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A conversation with Ryan Murphy :happy face 
Vulture wrote:
Ryan Murphy, Wendy Williams, Mindhunter, The Bold Type, and More Join Vulture Festival Lineup

May 1, 2018

SUNDAY, MAY 20

8 p.m. to 9 p.m.: RYAN MURPHY: IN CONVERSATION

Four-time Emmy-winning super-producer Ryan Murphy makes his Vulture Festival debut in a wide-ranging conversation with New York and Vulture Hollywood editor Stacey Wilson Hunt about his juggernaut TV career — he recently inked a history-making $300 million deal with Netflix — his provocative 2018 Emmy-contending limited series The Assassination of Gianni Versace and his Half Foundation initiative, which offers jobs, mentorships, and scholarships to women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ community. Murphy will also offer fans an exclusive look inside his groundbreaking forthcoming dance-musical drama Pose — set against New York’s 1980’s ballroom culture, it boasts the largest cast of transgender series regulars of any scripted series ever produced— which premieres June 3 on FX. Milk Studios (450 West 15th Street). Tickets $25 (includes complimentary access to the Vulture Lounge following the event).

Source:  http://www.vulture.com/2018/05/vulture-festival-2018-line-up-announced.html










Some pics of Jon Jon at the East West Players event where Jon Jon was honored.  :happy face  With his own daughter (Isa Briones) and his Versace son, Carlin James.  
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@carlinjames: Also, from last night’s EWP Gala. It was so, so good to reunite with one half of my @ACSFX fam. Definitely missing the other half
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Inspiring words from Jon Jon.  (Side note:  I was listening to NPR in the car, and I listened to an interview with author Alex Wagner about her book, Futureface, and I thought of Darren.  Alex is mixed race:  Irish on her father's side and Burmese on her mother's side.   The phrase, "future face" refers to a cover of Time Magazine, about the face of the future America as a multi-cultural society.)
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I can't seem to copy this video, but I wanted to include the message by Twin Stalk Theatre about Jon Jon Briones.
twinstalktheatre: @jonjonbriones getting a visionary award at #ewpgala52 This guy is Amazing! An immigrant. A new American. A Broadway star! And the nicest guy backstage. Thank you! @eastwestplayers#twinstalktheatre

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angryasianman: The incredible Jon Jon Briones accepts the Visionary Award from East West Players. #ewpgala








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eastwestplayers: The #CunananFamily of FX’s AMERICAN CRIME STORY: THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE make a red carpet appearance with tonight’s EWP Visionary Award Honoree Jon Jon Briones, Ovation Award winner Isa Briones, and Carlin James. #ewpgala52#eastwestplayers







It's too bad Darren wasn't able to attend this event honoring Jon Jon Briones, recipient of the East West Players' Visionary Award.  The East West Players "is the nation's longest-running professional theater of color and the largest producing organization of Asian American artistic work."  One of their goals is to support and provide opportunities to Asian-American artists, and to bring visibility to projects about Asian-American experiences.  They are very well-respected. One of the projects that East West Players is doing this season in partnership with the Ahmanson Theatre is David Henry Hwang's Soft Power, starring Conrad Ricamora (who coincidentally sort of looks like Andrew Cunanan :amused ).  
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pacificrimvideo: The #cunananfamily of @ahsfx back together sans #andrewcunanan at the @eastwestplayers 52nd Visionary Awards honoring @jonjonbriones








With Jon Jon's family.  :happy face
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Megan Johnson Briones and actors Isa Briones, Jon Jon Briones and Teo Briones arrive at the East West Players “The Company We Keep” 52nd Anniversary Visionary Awards Fundraiser Dinner and Silent Auction at the Hilton Universal City on April 30, 2018 in Universal City, California.






With Yong Chavez.  :happy face
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@yongchavezLA: @JonJonBriones So proud of you, kapatid!







