Ryan Murphy on how his Half Foundation led to 'Feud'

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Ryan Murphy oversees a small TV empire on FX, with series including American Horror Story, American Crime Story and his latest effort, Feud. The first cycle of that show focuses on the rivalry between movie icons Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. On all his shows, Murphy now has a strict rule: at least half of the directors and crew members must be women or minorities.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:04.5	The idea that there's the it girl in Hollywood, there's no it boy.
0:08.8	Like we are living in a culture of one woman at a time is allowed to have power, and that's it.
0:13.6	Prolific writer-director producer Ryan Murphy is on a mission.
0:17.6	He has a lot of shows on FX, American Crime Story, American Horror Story,
0:22.1	and his latest feud, and he wants half the people working behind the camera to be women or
0:27.1	minorities. He talks about the inspiration behind those efforts and the first cycle in his
0:32.4	feud series, which focuses on the bitter rivalry between Betty Davis and Joan Crawford.
0:38.1	He also explains why he's at work on series about Charles and Diana,
0:42.1	as well as Monica Lewinsky and the 2016 election.
0:46.3	But first on the news banter, Hollywood is having a breakdown.
0:50.1	Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.
0:57.8	I'm a good. Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my banter associate, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood reporter.
1:01.6	Hello, Matt.
1:02.2	Hi there.
1:03.2	So, Matt, I've been at this for a while, a few years covering Hollywood.
1:06.6	I've never seen anything like the environment right now.
1:10.4	There are two studios, Sony Pictures and Paramount, that are leaderless as we are taping.
1:16.3	It could change possibly any day now, any minute now, but they have not announced a leader at Paramount.
1:22.4	Sony, there's this odd silence.
1:24.4	Michael Linton is supposedly sort of there, but really is not going to be
1:28.8	there and not remaining as head of Sony Pictures. And Time Warner is being acquired,
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