Pose‘s final season, series creator Steven Canals has opened up about the difficulty in getting the show made, the decision to end it after three seasons, and the original, much darker concept for the story.In a new interview with DigitalSpy, Canals reiterated that it took years to get Pose greenlit.
Agents, studio bosses, and just about everyone else discouraged him from trying to make a show about the ballroom scene.“I would say about 50% were giving me some version of: ‘It’s going to be really hard.
It’s very Black, it’s very brown, it’s queer, it’s trans, it’s a period piece,'” he says of his pitch meetings. “But then there was a smaller group that was very direct, saying, ‘No one’s ever going to give you the money or trust you need to.