Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorShooting Candy’s funeral scene on season two of “Pose” resonated in many ways with the cast and crew.Candy, played by Angelica Ross, was murdered by a john in a seedy motel room during the season’s fourth episode.Her funeral was filmed the same day the cast found out that a 23-year-old Black trans woman named Muhlaysia Booker was shot and killed in Dallas a month after cellphone footage showing a group of men attacking her made national news.“Before we started filming, I brought into the room with me — into the funeral scene — a list of names.
Before we started filming, I read all of the names of the trans women who had died that year,” Ross said while tearing up during Variety’s.
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