The theater environment provides a sacred space that allows actors to express intense emotions through their characters.

“And like without knowing it, you do the same thing in passage on the way out. And I think just the a the ability to do that, you know, has created for me a sense of technique, you know, and and there's a threshold and I'm like, okay, you're like you're you're doing this thing and what's on that stag”

A stage actor must possess discipline, a love for the craft, and the specific muscle required to maintain a commanding presence before a live audience.

“But it's it's also as as you're probably finding out you have to have a muscle for it. You have to have a discipline for it and you have to have a love for it to to do it.”

Billy Porter believes that it is the job of an artist to disturb the peace.

“James Baldwin said it's an artist's job to disturb the peace and as you all know I take my job very seriously”