“We want the events that brought America together and also that shine a light on the parts of America that maybe we don’t want to acknowledge”, said executive producer Brad Simpson on Tuesday following a panel for TV critics about “The People v. O.J. Simpson”. “And what we had here was what [show creators Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski] said from the beginning was an Altman-esque approach where you have all these characters colliding”.
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The next season of American Crime Story will deal with Hurricane Katrina, and though Paulson’s already going to be in the next American Horror Story, she said she’s “begging” producers to include her in the Katrina story as well. “I’m, sadly, not going to be making any big news here today in terms of who will be returning”, he said.
Dishing some vague details on the season 2 storyline, Simpson revealed a bit about the characters to expect, saying, “You will have the famous people and also the people who weren’t famous”.
Sarah Paulson is “begging” to star in the upcoming season of American Crime Story, which is set to feature Hurricane Katrina as the main theme. Here’s the thing, though: It’s not altogether clear if any of them are regulars, or are playing a smaller part. Star Cuba Gooding Jr., who still hasn’t watched the series, said that the original racial divide over the “not guilty” verdict has flipped for numerous people he’s met.
But the drama, which centred on the trial of the disgraced National Football League star, would be focussing on the years after Simpson walked away a free man after being cleared of murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
“I feel like it changed me molecularly in a way”, she confessed. “I had forgotten how much he was loved”. “A complete procedural of how things went down”, he said.
“We’ve been pitched that”. They captured the voices really well, but added a sitcom element to it.
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None of those assembled were eager to really divulge their own options of the acquitted Simpson – except Sarah Paulson. “It’s going to be subject to their availability that we have the right roles”. “That obviously didn’t happen”.
