Billy Porter and Ryan Murphy on 'redefining what a leading man looks like' with PoseFX
During Tuesday's discussion, Murphy also recalled when he made it clear to Porter that the entertainer was one of's central forces. "I said, 'No, you're motherfucking not [a supporting character],'" Murphy said, causing laughter from the audience. "[I told him], 'You are the male lead of this show. This story line revolves around you being the male lead of this show.
"While they were casting me as Romeo, while they had an idea that I might possibly grow up to be a leading man, I was the queen going, 'For who? When's that going to happen?'" said the 1991 graduate. "Because the archetypes that I had seen didn’t look like me. They were James Earl Jones, who's the black patriarch, there is Denzel Washington, who is the sex symbol, and there's Eddie Murphy, who's the genius clown.
"The intention is to create a space where we have this conversation and it's no longer taboo, and the stigma [attached to HIV] is taken away and we get to tell these stories more often [in Hollywood]," Porter toldHe continued on stage, "When we have these moments where we can create a space that shows African American men trying to figure out how to love each other as opposed to trying to kill each other ...
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