Ricky Martin Interview: His Devastating Transformation for American Crime Story

Martin Speaks with Vanity Fair’s Still Watching: Versace Podcast about his devastating turn in the show’s premiere.

Martin spends the rest of the episode grief-stricken and covered in Versace’s blood. In a striking, wordless, and unscripted moment, Martin lets his eternally optimistic mask slip off entirely and he’s fantastic. The gleaming smile gone and eyes sagging with exhaustion, Martin—wearing the personal grief of his own decades spent in the closet—stares at himself in the mirror. “I guess Ryan wanted to use and take advantage of that vulnerability,” Martin said in a new interview for Vanity Fair’s American Crime Story companion podcast, Still Watching: Versace. Approaching Martin after nine hours of filming both the discovery of Versace’s body and a confrontational police interrogation scene, Murphy said, “Rick, come on, let’s go to the bathroom. I want you to stand in front of the mirror. Wash your hands because you’ve been covered in blood for the last 10 hours and give me whatever you can in front of the mirror.” In that moment, Martin says, he was “exhausted, drained, and really sad.”

John Homa was recently on-set coach for Ricky Martin along side Ryan Murphy for The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story​.

You can listen to the full interview with Martin on the latest episode of Still Watching: Versace.​​​

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Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/01/american-crime-story-versace-episode-1-ricky-martin-interview-podcast-still-watching