I haven’t actually seen “Hollywood” yet and I’m reluctant to see it because the experience of making it was such great fun. With David Corenswet, Darren Criss, Laura Harrier, Joe Mantello. And that was the distinction between “Boys in the Band” and my previous experience. To playing Dick. “I was signing on for Ryan, and I trusted that Dick Samuels would follow,” admits Mantello, who chooses acting projects sparingly in favor of directing, explains that when Murphy came to him with the role, he initially didn’t see a lot in the role of Samuels.
She asks him if he’s gay. It’s what I carry away with me. “To have done Collaborating these last few years with Ryan Murphy, he’s been fascinated with the ways in which the creator’s career and journey through Hollywood was impacted by his sexuality. In his school days, he never realized he was gay. I don’t feel like I have to back that up by seeing it for myself, you know?JM: In this particular experience I was able to because we had such excellent directors.
And with this experience walking into it. At 57-years-old, he realizes he is gay. “It doesn't mean that it's there and it's present in our daily lives.
Joe Mantello made a rare return to television in the form of Dick Samuels on Netflix’s limited series “ Hollywood.” His previous project, “The Normal Heart,” scored him an Emmy nomination.
But it’s a particular topic of interest with Mantello, in a reversal of norm, because of his professional output more than his private life.It’s an indelible mark to leave on the community and on culture—and a distinction that Mantello is too humble to engage with too seriously, outside of praising the bravery and contribution of the playwrights for which he “became just a vessel.”“I always think it's interesting to understand in a kind of an archeological way, our history and what we emerged from, because in some way I feel that we have inherited some of that shame,” he says.
Obviously it’s very disappointing, but in the scheme of things, you know, it’s not the worst thing going on in the world at the time.”It is roughly two-thirds of the way through the season when The camera turns to Mantello’s Dick and Holland Taylor’s Ellen Kincaid, a casting executive and his best friend, acting a two-hander in her living room.
It really is. “When Ryan and I fist talked about it, Dick Samuels didn’t really exist as a character,” he says.
It really is. But interestingly enough, Holland and I, and we’ve both admitted this to one another, we were really terrified by the scene because we didn’t know how we were going to navigate it. He is known for his work in 'Take Me Out,' 'Wicked Love! “Now I might have to, what with Broadway closed…”Everything we can’t stop loving, hating, and thinking about this week in pop culture.By Clicking "Subscribe" you agree to have read the
“For me the experience of making ‘Hollywood,’ that really was the reward.” Naturally, there’s commercial success. IMAGE SOURCE: The Daily Beast Despite gaining tremendous sucess in broadway, he was never interested in moving to Hollywood. I want it to be a pure experience. Nobody wants to see it.
Despite gaining tremendous sucess in broadway, he was never interested in moving to Hollywood. You feel sort of out of place. And I think, again, that was Ryan. “For lots of other reasons that are fairly typical…” He laughs. I would say that back when I was an actor, when that part of my brain would kick in, it was always because I didn’t trust the person at the helm.
He grew up in Rockford, Illinois, the oldest of three brothers in a Catholic family. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I am thrilled that people are finding it such great fun and that they want to tune in and the number of people who’ve said to me… first of all, in the entire time I’ve been doing this as an actor and director, I’ve never had so many emails and texts about a project. So, you know working on something like It’s interesting to consider, in the context of a conversation timed to “I think people always seem mystified that when you reach a point in theater, they think of it as a stepping stone to what is ultimately the prize, which is directing a movie,” he says. We have to start you in one place so that you can end in a completely different place and I have it all planned out and it’s going to get good, I promise you.
In his over more than three-decade of career, he has worked in a handful of movies and television shows. She makes a pass at the bachelor. Everyone seems to know one another.
Now he’s making everyone watching Netflix cry.
They’re both getting older. Six years after his Emmy nominated performance in The Normal Heart, Joe Mantello has finally returned to television in Hollywood. He has a house in West Village, New York, a small Modernist house in Palm Springs, California, and a Hamptons getaway.Jon Robin Baitz is a American screenwriter and producer known for his work in 'The Slap' and 'Brothers &Sisters'.Paul Marlow is a businessman. Valour! In January 2013, he directed the Broadway premiere of Sharr White 's The Other Place at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. However, now on the insistence of his boyfriend, he wears more tailored clothes and even tries other more bright colors. So no, specifically about “Hollywood,” it did not kick in at all.JM: I have to say, it used to be a closed door and it’s no longer a closed door.
“But not because of my sexuality.” Any time an out gay person achieves a certain level of power and opportunity in Hollywood, their sexuality tends to dominate conversation as a point of fascination—a certain “how did they do it?” marveling at overcoming the odds. Mantello has confessed that he likes his new look. I knew JM: It has changed in the sense that, to me, the experience of making it is everything. But I think we left that day feeling really full and kind of proud of ourselves, but also of the characters and the way that they had to navigate that very, very fraught moment with one another. “I never really even thought of him as being closeted as much as he just shut down that part of his heart. I know Patti.
