Billy Porter’s ‘Pose’ costars and celeb friends gift him with lip-sync video
Billy Porter’s latest dance single is titled “Love Yourself,” but a ton of other celebrities are feeling the love for the Emmy winner, too.
For the track’s music video, many of Porter’s Pose costars and famous friends lip-sync along to the affirmation anthem, which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.
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You’ll see Pose stars MJ Rodriguez, Ryan Jamal Swain, Dyllón Burnside, Jeremy McClain, and Jason A. Rodriguez. You’ll see Porter’s Kinky Boots costars collaborators Cyndi Lauper, Jerry Mitchell, Stark Sands, and Annaleigh Ashford, as well as the cast of the Ogunquit Playhouse production of the Broadway musical. You’ll see the cast of the Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud. And you’ll see Nathan Lee Graham, Miss J, Peppermint, Christian Siriano, Patina Miller, Kelly Ripa, Debra Messing, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
“What a gift it is to be celebrated by my peers and afforded a moment for me to reflect. I don’t get a lot of time to do that,” Porter said in a statement, per PEOPLE. “How blessed I feel to have lived long enough to see this day. Thank you, everybody! Thank you for listening! The category is … LOVE.”
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Porter, who married husband Adam Smith in 2017, has been on a roll lately: He won a Tony for Kinky Boots in 2013, he became the first openly gay black man to a lead drama actor Emmy earlier this year, he’ll appear in the comedy film Like a Boss next month, and he’s gearing up to play the Fairy Godmother in a big-screen adaptation of Cinderellaopposite Camila Cabello and Idina Menzel.
