Why hasn’t Ryan Murphy thrown “BLANK” a bone?

Kathleen Turner.

He’s next on sjws takedown list after Ellen.

Oh, Miss Dunaway know why, for reasons that are well known to her!

R1, that was my first thought!

Even though she doesn't need the work, I'm surprised he hasn't recruited Sigourney Weaver to join his roster of actresses of a certain age.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Sean Young

The correct answer was the late Peggy Lipton. Ryan missed his chance.

I'm almost done watching the original Twin Peaks and it's strange how Peggy just disappears halfway through the 2nd season, and Heather Graham takes over as her character's sister.

After she attacked that gay stage hand, Faye Dunaway doesn’t even deserve a chicken bone.

Dudes can play, too: Kevin Bacon.

Some of these people don’t wanna work.

Michelle Pfeiffer doesn’t need his help!

Anjelica Huston could be interesting in Murphy’s world.

Anjelica Huston would be wasted in anything of his. So is anyone else who can act.

I actually wonder why he hasn’t recast more of his cast from his earlier shows. He used Annalyn McCord in Nip/Tuck and then she left for 90210. He never hired her again. She would have worked well on Scream Queens.

He also missed his shot with Tab Hunter.

George Maharis is 92, and could be wheeled in for a scene or two.

Why doesn’t he give Britney something to do?

Why doesn’t he give Britney something to do?

Meghan Markle

[quote]I actually wonder why he hasn’t recast more of his cast from his earlier shows.

Wentworth Miller was briefly on POPULAR. He definitely deserves Murphy's bone.

Gina Gershon

Laurie Metcalfe

She doesn't need the money or the work, but: Jessica Harper.

Jessica Walter (not Harper)

Heather Locklear

R23 I’ve wondered about her too. I’m shocked he hasn’t reached out to her

Kim Novak.

Emma Samms and Pamela Sue Martin (and, oh yeah, Catherine Oxenburg and Karen Celini)

How’s about Beth Grant?

How about Robert Gant?

Barbra Streisand.

Betty White

Zac Enron

^ Zac Efron

She'd be as much of a handful as Faye, but ... MADONNA!

Nene Leakes

Meredith Baxter, Stefanie Powers, Linda Gray...there's a plethora of 80s ladies he could reach out to. Anjelica should be next if it's a good script...she's picky about what she takes these days, so she might not settle for just any Murphy dreck.

R35, Meredith Baxter was wasted on Glee. She and Patty Duke (HUGE missed opportunity) did one episode as a longtime lesbian couple that were Kurt & Blaine's relationship mentors. She'd probably never do it, but ... Victoria Principal.

Or throw Murphy out. Sick of his ubiquity.

Abe Vigoda’s ghost

Joan Cusack.

Kristy McNichol.

Andrea McArdle

Joan Cusack is great in Homecoming.

Lena Heady, Frances McDormand, Julie Kavner, Sam Elliott.

[quote] Meredith Baxter, Stefanie Powers, Linda Gray...there's a plethora of 80s ladies he could reach out to.

He needs to act now to get me because as soon as you-know-who gets out of you-know-where, that show we did together is gonna find a way back on the air.

I'd love to see Meredith Baxter chew up the scenery as a Murphy villainess.

In Murphy's hands, it'll just feel like a redo of Betty Broderick.

[Quote] He used Annalyn McCord in Nip/Tuck and then she left for 90210. He never hired her again. She would have worked well on Scream Queens.

Does she still act? Used to be alot of blind items about Annalynne and her sister fucking Dominic Purcell.

[Quote] Wentworth Miller was briefly on POPULAR. He definitely deserves Murphy's bone.

But he already has Berlanti's.

I'll never forgive him for hiring Patti LaBelle and casting her as Dora the Maid in AHS:Freakshow.

What a waste. No wonder she never came back and worked with him ever again.

For that matter, R48, casting Whoopi Goldberg ... on GLEE ... as an opera diva?!

