POSE & Ballroom Culture (w/ POSE creator/ writer Steven Canals)

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Jess is joined by the co-creator / writer / director of the FX series POSE — STEVEN CANALS! Canals discusses the series’ inspiration via the landmark documentary PARIS IS BURNING and getting his script into the hands of RYAN MURPHY. We discuss ballroom culture, Houses, MADONNA, “Vogue,” and the song choices used throughout. We also discuss the casting of MJ RODRIGUEZ (Blanca), INDYA MOORE (Angel) and SANDRA BERNHARD.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives and I am here with the Emmy-nominated co-creator
0:20.9	executive producer, writer and director of probably my favorite scripted series over
0:27.4	the last five or six years pose. It's Stephen Kennells. Hey, Stephen. I don't know if my reps
0:35.7	told you this, but while I was filming the third season, I discovered your videos on
0:44.0	YouTube because I live on YouTube and I'm obsessed with the real world. So I was watching
0:49.2	your interviews with like, you did Camila, which I think was like one of my favorite.
0:54.5	You interviewed a bunch of people, so I was like obsessed. So when this came through, I was like,
0:57.7	um, yeah, I have to talk to Jess because I love that show so much. Oh my God, that's so funny.
1:03.3	Thank you. Yeah, I had a Mohammed on from San Francisco as well. Can we do a little,
1:09.8	let me do a little plug for myself here. A little commercial for all you real-world fan
1:14.1	likes, Stephen, who discovered me that way. Dig back in the archives for like I said,
1:19.2	Mohammed from San Francisco. Who else Camila from Boston? Irene from Seattle,
1:25.2	Danny and Melissa from New Orleans. Of course, Genesis, my queen from Boston, who was like the whole,
1:31.4	the holdout dream guest up for this podcast for two years before that came into fresh. Yeah,
1:37.1	that was a really good one as well. Oh my God. So this was while you were shooting the third season.
1:42.3	While we were filming our third season of the show, anytime I had like a break, whether it was
1:47.2	like between setups or like, you know, if we had like a lunch hour, like I would go into my office
1:52.5	and I would just, I always pop on to YouTube and that's just a place I go to. And so anyway,
1:57.4	in the process of that, that's how I discovered your show. And so, and I was loving it. Unbelievable.
2:04.5	So for anybody who hasn't seen Pose, it's three seasons. It's still streaming on FX and Amazon.
2:11.4	It was on Netflix, but it got pulled in some merger. Steven, I want to talk to you about everything.
2:17.8	Paris's burning, ballroom culture, the history of the houses, Madonna's impact with Vogue,
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