ANGELICA ROSS.
Angelica Ross is a busy woman. Not only has she been starring as Candy Ferocity in FX’s groundbreaking series Pose, she’s just jumped over to Ryan Murphy’s other successful series American Horror Story for its ninth run when it returns this autumn. Oh, and amongst all that she’s moving apartment.
“It’s a lot of things,” she says, speaking to us on the phone from Los Angeles where she’s in her car on her way to her next appointment. Angelica’s not complaining at all though, adding that she loves being “booked and busy” – and following her standout performance in Pose, we suspect it’s going to be that way for some time yet.
We are living in a golden age of television and at its centre Pose is a drama shining brighter than any other show out there right now. Centring around the ballroom scene in 1980s New York City, it assembled the largest cast and crew of trans actors, producers and writers a drama series has ever seen. In fact, almost the entirety of the actors at the forefront of the series are LGBTQ. And as the consistently positive reviews and numerous Emmy nominations suggest, putting LGBTQ people at the centre of LGBTQ narratives provides the best results.
This was no better showcased on television than in a recent episode of Pose where Candy was the focus of the story. With the show in its second season and the timeline up to 1990 during the peak of
