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Digital Spy about his original plans for the pilot episode, and how it could have led the show in a very different direction.
The show follows New York City s African American and Latino LGBTQ+ community during the drag ball scene of the 1980s and 1990s. Detailing how much of his original pitch actually made it on screen, Canals revealed that he and co-creator Ryan Murphy wrote four or five different versions of the pilot before they eventually filmed it. I m a perpetual rewriter, Canals admitted. So that pilot, I was always going back in and tinkering and changing. But the core journey was the same, which is that there s a young Black boy, named Damon, who gets kicked out of his house for being gay. He moves to New York, then gets enmeshed in the ball scene, and gets caught in a war between two house mothers.
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Ahead of the third and final season of Pose premiering, series co-creator Steven Canals teased that fans would be getting introduced to the backstory of one Elektra Evangelista. The ballroom icon has carried the House of Evangelista on her back for two seasons now, even leaving at one point to start the House of Wintour, but we didn t find out much about how she became the woman she is. A new teaser clip from episode three alludes to looking into her relationship with her biological mother.
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Pose You re never going to get this made. It s never going to happen.
After 166 meetings with various TV executives, Steven Canals was tired of hearing words to this effect. I would say about 50% were giving me some version of: It s going to be really hard. It s very Black, it s very brown, it s queer, it s trans, it s a period piece. But then there was a smaller group that was very direct, saying, No one s ever going to give you the money or trust you need to get this to the finish line.
Thankfully, Steven proved these executives wrong, and by doing so, he ended up creating one of the most important shows ever made. Because