“Question me at your own peril.”

by Anonymous

reply 1

April 19, 2023 10:09 PM

Why at this point in his career is he still playing victim?

by Anonymous

reply 3

April 19, 2023 10:13 PM

No one cares about this clown.

Hi, Billy! (Since I know you're the type of person who has an hourly google alert on his own name.)

by Anonymous

reply 4

April 19, 2023 10:18 PM

One thing I do doubt is his Sarah Huckabeast smokey eye shadow in the pic of him up top.

by Anonymous

reply 5

April 19, 2023 10:21 PM

James Baldwin would hate Billy Porter.

by Anonymous

reply 6

April 19, 2023 10:23 PM

[quote] “People Have Been Doubting Me My Whole Life”

And rightfully so.

by Anonymous

reply 7

April 19, 2023 10:27 PM

He's annoyed me as far back as The Broken Hearts Club.

by Anonymous

reply 8

April 19, 2023 10:28 PM

I love the Bjork 'do.

He must fancy himself a little Scandinavian girl.

by Anonymous

reply 9

April 19, 2023 10:29 PM

I go back even further than you, R8. I had the misfortune of seeing him plat Teen Angel in the '94 revival of Grease. He was a big, fat untalented ham even back then.

by Anonymous

reply 10

April 19, 2023 10:30 PM

[quote] During an appearance on The Tamron Hall Show, Porter hit back at critics saying, “First and foremost, the internet has created a space where it’s made people think that their opinion matters at all — it doesn’t. I am 53 years old and I’ve dedicated my life to my art and my craft."

If their opinions don't matter, then why is he having a hissy fit?

by Anonymous

reply 11

April 19, 2023 10:30 PM

He's a professional male hysteric.

by Anonymous

reply 12

April 19, 2023 10:32 PM

James Baldwin deserves nothing but pure class. Someone like Barry Jenkins, but an actor.

by Anonymous

reply 13

April 19, 2023 10:34 PM

[quote] “Question me at your own peril.”

Spoken like Queen Circe--his real dream part!

by Anonymous

reply 14

April 19, 2023 11:02 PM

He’s perfect for James Baldwin: black, gay, and exhausting.

by Anonymous

reply 15

April 19, 2023 11:17 PM

Bow down, bitches - BOW DOWN!

by Anonymous

reply 17

April 19, 2023 11:24 PM

I look forward to the Oscar nomination.

DataLounge nearly imploded over Lady Activia’s campaign season…we are not ready for Billy Porter.

Calling it now: a red carpet look, followed by a change into demure audience attire that has a secret tab to reveal ANOTHER look as he walks to accepts his statuette.

by Anonymous

reply 19

April 19, 2023 11:34 PM

“It’s alright. Call it whatever you want, arrogant… whatever you want. I’ve worked hard for this,” he continued.

Well, he does know about arrogance. I’ll give him that.

by Anonymous

reply 20

April 19, 2023 11:37 PM

[quote]I do not now, nor will I ever, adjudicate my life or humanity in sound bites on social media. I’m going to focus on the work — that’s all I can do.

He's talking about you tired queens. There's literally no "hissyfit" here. This is a response to a question on a talk show. He said he doesn't give a shit about you, and he's literally working on the actual script, something half a dozen other have tried to do and never finished. I mean, how dare he do actual work?

by Anonymous

reply 21

April 19, 2023 11:41 PM

I’ve always found Baldwin, in appearance and in his writing to be sensual and sexy and passionate, always effortlessly so.

And effortlessness is an alien concept to Porter.

by Anonymous

reply 23

April 19, 2023 11:44 PM

Straight people are like moths to Billy Porter's flame!

He is precisely the kind of Queer of Color who checks off all their boxes and leaves them dazzled!