Think about the possibilities: Annie Lennox.

amazing r50. make it so!

Linda Fiorentino.

Daryl Hannah. Melanie Griffin. Sigourney Weaver. Joan Allen. Demi Moore.

I, for one, love that he casts actresses from my youth and not generic new starlets. Hate him all you want but it’s great seeing these mature actors getting another role and having fun with it.

Brendad Ickson

Demi would seem like a logical choice. With her stringy black hair, she would have made a good witch.

R43, I’m in no rush to see Frances McDormand again after her undeserved second Oscar win. Her pissed off slattern act has gotten old.

Sissy Spacek, Anjelica Huston, Laurie Metcalf and Isabelle Adjani would be wonderful, inspired casting choices.

I know Ryan Murphy has mostly abandoned the casts of his pre-Glee shows, but Sara Rue (Popular) and Famke Janssen (Nip/Tuck) are talented actresses who get little opportunity to show what they are capable of these days.

Joan Van Ark.

Miss Tina Louise!

Mary Kay Place

[quote]For that matter, [R48], casting Whoopi Goldberg ... on GLEE ... as an opera diva?!

I thought this was poor casting too. Was she an opera diva? I thought she was head of the drama school and therefore a grand actress like Marian Seldes.

Morgan Fairchild would fit right in his campy nonsense.

Famke Janssen was amazing on Nip/Tuck. She definitely deserves more roles.

I’m not convinced that some of these mentions are still alive, but then again he does AHS, so getting dead actors on could work.

Sean Young had a retuning role on a season of The Alienist, and she was OK.

Sigourney Weaver may be above it, though she is good when she does campy stuff.

Some of them are simply too far gone. There aren't enough smoke and mirrors. Morgan Fairchild. But I suppose if they allowed themselves to be filmed in old age decrepitude. Faye Dunaway.

Parker Posey.

R61, I forget the exact line, but Kurt said something about Whoopi ejecting an audience member when playing Madea "and singing one of my 'I'm killing my baby' arias." It would have made more sense if she was a Marian Seldes type, but I guess they were going for Patti LuPone meets Beverly Sills.

Remember Sarah Jessica Parker's brilliant comic turn as the fashion editor on GLEE? No?

Neither does anyone else.

Some of these diva casting stunts really don't pay off. (By contrast, even GOOP and Kristin Chenoweth were both funny and genuinely memorable in their recurring GLEE guest spots.)

Sissy Spacek, Frances McDormand,Angelica Houston are way better than that show. He just wants famous people’s lousy kids. We are stuck with that bitch Sarah Paulson getting the lead roles. Now that movie career tanked.

Danny Pintauro and Mindy Cohn.

I don't know what Murphy's take is on Susan Sarandon these days, but she did very well by him in FEUD. A great performance. She hasn't worked with him since. She did a recurring spot on RAY DONOVAN (did people care?) but otherwise her resume is mostly voiceover work these days.

If he has a soft spot for her, he should throw her a bone. She's jump for it.

I loathe her and her political pronouncements, but she's capable of very good work onscreen, despite it all.

Emily Lloyd

Why on Earth would you suggest an actress to whom he has already thrown a bone? Are you going to suggest Judy Davis and Sharon Stone next?

Dianne Weist and Mia Farrow.

Mindy Cohn could be charming.

Danny Pintauro would be a disaster as usual. He is to acting as Ryan Murphy is to directing: they do such a bad job of them that they both harm other gay people by association with their incompetence.

Get me Daniel J. Travanti.

Linda Evans! I can't remember the last time I saw her in anything.

Does she still believe in Crystal Light?

Dream casting: reunite the trio of young divas from “Little House”— Melissa Gilbert (who did a degrading guest spot on “Nip/Tuck”), Melissa Sue Anderson, and Allison Arngrim and let them tangle in campy grand guignol style.

R79 Allison Arngrim would be late as some late19th- century shrew.

