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Catching Up with Billy Porter

In Bed with Nick and Megan

Earwolf

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Billy Porter gets in virtual bed with Nick and Megan to discuss his early days on Broadway with Megan, taking self care seriously later in life and creating a path of positive change for representation on Pose.

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0:00.0

Everybody loves a lover. I'm a lover. Everybody loves me anyhow. Best how I feel. Wow, I feel just like a polyamph.

0:22.6

Yeah, so we're here with Billy Porter. We've been having some really, really cute technical difficulties, but now we think we've got it all figured out.

0:34.2

Fingers crossed. Billy, it's so fun to see you always and um, it's good to see you guys too.

0:42.3

I know I think that we should start by saying that Billy and I have known each other since 1994.

0:52.1

Right? And we did it December of 93 actually. Oh, December of 93 count. We did.

0:59.6

That's when we started rehearsals. And we're on 42nd Street, you know, when it was still like,

1:05.3

Seedy lots of dirty.

1:08.7

When you could go pay someone to make.

1:15.2

So we did a revival of we did a revival of Greece on Broadway in 1994. And that's when we met.

1:25.6

And it was all of our almost all of our first Broadway show, right?

1:30.8

It was not mine. It was my third, but I know why did you do that before that?

1:36.1

I was in the original cast of Miss Saigon. And then I did the original cast of five guys named Mo and then I came over to Greece.

1:45.6

Okay, good. So we had a lot of fun. It was fun. Billy played the team. Yeah, I was fun.

1:52.1

He like stopped the show every night.

1:54.9

Oh, can you imagine? Yeah. That crazy, crazy production of Greece.

2:02.8

Just type it into YouTube. You'll see it was psychedelic. It was like neon, neon Greece.

2:12.0

The, if I, if I may, I think that the director and the producers were super high every night when they

2:18.8

were deciding what to do. I don't think that's much of a secret.

2:22.8

No, I know they were high when they did. Yeah.

2:25.8

When they put this, put the concept together. I, they were high. You had to be high to come up with that.

2:32.1

It was fun. You were so great.

2:36.8

You were too. I remember. You were too. You were too.

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