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Billy Porter - 2023 Golden Globe Awards E! Glambot
Facts are facts.
That's 1 of the large takeaways from the Feb. 21 occurrence of Accused—and manager Billy Porter is erstwhile again excited to archer a queer, Black communicative with authenticity.
"What I'm truly excited astir is being successful a presumption and having a level wherever I tin beryllium astatine the helm of telling our stories authentically for our people, whoever the 'our' is," helium exclusively told E! News astatine the episode's premiere party. "For truthful long, 'our' stories person been told from radical who don't person thing to bash with us. What's large is being capable to travel into these spaces and pb it successful what I anticipation is felt and received arsenic the astir authentic it tin be."
After making his diagnostic movie debut with 2022's Anything's Possible, the Emmy victor moved to web TV for his adjacent foray down the camera. So however does it compare?
"The large quality is what you tin and cannot do, what you tin and cannot say," Billy explained. "Anything convulsive is fine, but you can't accidental s--t. The priorities are each f--ed up."
He continued, "You tin termination anybody you want, each the unit successful the satellite is really okay. But I can't accidental s--t. Weird. It's weird. That's weird."
"Robyn's Story," starring J. Harrison Ghee, centers astir Kevin, a Bostonian who shines arsenic their resistance queen persona Robyn Blind. However, erstwhile Kevin/Robyn find themselves falling for a antheral trapped successful the closet, their analyzable narration soon reaches caller extremes.
Meanwhile, Broadway prima J. (from Kinky Boots and Some Like It Hot) preached the importance of love and self-acceptance. "The champion portion astir telling Robyn's communicative is astir telling the truth, getting to the bosom of the matter," J. noted. "A batch of times we woody with things retired of fear, and often times we truly request to basal them successful love. Finding yourself and the information of who you are truly gets you to a amended place."
Accused, based connected the 2010 British anthology bid of the aforesaid name, comes from TV shaper Howard Gordon, of 24 and Homeland fame. He revealed however the caller iteration of "Robyn's Story," written by Daniel Pearle, improved upon Sean Bean's occurrence 13 years later.
"It's American authorities and besides civilization and society," Howard explained. "The main quality that Sean Bean played was a lonely, breached character, whereas Robyn is precise actualized. She has her friends, her life. I don't deliberation it was fetishizing drag, I deliberation we normalized it more."
In fact, the premiere enactment astatine The Abbey successful West Hollywood connected Jan. 30 adjacent included a resistance performance—with queens Naysha Lopez, Kyra Jeté, Calypso Jetè Balmain and Allusia. The caller occurrence besides stars Willam, Eva Reign, Kristen Connolly and Chris Coy as good arsenic a fewer philharmonic numbers. And that's a fact.
In the end, Billy is just blessed celebrating his success, admitting, "I did a bully job, child. They threw maine a party."
Make definite to witnesser "Robyn's Story" connected Accused, Tuesday, Feb. 21 astatine 9 p.m. EST connected Fox.
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