Pop Singer Hayes Warner Never Acted Professionally in Her Life. Ryan Murphy Cast Her in ‘The Shards’ Anyway

At her first screen test, Murphy gave the newbie some notes. She didn’t understand them but was too afraid to ask. Luckily, she got another shot.

Ryan Murphy knows one thing for certain: 1981 was the year that made him. He was 16, growing up in a Catholic family but getting his first taste of freedom. That included television. It was only a few years earlier that his mother had even let him watch it for the first time, an experience…