{"id":142944,"date":"2020-05-05T15:49:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/05\/hollywoods-jeremy-pope-is-there-room-for-another-black-man-like-me\/"},"modified":"2020-05-05T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:49:49","slug":"hollywoods-jeremy-pope-is-there-room-for-another-black-man-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=142944","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood&#039;s Jeremy Pope: &#039;Is there room for another black man like me?&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Broadway actor-turned-breakout star of Ryan Murphy\u2019s new series on representation, prejudice and the high-octane world of Tinseltown past and present\u2018Can all of us be in the same room at the same time?,\u201d Jeremy Pope asks over the phone from his home in Los Angeles. It is over a month into lockdown, but he isn\u2019t questioning the rules of physical distancing. Rather, the 27-year-old is pondering the unspoken rules of Hollywood prejudice \u2013 who gets to share a platform with whom, and whether there\u2019s only space for one minority figure at any given time.Pope\u2019s latest project \u2013 his first major TV role \u2013 is in Ryan Murphy\u2019s new Netflix series Hollywood, a revisionist story set in 1940s Golden Age tinseltown, where he plays Archie, a gay, black screenwriter who is trying to break into the industry. It is a story he could relate to. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/may\/05\/hollywoods-jeremy-pope-is-there-room-for-another-black-man-like-me\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood&#039;s Jeremy Pope: &#039;Is there room for another black man like me?&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Broadway actor-turned-breakout star of Ryan Murphy\u2019s new series on representation, prejudice and the high-octane world of Tinseltown past and present\u2018Can all of us be in the same room at the same time?,\u201d Jeremy Pope asks over the phone from his home in Los Angeles. It is over a month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}