Netflix's 'Hollywood' depicts a more accepting version of the early days of the film industry. Here's what actually happened.
The early days of Hollywood are often romanticized, but the era wasn’t perfect by any measure. Diversity wasn’t as readily accepted as it is today — people of color were discriminated against and shut out of major productions, or otherwise given tokenized roles. The LGBT community existed in the shadows.
And while it was important to Ryan Murphy to share this side of history in his newest Netflix series,, he also sought to create , “a world where women and gay people and people of color could flourish.” In doing so, he and co-creator Ian Brennan re-wrote some of the stories of real-life actors and industry personalities. Read on below to see howHollywood spoilers below. Wong was a Chinese-American actress who rose to prominence in the silent era.
and starred in several films abroad. A few years after she returned to America, Wong went out for the role of O-Lan in a film adaptation of Pearl Buck’s Nobel Prize-winning novel about struggling Chinese farmers,
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