LOS ANGELES, Sept 29: Director Ryan Murphy says he had faced a lot of trouble while creating his debut teenage comedy-drama “Popular” on the WB Television Network.
Murphy, 50, the man behind the hit series like “Glee”, “American Horror Story” and “Scream Queens”, revealed that the TV network was very “homophobic” over the content of his 1999 show, “Popular”, reported Entertainment Weekly.
“They never got me and they kept trying to turn me into something else. And they were very homophobic even though they would have gay characters on the air.
“They would give me notes like, ‘The Mary Cherry character, like, could she be less gay?’ Like, it was very relentlessly homophobic. It was rough and I didn’t have a good experience with the studio and everybody,” he said.
Murphy said he went along with the changes he was told because he was new in the industry that time.
“I wanted it to work so I did the notes and thus I ended up jeopardizing my own sensibility and it got cancelled after year two.
“But it was a really important experience for me because what I learned is follow your gut, listen to your voice, and if they don’t want your voice, they don’t want you,” he added. (PTI)
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