Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThis time last year, Jeremy Pope was getting ready to go to the Tonys.
He was attending theater’s biggest night as a two-time nominee, one for his Broadway debut in “Choir Boy” and another for portraying Eddie Kendricks in “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations.”But he also had a big meeting the day prior with Ryan Murphy, who was casting “Hollywood,” his Netflix series about a reimagined Hollywood in the 1940s, in which everyone was given a shot at stardom no matter their gender, race or sexual orientation.
He wanted Pope to play an aspiring screenwriter named Archie Coleman.“There was a lot happening, my family was coming into town. ‘What will my mom wear?’ It was.
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