Warning: This article contains spoilers from thePoseseason 2 finale, In My Heels.
Its looking like a whole different world for the next season ofPose.
The second season finale of the FX series found the entire House of Evangelista basically going their separate ways.
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Damon (Ryan Jamaal Swain) continued his ever-growing career in dance.
Even Ricky (Dyllon Burnside) landed a gig on Paula Abduls new tour (LOL).
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: House of Evangelista basically no longer exists in the way that we knew it.
Everyone else anchors around her but shes kind of the central force.
Theyre going to grow up and move on.
And I think its something that most parents do and so we kind of knew that.
And it ends up with her alone.
Its about her questioning her mortality, her questioning her purpose and dreams.
Its, My purpose is done.
I can move on now because I aint got no kids.
And its like, Girl, theres more kids.
Theres many more kids.
We havent talked specifically about season three at all.
And so, what will happen is that this will air and well see what everyone feels.
Well go to the Emmys, have a nice celebration, you know, be in a room together.
We broke this [story] over a morning at his home in New York.
And he was like, But it has to be like a short song.
And then I was just like, When did Whitney Houston sing The Star-Spangled Banner?
I think it was in 1991.
He was like, Oh my God!
Can we do that?
Is it politically okay for, you know, people of color, to sing The Star-Spangled Banner?
And then I was like, Its a reclaiming its fine.
This is our country as well.
We deserve to take up space.
This is ours.And then we see her children behind her kneeling and looking at her.
It was definitely me and Ryan just kind of like, Is this ridiculous?
Do we do this??
And its his favorite thing hes watched it like 20 times.
What was it like shooting the men doing the ballroom challenge?
Were not doing that.
Then for the finale, I think he just was tired.
He just let my pitch go.
I brought it back out again.
Why arent they there anymore?
Obviously, House of Evangelistas not together anymore.
So theyre not showing up to every ball.
Elektra has other things.
She has her own family theyre not really going to the balls.
And so we tried to make it a conversation about sexism and misogyny.
Then, of course, we want to do it in a fun way.
I was so blown away by Mjs performance in this episode.
Is there something youre particularly proud of as the director of the finale?Its Mjs performance.
We have all these other great characters and even Billy says it.
He was like, My performance hangs on her.
It hangs on Blancas story.
And she showed up and she did it.
And I like the ways in which we reclaimed certain things like recording The Star-Spangled Banner.
I love that as well.
It makes sense her children are grown.
Theyll come and go.
Family dinner may be bigger.
I dont know if Angel and Papi will have kids of their own.
I dont know what their home lives are going to look like.
