All right, everyone, here's the interview that you've all been waiting for, the one you've dreamed about for as long as you can remember. That's right: it's amorgan's madcap conversation with Ryan Murphy, executive producer of Popular. Unfortunately, immediately after conducting this interview, I was called away on Top Secret Business for a couple of weeks, and was unable to transcribe my notes until quite a bit later. While it probably wouldn't stand up in a court of law, I'm sure that I've at least hit all the high points. That said, here we go.
["Warning: the interview contains spoilers. If you don’t want to know what happens in upcoming episodes, you might want to skip it until later in the season." -- Sars]
Amorgan: So how on earth did you get Delta Burke? She was incredible!
Ryan Murphy: We have the same agent. We met one day at the agency, and liked each other immediately. I told her that I'd love to have her on the show, especially now that she's so thin and glamorous, and she thought it was a great idea. We gave her a choice of four or five roles, and she chose Cherry Cherry immediately. It was a fabulous excuse to put her in that $50,000 mink coat that she wore in the stands in the homecoming episode.
Amorgan: How many writers do you have on your show?
RM: Well, I wrote six of the first ten shows, but we have a staff of five writers.
Amorgan: So, with Roberta Glass [Bio, for those who can't remember her recap name], did you have specific person in mind when you created that character?
RM: Not any one person, specifically. I wanted her to be the meanest teacher alive, and totally androgynous. When [the actress] auditioned for the part, she started ad-libbing what ended up being her first scene in the pilot, and we just fell in love with her. We are really lucky to have her. She's very accomplished, with tons of acting credentials under her belt. [Actually, he told me all kinds of things that she's done, but I forgot to write them down, and now I can't remember. I'm sure they were terribly impressive.] We're going to be expanding her role in the show even more than we have, by having her play all of the Glass triplets.
Amorgan: (nearly choking) Triplets?!
RM: (sounding very pleased with himself) Yep. Triplets. The final Glass sibling is going to be a man, no less, named Rock. Rock Glass.