Golden Globe winner Michaela Jaé Rodriguez is at peace with the fact that 'Pose' will not return for a fourth season: 'We explained the experience of Black trans women to the best of our ability. And now it lives on television forever.'
Soon it carried her all the way from Newark’s Arts High School to Berklee College of Music, where she dreamed of becoming an R&B star. But Rodriguez left Berklee after one year to star as Angel in an off-Broadway production ofIt’s been previously reported that playing Angel helped her come to terms with her gender identity, but Rodriguez would like to set the record straight about that.
“When I was playing Angel, that was not the first time I actually discovered my gender identity,” she says. “I was seven years old when I had an affirmation of myself. When I startedtransitioning. But I already had a self-assuredness of my femininity and womanhood when I was seven years old.”’s House of Evangelista, Rodriguez tapped into that self-assuredness and femininity. When it was announced that Ryan Murphy’s drama would not return for a fourth season, Rodriguez was at peace with it. “I feel like it ended at the right time,” she says. “I feel like we crossed the’s, and we explained the experience of Black trans women to the best of our ability. And now it lives on television forever.”has come to an end, Rodriguez’s career is ramping up. She has released her first single, “Something to Say”—a summery, Janet Jackson–esque bop—and promises that her first EP will arrive this year. She’s landed the role of Sofia, a hardworking nonprofit director, in Maya Rudolph’s hotly anticipated untitled Apple TV+ comedy and recently appeared as Carolyn, a waitress and Jonathan Larson pal, in Netflix’sAbout a month before that film hit Netflix, Dave Chappelle stoked controversy on the same platform by telling transphobic jokes in his stand-up specialRodriguez was unfazed. “Listen,” she says very deliberately. “I’m a girl from Brick. City. I’m a girl from Newark. New Jersey. Is this on the record?” It is, yes. “I’ve had a lot of things that came my way. There was nothing that stopped me—slurs or whatever opinion somebody had about how I lived—it had nothing to do withIt was always with them.” So when the Chappelle special was released, “I had nothing to say to it because I didn’t watch it. Also, I had to keep pumping for my girls. I couldn’t let someone’s opinion or their thought process or even their comedy about the trans community deter me, because the moment I let that happen, they win.… The girls are going to keep pumping no matter what.” “I still have not watched it to this day,” Rodriguez says. “But,” she adds with a smile, “I’ve been busy.”HAIR, BARRY LEE MOE; MAKEUP, ALLAN AVENDAÑO; MANICURE, EMI KUDO; TAILOR, CAROLA BRONISLAVA JAKUBOWSKA. SET DESIGN, STEFAN BECKMAN. VIDEO DIRECTED BY CATERINA VIGANÒ; DOP, DOMINIC HAYDN RAWLE; VFX AND COLOR GRADING, SIMONE ROVELLINI, ISABELLA FORNASIERO; SOUND DESIGN AND MIX, SMIDER. PRODUCED ON LOCATION BY PRODN AT ART + COMMERCE. FOR DETAILS, GO TO VF.COM/CREDITS., the actor shouldered superhuman expectations with aplomb. Now he contends with the responsibilities—and revelations—of being a star.
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