6/12/2023 0 Comments Parsons universal type client“One of the things it said was ‘Henry is down to the last couple of veils in his dance of the seven veils.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, s. That scene finds Henry luring a male client to his home late one night, and then dancing “seductively” clad mostly in lingerie and veils. “Which made it all the more surprising when Episode 3 came down and I came across the dance scene.” “Ryan said that there’d be a lot of sex, but he also said that my character wasn’t going to be doing a lot of it,” he said. Some of the things Willson did, though, gave Parsons pause. And the twists and turns his life and personality took along the way were not nice or pretty - although some of the horrible things he says are very fun to play.”Īlso Read: What Ryan Murphy and 'Hollywood' Cast Think 2020 'Hollywood' Would Look Like It was to be a part of the business he loved. When he was first starting out, making the trip from the East Coast to Hollywood, it wasn’t from any evil desires. But it was very useful to know those things and to learn about what he was like as a younger man. “And because of that, you don’t get as much of his soft underbelly as you would in a well-researched book like Robert wrote. “In many ways, Henry is one of the pillars of villainy in the series,” he said. He leaned heavily on the 2014 biography of Willson, “The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson,” by TheWrap theater critic Robert Hofler, to flesh out his understanding of the man. “It was this chance to not only play a different type of character, but to explore and educate myself and figure out who this real person was.” “I knew nothing about Henry, and not knowing about him beforehand made it one of the most exciting acting experiences that I’ve had in a really long time,” Parsons said. The character he offered Parsons was a real-life agent known both for shepherding (and re-naming) hunky stars like Rock Hudson, and for having sexual relationships with many of his clients.Īlso Read: 'Hollywood' Fact Check: Was Rock Hudson's Agent a Sexual Predator? “And I kind of looked forward to wandering around and figuring out more precisely, ‘What do you want?'”īut during the shooting of the upcoming, Murphy-produced and Joe Mantello-directed Netflix adaptation of the Broadway play “The Boys in the Band,” Murphy derailed Parsons’ plans for some time off by pitching him on “Hollywood.” The miniseries, which was nominated for a dozen Emmys, blends real movie-business figures from the 1940s with fictional characters to tell an alternative history in which Golden Age studios make huge strides toward tolerance and inclusion. “I kind of had been preparing myself for the vast desert of ‘What’s next?’ that I knew was going to come after ‘The Big Bang Theory’ ended,” he said. When Jim Parsons was first offered the role of talent agent Henry Willson in Ryan Murphy’s limited series “Hollywood,” he was in what he figured would be a slow, contemplative stretch in his career. A version of this story about Jim Parsons and “Hollywood” first appeared in the Emmy Hot List issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.
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