8 Biggest Moments from Billy Porter's Vulture Festival Chat, Including Revelations About Broadway Casting

Billy talked about being typecast in Grease

“It took me 25 years to dig myself out of the hole that I buried myself in just simply with that visual…It’s like I’m already gay. I’m already Black. I’m already gay. And now you’ve turned me into this magical fairy, magical and pigeon-holy. I didn’t come here for that. I didn’t go to Carnegie Mellon to study drama, drama like everybody else that y’all love like the Meryl Streeps and Viola Davises and all of that sh-t. I went to school like that. And then y’all turned me into a clown because it’s easy. He sings real high. He’s a little sissy. You know, so That’s it. You know, And so it took me from 1994 till 2010 when I was finally cast in the revival of Angels in America in the role of Belize to change that around.”