Listen: Jim Parsons on Dancing in ‘Hollywood’ and Why Playing a Woman in College Theater Changed His Life

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  • Author: Marc Malkin
  • May 28,2020

Listen: Jim Parsons on Dancing in ‘Hollywood’ and Why Playing a Woman in College Theater Changed His LifeJim Parsons really knows how to play lecherous and repugnant.

Just take a look at his work as Henry Wilson in “Hollywood,” a new Netflix drama from Ryan Murphy. Wilson, a ruthless powerbroker whose clients included Rock Hudson, Lana Turner, Robert Wagner and Tab Hunter, was a sexual predator who preyed on young men trying to make it in show business.

Despite the makeup and fake teeth, hair and eyes, Parsons is far from physically unrecognizable in the role. Still, the actor says he had never felt such “freedom” in front of the camera while portraying Wilson.

“I had a friend watch it. She wrote me and said — and I thought this was very well put — ‘It’s not that it doesn’t look like you. Tt’s not like anybody would notice that and say, ‘Who the hell is that?’ It’s like you were shot through a spider web covered creepy filter,
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