Emmy-nominee Billy Porter (theebillyporter) reveals how his PoseFX character Pray Tell came to be THRRoundtable
. You've subsequently said that because of that devastation, it became that much more important for you to do the series. Why? And what were you hoping to illustrate with this show?First, because I live in Mexico, and the struggle is happening. It's violent times for my country. And it was interesting to revisit my childhood and the Mexico of the '80s from this perspective because my father was trying to hide this Mexico from me. Now everything starts to make sense.
I know how well the series has been received in the U.S., but what has the reception been like in Mexico?At the beginning, people were very critical to us. People wanted to say, like, "Don't keep telling the story of Los Narcos, stop it, there's another Mexico." And I agree, but we're in war right now, and Mexico needs this conversation out. The violence has started to hit the cities and started to get really close and now everyone has a story, and that needs to stop.
Hugh, initially you had some hesitation about doing TV. Why, and what was it about this project that made you change your tune?Florence Foster Jenkins], it was three scripts. And I thought, "Television? I don't do television." And then I read them and they were brilliant. And I realize everyone does TV now — I just can't help having a little hankering for the old days of glamour and cinemas with lots of people in them. Anyway, it's all gone.
Talk to us about watching the show, particularly an early gay sex scene, with your 89-year-old father …Oh yes, ex-military father, who I have dinner with on Sunday nights. To my horror, I went around when the show was just coming out on the BBC and he said, "Now wait a minute, isn't your [gay] film on TV tonight? Let's watch it." And I said, "No, no, it's not up your alley, you wouldn't like it, really.
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