[quote]I know Ryan Murphy has mostly abandoned the casts of his pre-Glee shows, but Sara Rue (Popular) and Famke Janssen (Nip/Tuck) are talented actresses who get little opportunity to show what they are capable of these days.

Great idea. I'd love to see him work with Sara Rue and Tammy Lynn Michaels (who started acting again after a loooooong break last year.)

He at least had Leslie Bibb and Bryce Johnson on Nip/Tuck.

Donna Mills, Heather Thomas.

I seem to remember hearing he alienated a lot of the Nip/Tuck cast when he disappeared from the show to work on other projects and the scripts stopped making sense.

R83 Lol, scripts not making sense is a Ryan Murphy trademark.

He doesn't seem too keen on hiring out gay men his age.

Is there anyone as old as Ryan Murphy now that Olivia died?

Donna Mills and Joan Van Ark were on 'Nip-Tuck'. I never watched it, but my friend DVR'd the ep just so I could see the two of them on there. Deborah Shelton was in this ep as well...I'd totally forgotten.

Nip/Tuck started getting really wonderful guest stars around season 4, but that was right when the show itself was tanking. The storylines were getting stale and the characters stopped making sense. Murphy thought turning it into The Love Boat with a few special guest stars every week could dazzle people into thinking the show still had something to say. Season 4 was a true embarrassment of riches with everyone from Kathleen Turner, Rosie O'Donnell, Brooke Shields, Melissa Gilbert, Jacqueline Bisset, and even Catherine Deneuve showing up.

This is one of Murphy's greatest gifts. He's able to get really wonderful actors to sign on to do his shows with usually only a rough sketch of their character and storyline. The scripts themselves seem to be written the night before they shoot.

Kim Basinger.

R89, excellent choice.

Sigourney Weaver did Marvel's lame THE DEFENDERS on Netflix, so she's not above doing a Murphy show at this point.

I forgot Kathleen Turner did an episode of Nip/Tuck. Hmm ... since he's already worked with Nicole Kidman, how about her Practical Magic costar, Sandra Bullock?

Sandra Bullock does not need a Ryan Murphy bone!

Sally Kirkland.

[quote]since he's already worked with Nicole Kidman, how about her Practical Magic costar, Sandra Bullock?

Nicole is technically doing a film with him based on a play that wasn't actually written by him.

Sandra just had the number two most streamed film in history.

Beyond that she only works when she feels like it. She does not need Ryan Murphy's "help."

Eva Marie Saint (96 years old)

Why isn't he returning my calls?

Sally Kirkland.

Agree Beth Grant. I love her sparkle motion.

R89 i wonder how much she got paid for doing Fifty Shades...?

Linda Lavin

Sun-Yi playing herself in Wood vs. Mia

Michele Lee would rock his world, and ours.

Kate Jackson!

More Tuc Watkins!

Melanie Griffith. I think she has the best chance cause she’s a famous kid. And she hasn’t worked for a while.

Anyone with talent is wasted in a Ryan Murphy show.

R102 if she's not available, ScarJo would be the next best thing.

It would be kind of a coup for him to lure Bridget Fonda out of retirement.

I think Bridget would have more class than to appear in a Murphy abortion.

Fonda not exciting enough of a name! Roseanna Arquette could be interesting but not a big get.

Maybe it’s time James Franco signed on his career seems to have gone to shit.

Cher?

He should do a series with James Franco, Kevin Spacey, Jeffrey Tambor, Aziz Ansari, and Ed Westwick.

Jenna Elfman

R113 And Rose and Anthony. A remake of The Girl Most Likely To called The Has-beens Most Likely To.

Cher can do [italic]Pose[/italic] with all the other self-loathers.

Phil Collins

R117 he'd probably have to hire Lily first.

Armie Hammer

Famous peoples kids that can’t act need only to apply.

Jeffrey Tambor needs work.

Chad Everett (corpse)