Podcasts Culture Talks at Google Ep105 - Billy Porter | Pose and Beyond

Ep105 - Billy Porter | Pose and Beyond

Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 4:30 a.m.

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Billy Porter is a Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award-winning, actor, singer, director, composer. He won a Tony Award in 2013 for originating the role of \\u201cLola" in Broadway\\u2019s Kinky Boots, and his electric portrayal of \\u201cPray Tell\\u201d in Pose earned him a 2020 Golden Globe nomination and a Critics\\u2019 Choice Award nomination. He also recently starred in the eighth season of Ryan Murphy\\u2019s acclaimed American Horror Story: Apocalypse as \\u201cBehold Chablis.\\u201d

Billy joins us to discuss his career, his experience as a black queer man in entertainment, and his role on the acclaimed series Pose. Co-created by Ryan Murphy, Pose is a drama spotlighting the legends, icons and ferocious house mothers of New York\\u2019s underground ball culture, a movement that first gained notice in the late 1980s. Making television history, Pose features the largest cast of transgender actors in series regular roles. The Golden Globe-nominated and Emmy-nominated drama also features the largest recurring cast of LGBTQ actors ever for a scripted series.

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