Leslie Jordan, the undisputed breakout star of Instagram during COVID-19 lockdown, just scored his next job: a new starring role from Ryan Murphy.
Jordan and Murphy have collaborated before when the actor landed a role in American Horror Story. With Jordan’s star on the rise, Murphy teased their next collaboration on May 3.
“So yes it’s TRUE I am writing a project for national treasures Leslie Jordan and Dylan McDermott to star in together,” Murphy wrote on Instagram. “Should it be a romance? A buddy comedy? A heist movie? All I know is Leslie is going to be fabulously wealthy in it, and Dylan will have a backstory as a former masseur.”
That sounds good enough for us. McDermott currently stars on the Murphy-produced Netflix series Hollywood as a gas station owner-cum-pimp and escort. Jordan, an openly gay man, has long proven himself one of Hollywood’s most reliable performers. In 2006, he picked up an Emmy Award for a guest spot on Will & Grace.
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dhmonarch89
so Dylan is basically playing Scotty Bowers- I guess since he died, Murphy doesn’t have to pay him for the rights to his story.
jayceecook
You don’t have to pay anybody for the rights to their public life to tell a story. It is common curtsey to inform the person or persons involved but that’s about it. Now if you wanted to adapt a book they wrote or something that isn’t public domain then yes, you would need to acquire the rights.
woodroad34
Which leads to the question of Olivia Dehavilland getting all hot and bothered and suing Ryan for his depiction of her in “Feud”; so much so, that Ryan “replaced” her as a presenter at the 1948 Oscars in his current “Hollywood”
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jayceecook
@woodroad34 There is nothing to question. Both the California Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court did not think intervention was warranted. End of. While the US SC didn’t comment the Cali one did.
They said, “”Publishing a fictitious work about a real person cannot mean the author, by virtue of writing fiction, has acted with actual malice. Recognizing this, in cases where the claimed highly offensive or defamatory aspect of the portrayal is implied, courts have required plaintiffs to show that the defendant ‘intended to convey the defamatory impression.’ De Havilland must demonstrate that FX either deliberately cast her statements in an equivocal fashion in the hope of insinuating a defamatory import to the reader, or that it knew or acted in reckless disregard of whether its words would be interpreted by the average reader as defamatory statements of fact.”
jayceecook
This sounds like it could be awesome. LJ loves him some DM. His Instagram story about him being LJ favorite straight boy is hilarious. No doubt that’s what gave RM the idea.
missvamp
i adore leslie jordan. his bday message to cloris leachman- priceless. i will cry so hard when the 2 of them pass away!
woodroad34
Lesley Jordan is just an imp. I just watch “Sordid Lives” again recently.
Bellamy
YES!!!! YES!!!!! YES!!!!!!