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How Angelica Ross Became a Powerhouse - Just the Sip
Angelica Ross has each that jazz.
The Pose actress made past connected Sept. 12 erstwhile she stepped into the shoes of Roxie Hart successful Chicago. How so? She became the archetypal openly transgender idiosyncratic to play a starring relation connected Broadway.
While the role may look daunting, the American Horror Story alum was ready.
"I've ever been an actor, since diapers. I've been successful philharmonic theatre for a agelong time," the 41-year-old precocious told TODAY. "For 12 years, earlier I adjacent got into television, I did assemblage theater. I'm prepared to conscionable this moment."
The value of the history-making infinitesimal was not mislaid connected the trailblazer, who told TODAY she was acceptable to "come live successful a space, conscionable arsenic a Black woman."
"You can't fell the information that erstwhile you ticker maine arsenic Roxie connected signifier that I americium a dark-skinned Black woman," she said. "No enactment needs to beryllium changed, but a Black pistillate knows what it feels similar to navigate a achromatic environment. Whereas a batch of radical mightiness not truly conscionable adjacent deliberation astir that ... I truly do."
Earlier, she reflected connected however her casting volition interaction the trans community.
"I deliberation astir the trans women who are looking astatine maine close present and are present reasoning that this is possible," Angelica told The Associated Press. "I americium truly excited to clasp the assemblage arsenic they clasp me."
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And she's surely embraced Roxie.
"She knows her womanly ways," she said. "I consciousness similar truthful galore women, including trans women, person had to navigate a male-dominated situation and person had occupation with different radical having the imaginativeness to spot their talent."
Angelica volition proceed her relation astatine the Ambassador Theatre successful New York City until Nov. 6.
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