Nice article featuring Cody Fern in the Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times wrote:
Cody Fern plays the most involving victim in 'The Assassination of Gianni Versace'

May 01, 2018

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Cody Fern, by most measures, was the least recognizable name attached to Ryan Murphy’s “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

The 30-year-old Australian actor had few credits to his name and prior to scooping up the role, had gone to London to work on a feature film that he was writing and directing as a means of taking control of his career.

“I really did not want to play the boy next door … it’s just not me,” Fern said when he stopped by the L.A. Times video studio this week.
Then came the audition that would put him in the company of Darren Criss, Edgar Ramirez, Penelope Cruz and Ricky Martin in a saga that explored the 1997 murder of the famed fashion designer — as well as the less-publicized murders that came before him — by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. For followers of the show, Fern would emerge with a noteworthy performance with his portrayal of little-known David Madson, Cunanan’s good friend who ultimately became one of his murder victims.

In keeping with the show’s reversed timeline narrative, viewers are introduced to Fern’s David with his harrowing last encounters with Cunanan, as explored in Episode 4, titled “House by the Lake.”

The episode opens with Madson bearing witness to the brutal murder of Jeff Trail, a friend Madson shared with Cunanan. As the episode progresses, Madson is essentially forced into fleeing the scene with Cunanan. At one point, they end up at a roadside bar and there’s a moment where Madson could try to escape from a bathroom window. But he doesn’t. And, ultimately, he ends up as Cunanan’s next victim. Much of the timeline is a theorization of events given that Madson and Cunanan did not live to tell the story.

“There is this element of stitching together what has happened in this time — that this man is murdered in [Madson’s] apartment and he’s seemingly involved in the police’s mind and then he ends up dead,” Fern said. “The core question, for me [as] David in this series, is ‘Why doesn’t he run when he smashes the window? Why doesn’t he go?’ … I will say this much: There is, throughout 'House by the Lake,’ the feeling of David looking back and assessing his life and all of the choices that he’s made, all of the hiding that he’s done, all of the repression he’s been through. … I think he’s starting to become aware of the fact that he’s spent a great deal of his life in hiding. Not being who he truly is. In that moment, David understands that even if he runs from this thing, where is he going to go?”


Source:  http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-en-cody-fern-versace-emmys-20180501-story.html




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Tom Rob Smith is an Executive Producer and lead writer for ACS Versace.

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[size=13]Sthanlee B Mirador is a Fil-Am Hollywood Celebrity Photographer [/size]


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USA Today wrote:
Q&A: Matt Bomer on directing 'Versace,' 'Boys in the Band' and a 'White Collar' reunion

March 13, 2018



Actor Matt Bomer is central to Wednesday’s penultimate episode of FX’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (10 ET/PT), but viewers won’t see him. He’s playing a new role: director.

Bomer (White Collar, The Normal Heart), 40, spoke to USA TODAY about his first-time gig directing the episode, “Creator/Destroyer,” which looks at designer Versace and his killer, Andrew Cunanan, as pre-teens; working with his mega-producer friend Ryan Murphy; and the chances for a revival of his USA hit, White Collar.

Question: How did this first-time directing assignment come about?

Bomer: I’d worked with Ryan several times. He knew I always would come into the set with reams of text work and research and he said, ‘You should direct.’ I thought it might be on American Horror Story, but he said Versace. I promptly passed out. When I came to, I said, 'Yes.’ This was a four-month labor of love for me. I read over 3,000 pages of books. I met with director friends to get insight. I did an intensive with the DGA (Directors Guild of America). I shadowed two other directors of the show. So by the time I got on set, I was at least able to fake it till I made it.

Q: How did you approach Cunanan in this episode, which portrays a future killer and a future fashion icon as youths?

Bomer: “We’re all responsible for the choices we make, but it was a big question of this episode: Can we empathize with a monster when we see the circumstances of his life and the hand he was dealt?  What makes one person a creator and one a killer?