Yawn. Make it stop.

by Anonymous

reply 25

April 20, 2023 2:01 AM

He’s still around? I will never ever ever ever ever ever ever watch anything that he is in. Ever.

by Anonymous

reply 26

April 20, 2023 2:36 AM

He lives speaking “his power”. Apparently no one’s allowed to have an opinion except him. That whole “question me at your own peril” is overconfident, faux black intellect speak that he no doubt rehearses in the bathtub before every appearance. Black people in America are enraged that white people have started to question them and dare see them as something more than coddled victim class. Years of yelling “RACISM!” has finally backfired. Billy Porter is an example of that and people are only going to grow more tired of him.. Seethe racist black queens. SEETHE! LOL!!

by Anonymous

reply 27

April 20, 2023 2:58 AM

Billy is one of the most talented actor-singers ever. He's also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout his life. Despite that, he has a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Hollywood. In these times when gay people are oppressed beyond belief, we identify with his struggles and he ours.

by Anonymous

reply 28

April 20, 2023 3:08 AM

Did James Baldwin ever wear fabulous dresses?

by Anonymous

reply 29

April 20, 2023 3:08 AM

...and if Billy's bio doesn't get raves, big bucks, and awards, will he react like the other Billy we love so much here?

by Anonymous

reply 30

April 20, 2023 3:21 AM

Really unfortunate that Don Cheadle, who has the right facial features and body type, and who is a real actor who no doubt could embody Baldwin brilliantly, doesn't have the chance to do so and this tiresome stunt queen does.

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reply 31

April 20, 2023 3:55 AM

I want a Billy Porter, Viola Davis, Jada Pinkett Smith movie. Mmmmmm, yes I do.

by Anonymous

reply 32

April 20, 2023 4:01 AM

I agree R31. Don Cheadle is great.

by Anonymous

reply 33

April 20, 2023 4:13 AM

I don’t understand why he is so hated on here. He is a big queeny man. They do still exist. And yes he can act. I’ve seen him in the Get Down and Law & Order SVU.

by Anonymous

reply 34

April 20, 2023 4:48 AM

R28, what TF are you smoking?

by Anonymous

reply 35

April 20, 2023 4:56 AM

[quote] "Did James Baldwin ever wear fabulous dresses?"

He didn't need to, R29. He had intelligence, and discernable talent.

by Anonymous

reply 36

April 20, 2023 5:01 AM

The only thing I've ever seen him in is an episode of Law and Order SVU.

He was a ham

by Anonymous

reply 37

April 20, 2023 5:02 AM

He seems high maintenance.

by Anonymous

reply 38

April 20, 2023 5:27 AM

[quote] And yes he can act.

No, he can "perform" but that does not mean he can act. He's the male Jennifer Hudson. The only difference is Billy uses "haughty fabulousness" to approximate a performance, whereas Jennifer Hudson just says her lines while she gives a 1000 yard stare because they aren't making it into her brain. Neither can act. One just knows how to fool the hayseeds a little better.

by Anonymous

reply 39

April 20, 2023 6:31 AM

I'd love to see Cheadle as Baldwin too.

by Anonymous

reply 40

April 20, 2023 6:49 AM

I wouldn't. Out gay actor for the role, please.

by Anonymous

reply 41

April 20, 2023 7:08 AM

Why, if Don Cheadle is the best option for the role? That's a really stupid concept, only out gay actors can play gay roles. Who gives a fuck? Don Cheadle is a wonderful actor and an Oscar and Emmy nominee. He's got a bigger name than Billy Porter and he's a way better actor.

And by the way, if you say only out gay actors should play gay roles, then surely you believe that only openly straight actors should play straight roles. It's the exact same concept.

by Anonymous

reply 42

April 20, 2023 8:27 AM

The 2 Billy's - Porter and Eichner - have that same issue of trying way too hard to the point it becomes insufferable, and then it turns you off from the work. Just let the actual work speak for itself. If it's good, then people will get it. But trying to beat folks over the head with it before it's even made or released doesn't work.

by Anonymous

reply 43

April 20, 2023 8:34 AM

I agree with the above, he’s a performer and not an actor. Carol Burnet and Dolly Parton are the same.

