‘The Watcher’: Ryan Murphy Takes Pride In Having Cast Older Women In His Limited Series For Netflix
deadline.comRyan Murphy sat down with the female cast members of The Watcher to reflect on the true crime genre and discuss who may have been the true voyeur who inspired his Netflix limited series.
But first, Murphy was happy to take credit for accomplishing what few — if any — Hollywood projects try to accomplish these days: casting not one, but five women of a certain age. “People are always writing articles about how there are no roles for women over 40,” Murphy said to stars Naomi Watts, Jennifer Coolidge, Margo Martindale, Mia Farrow and Nova Dumezweni. “That’s not true … I try.
I love the scenes that you women all have together.” He also told the cast members that for the first time in his career, every one of them was his first choice for the seven-parter that dropped Oct.
13. Watts plays Nora Brannock, the co-owner of the house (with Bobby Cannavale) that’s being watched; Martindale and Farrow play a pair of creepy neighbors; Coolidge is the ambitious local realtor, and Dumezweni is the compassionate private investigator who attempts to help the Brannocks.
