BILLY PORTER

The Pose star talks Jordan Peele and The Twilight Zone

- Adam Tanswell 

When Billy Porter laughs, the whole room lights up. Except in this case, the whole Zoom lights up, because we’re in the middle of a pandemic and Porter is doing an hour of press from the comfort of his home in New York. “I feel like this whole experience is a global reset,” the actor laments. “What we’re living through right now is weird. It’s disturbing and unnerving. I don’t know what else to say about it. It’s like we’re living in The Twilight Zone.” Those last three words are rather apt seeing that we’re on Zoom to talk about Porter’s role in a new episode of Jordan Peele’s rebooted anthology series. The Emmy Award-winning actor and singer plays a clairvoyant called Keith in a body-swapping episode of the second season titled “The Who Of You”. Before more contagious laughter bursts through the airwaves, we quickly rattle off a few questions to the star of Pose and American Horror Story.

With everything that’s happened in 2020, are we living in the real world?