Steven Canals says he met with at least 167 executive who passed on 'Pose,' saying 'it's too black ... it's too brown, it's too queer, it's too urban, too many trans characters.' hereandnow The Emmy-winning show has been renewed for a third season.
Steven Canals attends the red carpet event for FX's"Pose" at Pacific Design Center on Aug. 09, 2019 in West Hollywood, California.
The melodrama tells the story of a teenage boy who was kicked out of his home for being gay and runs away to New York City. Set in the 1980s, he discovers the underground ball subculture. He watched “Paris Is Burning” several years before he wrote the show, but he conceptualized the main character as a black boy named Damon who wants to be a dancer. Think Jennifer Beals’ character in “Flashdance,” he says.
After taking a screenwriting class at UCLA, he started putting the “puzzle pieces” together and knew he wanted to pursue a career in entertainment. He later attended UCLA’s graduate screenwriting program where he wrote the screenplay for “Pose.” When he was pitching the show, executives often question who would play Canals’ characters. His inability to “rattle off a list of queer and trans” actors signaled to these executives that the show couldn’t work, he says.
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