Pose Alum Billy Porter’s new role is writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin in the yet-to-be-titled biopic.
Billy Porter is the Perfect Actor!
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Actors and Allen Media Group, the team behind bringing the story to life announced that Porter has officially signed on to play the famous author. Porter will also flex his writing muscles and co-write the screenplay with Dan McCabe.
The screenplay will be based on James Baldwin: Biography, written by author David Leeming. Porter expressed his excitement to The Hollywood Report, “As the queer black man on the planet with relative awareness, I find myself, as James Baldwin said, ‘in a rage all the time.'”
He continued, “I am because of James. I stand on the shoulders of James Baldwin, and I intend to expand his legacy for generations to come.” This is a performance that smells like an Academy Award nomination.
Porter has not lent his name to any body of work and while he has established himself as a Broadway star, Porter has also found success in TV and film as well.
Billy Porter Is Close To An EGOT
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The versatile actor is just one award away from being an EGOT holder. Porter won a Tony Award for his performance in 2013 in Curly Shoes he was also on that album and won a Grammy that same year for the recording.
In 2019, he was nominated for and subsequently won an Emmy Award, for his performance as Pray Tell in FX’s Pose. Ironically Porter spoke and quoted Baldwin in 2019 when he won the Emmy.
Either he already knew he was going to play this role or he had manifested this and that was one of those moments he used to put it into the universe! His speech attracted the attention of the crowd.
“James Baldwin said, ‘it took years to spit out all the filth I’d been taught about myself and halfway believed before I could walk this earth like I had a right to be here.'”
Porter likens this to himself and repeats, “I have rights, you have rights, we all have rights.”
Allen Media Group is Joining
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The production company also shared their praise for the actor and launched the film. “We at Allen Media Group Motion Pictures are passionate about sharing the phenomenal story of James Baldwin with the world,” said Barry Allen, producer and co-owner of the company.
“Billy Porter and Dan McCabe’s talent and commitment to empowering James Baldwin’s legacy and contribution is invaluable and unmatched for this unique and epic story.”
Baldwin’s popular works include Go Tell It On The Mountainan autobiography about his childhood raised by a strict religious family.
If Beale Street Could Talk, is one of Baldwin’s works that was made into a film in 2018 starring Regina King, KiKi Layne, and Brian Tyree Henry. A young couple fights for his release from prison after being accused of a crime he did not commit by a racist police officer.
The film did well at the box office, we suspect that Allen Media Group is for the same result.
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