Billy Porter toiled in Hollywood and on Broadway for three long decades before finding success with Pose. And even in his wildest dreams, he never imagined it'd look like this.
"We both grew up in households where who we are is labeled an 'abomination,'" Porter toldat the time."The thought of marriage, there was no context for it—there was no dreaming about it because there was no context to dream; it was unspoken and very clear that the sanctity of marriage was not for us. So to see that come around, to see that tide turned, it still takes my breath away; I'm still trying to find the words to describe it. I didn't think I needed it.
He pitched himself as one of the mothers of the house and was told of Murphy's plan to make them all transgender"which is the truth, which really excited me," he said. So he tried another tack:"I said, 'But wouldn't you need a father figure over there. In that world, wouldn't you need a godfather, like somebody who's an energy that is older perhaps.
That he had to blaze his own trail to land the role of his career in his fifth decade isn't lost on him. "I feel like I'm the kind of person who doesn't know how to do anything else but keep going," he noted to."My mother is my hero. She has had a disability her entire life. It's a degenerative condition that the world told her she wouldn't ever be able to do anything. I sat and watched her get out of bed every day and show up for her life every day. It really empowered me. It gave me that kind of tenacity to never give up. So yes.
Until now, of course, a long-needed shift in industry viewpoints making him a hot commodity, event planners clamoring to have a Billy Porter moment on their red carpets and audiences continuing to live for his work on"I've never dreamed that the kind of success that I wanted in this industry could look like this, could be this version," he told."I was trying to create some masculine alter ego so I could work. To meet some standard so that I could literally just get a job.
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