Ezra Sosa: Trusting His Talent
The Squeeze
Taylor Lautner
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Tay sits down with Dancing with the Stars pro Ezra Sosa! Ezra reflects on this past season and how it finally gave him the opportunity to fully showcase his talent for both dance and choreography, including the story behind his freestyle dance and what that piece meant to him personally. He opens up about what it was like partnering with Olympian Jordan Chiles, navigating the intense scrutiny and hate on social media, and the boundaries he’s learned to set online to protect his peace. Ezra also shares how he keeps his love for dance alive despite the pressure, what mental health looks like for him while on tour, and the advice older pros gave him that stayed with him. He opens up about being a queer performer, honoring both his masculine and feminine sides, and how he stays grounded in who he is within an industry that often expects you to look, act, and dress a certain way.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. Oh yeah, that's the best part. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, this is kind of fierce. Maybe it's like an air wand pizza. Like a good, good. I'm like, okay, privilege. It's a clean pizza? No, I didn't care at that point. Great. Like, full transparency. She's definitely like twerking on national television, like on Dancing with a Starz, just probably has never happened before. |
| 0:23.2 | How's it going to be on tour without her? I'm going to mess her. I mean, I taught convicted felon how to dance, so that definitely came with its battles. So when they were coming for like my choreography, I was like, okay, no, like, |
| 0:37.9 | I can pull up. Like, I can 100% do this. With Anna, I was eliminated first. So you didn't really get to see, like, my choreographic ability. And then they would come up to me and they'd be like, I love your TikToks. I love your social media, which is like awesome. But that's not my love. Like, that's not my passions. |
| 0:51.7 | It's a load of bold. |
| 0:52.4 | Just, like, always just stay true to who you are. |
| 0:54.8 | I definitely feel like a lot of people. Just like always just stay true to who you are. |
| 0:54.9 | I definitely feel like a lot of people in this industry |
| 0:57.5 | tend to lose themselves over a job, |
| 0:59.7 | lose their identity to fit a certain thing. |
| 1:02.6 | For me, what really helped the most |
| 1:04.2 | was just allowing space to discover myself. |
| 1:06.9 | But once I did, really staying true to who that was. |
| 1:27.3 | Lemon drops, the day has officially come. Ezra Sosa is on the podcast. Yes, cheers, applause. We've had |
| 1:32.1 | him on before with Riley. We did a fun Christmas episode with them a couple years back, but I'm so |
| 1:36.7 | excited that I finally got the opportunity to sit down one-on-one with Ezra and dive into all of the |
| 1:42.6 | things. In this episode, Ezra reflects on this |
| 1:45.4 | past season of Dancing with the Stars and how it finally gave him the opportunity to fully |
| 1:49.7 | showcase his talent for both dance and choreography, including the story behind his freestyle dance |
| 1:55.6 | and what that piece meant to him personally. He opens up about what it was like partnering |
| 2:00.1 | with Olympian Jordan |
| 2:01.2 | Childs, navigating the intense scrutiny, discord, and hate on social media, and the boundaries he's |
| 2:07.1 | learned to set online to protect his peace. Asra also shares how he keeps his love for dance alive, |
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