Source:  https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2018/03/13/matt-bomer-talks-directing-versace-boys-band-white-collar-memories/412943002/









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This appears to be a call sheet for ACS Versace FINALE airing next week in the U.S., Canada, and Latinoamerica.

gabyfresquez:   That time I shared a call sheet with #RickyMartin …all my 90s dreams cometh true #actorslife

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Pics for Episode 9
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acsversace-news:
Director Matt Bomer, facing camera, talks to cast and crew, including actor Darren Criss, right, on the set of ‘The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.’ ( Source) | 13 March 2018










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Hi Jeremy,

Yes, that's possible.  And I really do appreciate the first part of what he said, where he stated that because he passes as white, that he will not encounter the same obstacles that people of color will face in the entertainment industry.    I feel he's being respectful of the experiences that people of color face, that he's being respectful by recognizing that there will be unique obstacles and grief that people of color unfortunately, will have to live through, and overcome, that he--as a person who passes as white--fortunately will not. 

It was the choice of words/the phrasing of the later part of the quote that has surprised me, but I feel like I am just repeating myself, at this point. :happy face










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I'm not sure how much violence is in this video (I closed my eyes at one part).

The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story | Season 2: World Premiere | FX
Not a lot of new bits here but it’s a new compilation from FX.

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@ACSFX His best attributes brought out the worst in him. #ACSVersace @DarrenCriss

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I'm really looking forward to this episode. 
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@FilAmCreative #FilipinoAmericans @JonJonBriones, @CarlinJames and @TheIsaBriones will be joining @DarrenCriss & the cast of @FXNetworks’ @ACSFX (THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY) on a new episode this #Wednesday, #March14th at 10pm. Photos by @Sthanlee. #ACSVersace









From dcriss-archive:

Mason Alexander Park.  :happy face

Via Mason Alexander Park’s Instagram Story (March 12, 2018)

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acsversace-news:
Antena 3 Spanish trailer for the premiere of The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story | 11 March 2018









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Yea!  Looking forward to seeing all the Filipino-American talent in this week's episode!  I need to remind my husband's Filipino co-worker to make sure she watches.
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Here is more from the article:
FilAm Creative wrote:
Jon Jon Briones, Carlin James, Isa Briones, Zedrick Restauro Join Darren Criss in FX’s ‘The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,’ March 14

March 12, 2018

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Filipino American actors Jon Jon Briones, Carlin James, Isa Briones and Zedrick Restauro join fellow FilAm Darren Criss in a new episode of FX’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story this Wednesday, March 14 at 10:00pm.

Jon Jon Briones (Miss Saigon) will play Andrew’s father, ‘Modesto Cunanan’ while Carlin James (How to Get Away with Murder, This Is Us, Dear White People) will play Andrew’s brother, ‘Christopher’ and Isa Briones (who was just announced today to play ‘Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds’ in the first national tour of Hamilton) will play his sister, ‘Elena.’  They will also appear in next week’s episode on March 21.

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Filipinos seem to praise their own whenever anyone hits mainstream celebrity status, but they did not with Cunanan.  Many never spoke his name at the office water cooler gossip while others watched the televised manhunt, in secret.  It’s as if we all felt a great disturbance…

When it was announced that the Andrew Cunanan story will be the 2018 series focus for American Crime Story, I was hesitant to even promote it. But, it was until a colleague friend mentioned to me that the show “tells struggles of a Fil-Am family seldom seen on TV.”

She’s right.

Cunanan developed a reputation as a prolific liar given to telling fantastic tales about his family and personal life.  He was also adept at changing his appearance according to what he felt was most attractive at a given moment.  When he was 19, his father deserted his family to avoid arrest for embezzlement. That same year, his mother learned that Cunanan was gay.  During an ensuing argument, he threw her against a wall, dislocating her shoulder.  Later examination of his behavior from reports indicate that he may have suffered from antisocial personality disorder, a personality disorder characterized by an abnormal lack of empathy (earlier known as psychopathy).

Please visit the site to give the article a number of "clicks."  Source:  https://filamcreative.wordpress.com/2018/03/12/jon-jon-briones-carlin-james-isa-briones-zedrick-restauro-join-darren-criss-in-fxs-the-assassination-of-gianni-versace-american-crime-story-march-14/










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This is such an interesting issue.  Representation matters.   Even if the Cunanan family was not healthy, I'm still very happy to see a mixed-Filipino-American family being represented on TV on a major show!   It may not seem like such a big deal to some, but for those communities who see very little representation on TV and film, it is deeply appreciated.  heart 
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carlinjames917: Just a reminder for anyone who cares. There’s legit gonna be the story of a “dysfunctional”, mixed-Filipino-American family told on TV!   wha? This NEVER happens!! It still blows my mind, and I’m so grateful I get to be a small part of it. #RepresentationMatters
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This is cool, a pic of the call sheet with Darren at the top. 
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   oscar711 BEING THERE…FEELING GREAT…{#}oscarcorbellaactor{/#}#beinginthemoment {#}actingismylife{/#}#tvshow {#}americancrimestory{/#}#comingsoon {#}grateful{/#} {#}actor{/#} {#}actorslife{/#}


Amazing seeing him as {#}1{/#} on the call sheet :cry  applause
Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) 75th Anniversary panel at the Paley Center:  TV Game Changers Panel.  October 26, 2017.


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Hollywood Insider TV's game-changers help celebrate #Globes75

The panelists talked about what television shows they personally enjoy watching. Kelley revealed he’s a big fan of Murphy’s “Feud” while Murphy announced he loves watching Kelley’s “Big Little Lies”, as well as “The Real Housewives.”

Murphy, the 52-year-old writer-director-producer of “Glee,” “American Horror Story” and “American Crime Story,” got reunited with his “Glee” cast that evening what with the presence of Darren Criss, Lea Michele and Matthew Morrison in the audience. Murphy spoke to the audience about his experience with change in the industry. “I never changed. What changed in my life were the executives. When I started, it was tough for me. At work, they would tell me ‘you’re too gay, your writing is too gay, your characters are too gay.’ It was painful for me. By the time I did ‘Glee’ I was still in fight mode but the executives wanted more gay, more of the gay character. I felt very liberated. That has been a great change in my life.”




Criss, who is portraying Andrew Cunanan in Murphy’s “The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” told us that they are not done filming yet and that they filmed a scene pretending to be Baliuag, Bulacan outside Los Angeles. “My mother even dropped by and checked it out,” he revealed.








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Darren leading a sing-along:  :happy face




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・・・ Music night! Wonderful host @michaelarden THANK YOU you gentleman, with @darrencriss on vocals & guitar, @rfleeshman on vocals, @gavrees @bodyvibrant and @chriskayson as backing dancers, and with @jmspinafore as the laughing guest. #chandelier #standbyme #whatsgoingon #music #jamming #losangeles #actorslife

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 Costume Designers Guild Awards, 2/21/17):




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The very handsome #darrencriss at the Costume Designer Guild Awards last night!
Grooming by #kmannmakeup

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chrisedgerley Gleeful party. Thank you for hosting @michaelarden. A wonderfully creative evening. @darrencriss it was a pleasure to meet you. #thankyouforthemusic #darrencriss











About the Costume Designers Guild Awards (2/21/17):


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Some pics from dailydarrennews from yesterday (Costume Designers Guild Awards, 2/21/17).  With designers Lou Eyrich and Helen Huang, and actor Trojan Bellisario:Topics tagged under actorslife on Darren Criss Fan Community Tumblr_olrl7ascAE1uetdyxo1_1280

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LQ | Costume Designer Lou eyrich and actor Darren Criss at the 19th CDGA presented by LACOSTE at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 21, 2017





With actor Troian Bellisario:
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LQ | Actors Darren Criss and Troian Bellisario speak onstage at the 19th CDGA presented by LACOSTE at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 21, 2017
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