Former “Pose” star Angelica Ross is asking out TV super-producer Ryan Murphy.
Ross, who starred in two seasons of FX’s groundbreaking collection, and has appeared in a number of seasons of Murphy’s “American Horror Story,” is alleging that Murphy left her “on learn” after she reached out to him relating to the thought for an all-Black forged for a season of “American Horror Story.” She stated an absence of communication left her questioning about her standing with Murphy and FX and whether or not she ought to pursue different tasks.
In a number of X posts on Tuesday, Ross shared e-mail correspondence between herself and the Emmy winner.
“Keep in mind your thought a couple of HORROR seasons starring Black ladies? Nicely I’m doing it,” Murphy wrote in an e-mail to Ross in 2020, in response to a screenshot she supplied. “Undecided of the story but, however we’ll begin a writers room within the fall. Together with you, who’re the 4 ladies I ought to get? I feel you, Keke Palmer, Gabby … Undecided of the fourth?”
A number of retailers have reported that the Gabby within the e-mail is actor Gabourey Sidibe.
In a TikTok additionally posted on Tuesday, the “Clear” actor confirmed two extra emails that she stated she despatched to Murphy.
One e-mail gave the impression to be a reply to his 2020 message. In it she wrote, “YAAAAAASSSSS! Debbi Morgan (“Eve’s Bayou”) the tradition would LIVE and he or she’s a powerhouse actress. Additionally another person like a Lynn Whitfield or Alfre Woodard would TURN IT.”
She added, “However, I’d completely say Me, Keke Gabby, and Adina [Porter] or Angela Bassett, (however I do know she’s most likely locked on certainly one of your different exhibits) Adina (additionally my sis Amiyah Scott (“STAR” on FOX) can be an important selection too. She is the one who launched me to “AHS.” Actually good instincts and timing and GORGEOUS.)”
After saying that she didn’t hear again from Murphy following that e-mail trade, Ross stated she despatched him flowers, in addition to an e-mail in 2022, however nonetheless acquired no response.
In her 2022 e-mail to Murphy, Ross stated she wrote, per a screenshot, “Good morning, up cleansing and organizing and desirous about what [‘AHS’] season 11’s focus might be after which simply thought possibly simply ask you that when that formulates if I might be on the manufacturing aspect as properly. I feel I may add rather a lot to the desk within the general storyline if we’re nonetheless seeking to a Black lead forged.”
Ross claimed Marvel had reached out to her and that she’d had in depth auditions with the studio — however she additionally was in limbo about her standing with Murphy and FX.
“It’s not JUST that the thought modified. Issues change on a regular basis,” she wrote in an X submit. “It’s that I known as enterprise affairs for MONTHS attempting to get readability in the event that they had been selecting up my contract choice or if I used to be okay to inform Marvel that I used to be out there for no matter they had been calling me for. I had been auditioning for THREE YEARS for marvel.”
Representatives for Murphy and FX didn’t instantly reply to The Occasions’ request for remark.