I remember, as I said, we were both really apprehensive about it.
It’s high praise from the the man who directed Metcalf to her second Tony Award in 2018 (“It might come back in another form for a brief run somewhere,” he says.
She asks him if he’s gay. It’s what I carry away with me. “To have done Collaborating these last few years with Ryan Murphy, he’s been fascinated with the ways in which the creator’s career and journey through Hollywood was impacted by his sexuality. In his school days, he never realized he was gay. I don’t feel like I have to back that up by seeing it for myself, you know?JM: In this particular experience I was able to because we had such excellent directors.
And with this experience walking into it. At 57-years-old, he realizes he is gay. “It doesn't mean that it's there and it's present in our daily lives.
Joe Mantello made a rare return to television in the form of Dick Samuels on Netflix’s limited series “ Hollywood.” His previous project, “The Normal Heart,” scored him an Emmy nomination.
But it’s a particular topic of interest with Mantello, in a reversal of norm, because of his professional output more than his private life.It’s an indelible mark to leave on the community and on culture—and a distinction that Mantello is too humble to engage with too seriously, outside of praising the bravery and contribution of the playwrights for which he “became just a vessel.”“I always think it's interesting to understand in a kind of an archeological way, our history and what we emerged from, because in some way I feel that we have inherited some of that shame,” he says.
Obviously it’s very disappointing, but in the scheme of things, you know, it’s not the worst thing going on in the world at the time.”It is roughly two-thirds of the way through the season when The camera turns to Mantello’s Dick and Holland Taylor’s Ellen Kincaid, a casting executive and his best friend, acting a two-hander in her living room.
It really is. “When Ryan and I fist talked about it, Dick Samuels didn’t really exist as a character,” he says.
It really is. But interestingly enough, Holland and I, and we’ve both admitted this to one another, we were really terrified by the scene because we didn’t know how we were going to navigate it. He is known for his work in 'Take Me Out,' 'Wicked Love! “Now I might have to, what with Broadway closed…”Everything we can’t stop loving, hating, and thinking about this week in pop culture.By Clicking "Subscribe" you agree to have read the
“For me the experience of making ‘Hollywood,’ that really was the reward.” Naturally, there’s commercial success. IMAGE SOURCE: The Daily Beast Despite gaining tremendous sucess in broadway, he was never interested in moving to Hollywood. I want it to be a pure experience. Nobody wants to see it.
Despite gaining tremendous sucess in broadway, he was never interested in moving to Hollywood. You feel sort of out of place. And I think, again, that was Ryan. “For lots of other reasons that are fairly typical…” He laughs. I would say that back when I was an actor, when that part of my brain would kick in, it was always because I didn’t trust the person at the helm.
He grew up in Rockford, Illinois, the oldest of three brothers in a Catholic family. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I am thrilled that people are finding it such great fun and that they want to tune in and the number of people who’ve said to me… first of all, in the entire time I’ve been doing this as an actor and director, I’ve never had so many emails and texts about a project. So, you know working on something like It’s interesting to consider, in the context of a conversation timed to “I think people always seem mystified that when you reach a point in theater, they think of it as a stepping stone to what is ultimately the prize, which is directing a movie,” he says. We have to start you in one place so that you can end in a completely different place and I have it all planned out and it’s going to get good, I promise you.
In his over more than three-decade of career, he has worked in a handful of movies and television shows. She makes a pass at the bachelor. Everyone seems to know one another.
Now he’s making everyone watching Netflix cry.
They’re both getting older. Six years after his Emmy nominated performance in The Normal Heart, Joe Mantello has finally returned to television in Hollywood. He has a house in West Village, New York, a small Modernist house in Palm Springs, California, and a Hamptons getaway.Jon Robin Baitz is a American screenwriter and producer known for his work in 'The Slap' and 'Brothers &Sisters'.Paul Marlow is a businessman. Valour! In January 2013, he directed the Broadway premiere of Sharr White 's The Other Place at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. However, now on the insistence of his boyfriend, he wears more tailored clothes and even tries other more bright colors. So no, specifically about “Hollywood,” it did not kick in at all.JM: I have to say, it used to be a closed door and it’s no longer a closed door.
“But not because of my sexuality.” Any time an out gay person achieves a certain level of power and opportunity in Hollywood, their sexuality tends to dominate conversation as a point of fascination—a certain “how did they do it?” marveling at overcoming the odds. Mantello has confessed that he likes his new look. I knew JM: It has changed in the sense that, to me, the experience of making it is everything. But I think we left that day feeling really full and kind of proud of ourselves, but also of the characters and the way that they had to navigate that very, very fraught moment with one another. “I never really even thought of him as being closeted as much as he just shut down that part of his heart. I know Patti.
I remember, as I said, we were both really apprehensive about it.
It’s high praise from the the man who directed Metcalf to her second Tony Award in 2018 (“It might come back in another form for a brief run somewhere,” he says.