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You Won't Believe Who Darren Criss Says He Based His ‘Hollywood’ Character On! · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Derived from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, hottest show on Screaming
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  Speaker 1: Now it's Ryan Murphy's new miniseries Hollywood, which offers an
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  Speaker 1: alternate version of history with the golden era of the
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  Speaker 1: movie industry in the nineteen forties could have been if
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  Speaker 1: racism and homophobia hadn't been roadblocks. There's so many talented careers.
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  Speaker 1: Darren Chris, who's worked with Ryan since Glee, stars as
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  Speaker 1: this aspiring director Raymond Ainslie. Many people have been wondering
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  Speaker 1: who he based the fictional character on. Darren says, none
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  Speaker 1: other than the actual man running the show, Ryan Murphy,
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  Speaker 1: though nobody realized it until after they shot the show,
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  Speaker 1: Darren tells Deadline. Subconsciously, there's a whole bunch of Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Murphy and Raymond Ansley. Here is a character who uses
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  Speaker 1: the camera as a form of social justice for changing
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  Speaker 1: the culture. He's basically wanted to create art, but doing
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  Speaker 1: it for a higher calling. There's a much higher social
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  Speaker 1: justice drive behind things he does, which is exactly what
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  Speaker 1: Ryan has done his whole career. Hollywood's on Netflix, that's
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  Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood.