Oh, it’s gone now. I’m sure the Trump administration was listening in.
They have to.
Anyway, yeah, I thought it was a great setup for a potential series, and then I Zoomed with Max and David Kohan, and it was love at first sight.
Were you a viewer of The Golden Girls?
I mean, you know, people were obsessive about that show to a disturbing degree, and obviously it’s meant a lot to the gay community. I admired all of those women, they were wonderfully funny, terrific actresses, but, you know…books have been written analyzing The Golden Girls, so I don’t have quite that kind of obsession with it. I thought it was a great show and it was done beautifully. And other than the fact that our show is about a group of friends living together, and I move into a house where I’m living with my mother [played by Linda Lavin], I think it moves on along its own path after that.
It’s so refreshing to watch a show with queer characters who aren’t all 20-somethings. Why do you think we don’t see more of that?
You know, you’d have to ask the studio heads and television executives. Max and David had this idea that they were working on for a couple of years, but I think it happened because of Ryan Murphy. He’s powerful enough to say, “Let’s make up this pilot.” I think it’s really a very smart, funny script, but I think the reason it happened is because of him. We made a very good pilot, and Hulu was excited by it, but it doesn’t hurt to have Ryan Murphy in your corner. The whole process happened very quickly, from pilot to series; everyone kept saying to me, “Oh, it’ll be a long time. They’ll take a long time to decide about this,” and it all happened very fast, which was exciting.
