bygone Hollywood that flips the script on the straight white male studio stronghold that was considered its Golden Age and instead delivers a queer, intersectional world.

The seven-episode limited series Hollywood, for which Janet Mock is a writer, producer, and director, stars Broadway actor Jeremy Pope as an aspiring writer with a fresh story to tell, Darren Criss as an up-and-coming director, David Corensweet (The Politician) as the new hunk in town, Laura Harrier as a rising star of an actress, and Patti LuPone as a studio bigwig who's about to change the landscape.

At the center of the story that pays homage to Rock Hudson, Anna May Wong, and Hattie McDaniel is the gas station run by Dylan McDermott's Ernie, where queer people and outsiders come to fill their tanks (as it were).

Jim Parsons, Joe Mantello, Holland Taylor, Samara Weaving, Mira Sorvino, and Michelle Krusiec costar in the series, which drops on Netflix May 1.

Samara Weaving as Claire Wood and Laura Harrier Camille Washington

Samara Weaving as Claire Wood and Laura Harrier as Camille Washington

Jim Parsons as Henry Willson

Holland Taylor as Eleanor Kincaid and David Corensweet as Jack Castello

Patti LuPone Avis Amberg

David Corensweet as Jack Castello and Patti LuPone as Avis Amberg

Jake Picking as Rock Hudson and Jeremy Pope as Archie Coleman

Michelle Krusiec as Anna May Wong and Laura Harrier as Camille Washington

David Corensweet as Jack Castello and Dylan McDermott as Ernie

Jeremy Pope as Archie Coleman and Darren Criss as Raymond Ansley

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Tracy E. Gilchrist

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP of Editorial and Special Projects at equalpride. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.

First Look at Ryan Murphy's Ultra-Queer Reimagining of Hollywood