While the period drama may present a fantasy of what Hollywood’s Golden Age could have been like if LGBTQ people, women and people of colour had been given a fair chance to shine, there are a few characters based on real-life familiar faces.
As well as scenes loosely inspired by the memoir of real-life Hollywood sex worker Scott Bowers called Full Service, there’s also fictional appearances from iconic actors Rock Hudson and Hattie McDaniel, and talent manager Henry Willson.