by Anonymous

reply 44

April 20, 2023 1:31 PM

I'm pretty sure "adjudicate" doesn't mean what Billy thinks it does.

by Anonymous

reply 45

April 20, 2023 1:40 PM

Do Baldwin's estate/family have a say in who plays Baldwin.?Such a seminal figure. as a gay man of color. Billy wrong on sooooo many levels for this role. Hope it won't tarnish Baldwin's halo.

by Anonymous

reply 46

April 20, 2023 2:32 PM

Sounds like Billy is the one who doubts his talent. If he didn't he wouldn't care what anyone else thinks.

by Anonymous

reply 47

April 20, 2023 3:07 PM

She is ugly both inside and out.

by Anonymous

reply 48

April 20, 2023 3:11 PM

Apparently both immature and coddled, he needs to think more realistically.

by Anonymous

reply 49

April 20, 2023 3:13 PM

[quote]Sounds like Billy is the one who doubts his talent. If he didn't he wouldn't care what anyone else thinks.

He literally said he doesn't care what other people think.

[quote]Apparently no one’s allowed to have an opinion except him.

He never said no one is allowed to have an opinion. Saying "I don't give a shit about other people's opinions" does NOT mean "they cannot have an opinion" This is the same logic Trumpers use whenever they're criticized.

by Anonymous

reply 50

April 20, 2023 4:05 PM

Don Cheadle???

Are you fucking kidding me? The man was a regular on THE GOLDEN PALACE for God’s sake!

I am a star, people!

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by Anonymous

reply 51

April 21, 2023 12:59 AM

Baldwin was an intellectual and Porter is a cross dresser. I don’t see how a performer, not an actor, whose specialty is gender-bending fashion, can portray one of this country’s most important thinkers.

by Anonymous

reply 52

April 21, 2023 1:04 AM

That he's writing the screenplay is more worrisome to me than the acting. Maybe a good director can wrangle a decent performance. Will this even get made? Also within the category of black, gay-themed films, HBO is supposedly going to make movies of Invisible Life and other E. Lynn Harris novels, but I haven't seen much since they announced it over a year ago.

by Anonymous

reply 53

April 21, 2023 1:15 AM

HBO went through a lot of changes in the past year. I wouldn't necessarily expect anything like that to still be in development.

Further, does anyone really want to see E Lynn Harris novels turned into film? If anyone would take him on it would be Starz or Peacock, both of which are really gunning for black customers.

by Anonymous

reply 54

April 21, 2023 1:25 AM

R54, I would, for a couple reasons, but I'm not sure there's a huge market for it. If James Earl Hardy's B Boy Blues can make it to film (though it didn't do much); I'd like to think Invisible Life could. I was in college when it came out and it was such an iconic book among black gay men, and maybe a bit beyond. I'm interested simply to see what they'd do with it. I'd also like to see if it can be improved. It's an important book to me, but rereading it recently, it's really not well written. But that was part of the charm I guess.

by Anonymous

reply 55

April 21, 2023 1:33 AM

[quote] "I want a Billy Porter, Viola Davis, Jada Pinkett Smith movie. Mmmmmm, yes I do."

I want the documentary about the making of that movie.

by Anonymous

reply 57

April 21, 2023 6:40 PM

R39 I disagree but I love your assessment of his “no talent” in your eyes. I really like the way u laid that down. My friends say I’m biased when it comes to black and/or gay performers because I feel protective of them.

Now Queen Latifah that’s a non acting thot.

by Anonymous

reply 58

April 21, 2023 7:10 PM

He still better not be kissing no man on screen.

by Anonymous

reply 59

April 21, 2023 7:11 PM

[quote] In these times when gay people are oppressed beyond belief, we identify with his struggles and he ours.

Oppressed beyond belief? Not in the USA. We’ve never had it better.

by Anonymous

reply 60

April 21, 2023 7:35 PM

This is far more soothing than having to listen to another Billy Porter interview.

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reply 61

April 21, 2023 7:43 PM