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Drama Series DYLLÓN BURNSIDE AND BILLY PORTER ON “POSE”
Lee Pace
How I Got My SAG Card:
Billy Porter
Evan Peters
“Pose” Everyone on this sequined and stunning series deserves accolades aplenty, but the performance that may most lodge itself in your heart is Porter’s Emmy-winning turn as Pray Tell. With countless friends and lovers dying of AIDS, he’s entrenched in sadness and unimaginable fear;
“It was either Papa John’s or Sour Patch Kids or a Moviefone commercial. It was one of those three, because around that time, I did those and was able to Taft-Hartley and then finally get the card.”
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yet he projects joy without ever coming off as saccharine. We’re finally mining the depths of this veteran theater actor’s abilities.
Justice Smith
“Generation” “Generation” star Smith gives one of the liveliest performances currently to be found on the small screen. Leading the HBO Max drama’s pack of ne’er-do-well Gen Z-ers as queen bee Chester, he’s bold, confident, and a little damaged; he also wears his queerness on his sleeve—decked out in gender-bent fashions, no less. Chester gives Smith welcome opportunity to chew scenery and sends him on the kind of personalgrowth journey that we wish we could see more of on TV.
Jeremy Strong
“Succession” “Succession” is a story of extremes, of people flying too backstage.com
“FOUNDATION”: HELEN SLOAN; “POSE”: ERIC LIEBOWITZ/FX
“Foundation” Pace is hubris personified as Brother Day, the cloned ruler of the ancient Galactic Empire on this Apple TV+ sci-fi series. Moving his body like it’s a holy relic, arms outstretched as though all are privileged to look upon him, the actor emanates unshakable confidence and menace. It’s a treat to watch Pace show the cracks forming in that veneer, proving that there are no gods among men.
“GODFATHER OF HARLEM”: COURTESY EPIX; “THE HANDMAID’S TALE”: SOPHIE GIRAUD/HULU
LEE PACE ON “FOUNDATION”
