Ryan Murphy talks about going from "Nip Tuck" to "Glee"

In a new interview, Ryan talks about his leap from his hit cable show "Nip Tuck" to "Glee".

‘Nip/Tuck’ seemed to get darker and darker…
I was doing a TV show called ‘Popular’ which wasn’t very popular which was a comedy and it only lasted for two seasons, and I was really young, so I wanted to reinvent myself. One of my favourite movies is ‘Carnal Knowledge’, the Mike Nichols movie, so I thought that I wanted to do ‘Carnal Knowledge’ with plastic surgeons so that is how I did it. That is how it came about. And then you’re right: it became darker and darker.

How did you make the leap from that to ‘Glee’?
I believe in putting stuff out to the universe so I said at a big meeting with some executives that I was tired of doing something so dark and I wanted to do a musical and they laughed in my face. And then two weeks later some guy came up to me and said that a friend of his had written a movie script about glee clubs and did I want to read it. I took it away, read it on a plane, and it was very adult. But I liked the title and I liked the writing, so I met the writer and we did it. I just conjured it out of a desire to do something happier. But a lot of people would not expect me to make a film like ‘Eat Pray Love’ and if you took my name off the title they would never guess that it was me.

There are common themes in your work, though, like the search for identity…
Absolutely. I think all my work is the same, in terms of what they’re about. ‘Even Nip/Tuck’ is about searching for identity – searching for yourself by changing your face, which is the wrong way to go. You’re better off going to a shrink instead. I’m fascinated with change – I change so much. I change everything in my life a lot: my house, my clothes, even circles of people. I get restless if I don’t. I’ve always been that way. I’m a restless person. I’m always working on several things, and now I have this music career on the back of ‘Glee’. I have an offer to start my own music label. I wish I could just concentrate on one thing for like one year, but I get too itchy.


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