Pose Season 3 Premiere Cast Feels Represented in Final Season

**The category is: Pose!**

The hit FX series returns for its third and (sadly) final season this Sunday, May 2nd (10pm ET/PT). During a virtual press conference this past Monday that lasted an hour-and-a-half, the show’s stars talked about their experiences on Pose and we even saw co-creator Steven Canals get teary eyed.

Check out some highlights from that conversation, below.

Mj Rodriguez, a.k.a. Blanca, serves some advice:

MJ Rodriguez photo courtesy of FX

“This is specifically to the youth… now you know that it is extremely possible… to not only be a part of an amazing show that encompasses not just the G, but the L, the B, and the T, but also knowing your worth, not just through the work that you see on television, but in actual real life, knowing how much you are worth to keep going and that each and every last one of our stories through these characters is a testament to how possible… it is to really obtain and achieve your dream.

Being a leading lady next to the leading man of a great show. It’s possible, it’s obtainable, and you can achieve it simply by all of our stories right here.”

Angel Bismark Curiel, a.k.a. Lil Papi’s, BIG stance against transphobia:

Angel Bismark photo courtesy of FX

“I will never forget the first moment being in a project after Pose and hearing a driver say something extremely transphobic. And… I was like, ‘All right, bro. It’s do or die. You’ve got to use your voice right now, because that right there is so harmful and that right there is going to cause so much violence, and if I allow this young man or this individual to continue to think that that is okay, I’m just as accountable.’

And, so, I want to make sure that as I, you know, cross over to different projects, that I use my voice and I say, ‘Yo, that’s not cool, man.’ It’s not just okay to be cool with my castmates and with the writers and the producers and the directors. That’s just the bare minimum. That’s where it should start… I’m going to put you onto the lessons I learned from acting on this show, from spending endless hours with these people day in and day out.”

Indya Moore (Angel) on getting representation right:

Indya Moore photo courtesy of FX

“When you have trans and queer characters on a show and you want to tell the story truthfully and you don’t have writers who are a reflection…of those experiences (it) can be really difficult to nail right. So I would hope that in those circumstances, in the case where we don’t have people who reflect us in a writers’ room and who are the creators of our show, that they would check in on us… to make sure that they’re telling the stories right and that they don’t believe they can get it all right in their own minds, because they don’t have the experience to come up with the imagination to tell that story.

So, I think that the way that Steven (Canals) and Janet (Mock) put the story together was brilliant.”

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