‘The Shards’ Star Igby Rigney on Wooing Ryan Murphy, Never Meeting Bret Easton Ellis and Not Worrying About Sex Scenes: ‘It’s Like Doing a Dance Under a Microscope’

By Ethan Shanfeld

Ethan Shanfeld

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Igby Rigney is exhausted. 

It’s a day before “The Shards” launches, and he’s just gotten back from Berlin, the final stop of a global press tour that also took him to New York and London. When the series debuts on FX on Aug. 5, he’ll be celebrating at the official launch party at a roller rink in Los Angeles. 

Right now, during this brief moment of calm, he’s home in L.A. and resting with his cat, Plusha, who meows throughout our Zoom interview. “I feel like a Bond villain,” he says, petting the animal in his lap.

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