.AngelicaRoss, from the TV series 'Pose,' will make history in her Broadway debut as the first openly transgender lead in ChicagoMusical. DaveCarlinTV spoke to her about joining the show and her LGBTQ+ activism.
Ross recently posted to Twitter video of her rehearsing the show's finale. The LGBTQ+ rights activist, and star of TV's"Pose" and"American Horror Story," says she loves joining a small but growing group of trans performers conquering Broadway. This is a first for"Chicago."
"It's definitely time for the change," Ross said."Changing the world, changing the face of who we get to see as talented ... As a trans woman I think that at the end of the day, you kind of realize you have to be your own best friend. You have to love yourself first." Ross admits to Carlin at first, she was not sure about this Broadway leap, so she went to a Broadway legend -- a star of stage and screen that she describes as her mentor -- an original"Dreamgirl," Sheryl Lee Ralph.
"I said, 'Sheryl, I gotta ask you a question. You know, I got this opportunity, this offer," Ross said."And I told her it was 'Chicago,' playing Roxie, and she said, and you know, dramatic Sheryl, she was just like, 'Oh honey, no you don't.' She was like, 'You are going to take this role.' She was like, 'This is for you.
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