Friday, September 06, 2019

Good Morning, Gratuitous Jeremy Pope

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I'm sure one of you theater fans can tell me more about the actor Jeremy Pope, who made a splash I guess on stage with the one-two punch of Choir Boy and Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations -- enough of a splash anyway that he just landed a big role in one of Ryan Murphy's forthcoming seeming dozens of Netflix series that've been announced this week. 

Specifically Pope will star in Hollywood, which Murphy calls "a love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown" -- he'll be playing a "gay, aspiring writer in writer in 1940s Hollywood" where he'll supposedly come face to face not only with screen legends like Rock Hudson and Spencer Tracy, but also as an actor he'll be face to face with a slew of Ryan Murphy Regulars in those roles, people like Darren Criss and Patti Lupone and Dylan McDermott and that hot boy from the trailer for The Politician that we already posted about. (His name is David Corenswet and honestly I could see him playing Rock Hudson.)

But we're getting distracted! We're like Ryan Murphy in that way. We're here for Jeremy Pope right now. Hollywood will mark only his second screen role, after playing a character called "Jerk" in last year's basically ignored horror flick The Ranger (I only recognize it because it had a terrific poster). Did anybody see that? I doubt a character named "Jerk" had a lot of substance, so Hollywood will mark our true introduction to Mr. Pope I guess. Well that plus the couple dozen photos I've gathered up this morning, which you can see after the jump...















5 comments:

par3182 said...

lordy, now that's a pope i'd genuflect before...

Dame James said...

This is the third time I've looked at this page in the past hour. I'm a Jeremy Pope fan now.

verbocity said...

Were there any African American writers (or anything besides janitors and commissary workers) in Golden Age Hollywood?

Jason Adams said...

I don't know enough to say exactly but I'm sure there were AAs who tried to be successful screenwriters, verbocity. And it's clearly an untold story. And if race isn't the dominant focus of the show I don't always require historical accuracy with every story, anyway. Maybe it'll be a wish-fulfillment fantasy kind of thing.

Anonymous said...

Saw him in both Choir Boy and Ain't Too Proud (two Tony nominations in one season). I remember thinking this guy is really talented and should be a big star some day. Last time I felt that was when I saw Timmy C in Prodigal Son.