Billy Porter shares what it was like filming “Pose” during a pandemic in a candid new chat with Uzo Aduba for the “Variety Studio: Actors on Actors” series. “Pose” had begun filming before the pandemic hit but, as Porter says, the team had to go on hiatus for seven months.
He says of telling an AIDS story during the coronavirus crisis, “It became very clear during the pandemic that I was having PTSD, based on what I had already lived through.
I’m 51, so there’s a whole generation of gay men, queer men, my age who, you know, we lived through it. We survived the plague. “It taught me that I needed to take care of myself.