‘Pose’ Helmer Janet Mock Discusses Stigma-Shattering Directorial Debut, & “The Power Of Giving People A Chance”

, Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals. The series has broken new ground for LGBTQ storytelling—specifically around trans people of color and the destigmatization of HIV—and continues Murphy’s pledge to be a driver of representation on screen. The episode titled “Love Is the Message” marked Mock’s directorial debut, and it was received with tremendous critical acclaim.’s first season marked your first time behind the camera.

There is a moment where she asks Patty [Kate Mara], “Do you think he can love you and love me too?” That’s so complicated. I remember being in those spaces. Not in that same way, but in the sense of being with partners when I was younger who kept me as a secret and then had a girlfriend in the daytime. And so that part of that piece, I know that so many trans and queer people know how that feels, to be loved in secret, to be loved in the dark.

My favorite musical moment in that episode beyond “Home” is when Blanca is at the ball and Darius is whispering in her ear; he says, “I’ll see you at six o’clock,” and that Whitney Houston song comes on. I literally screamed when I saw the cut of it because it wasn’t scripted in there. That’s the genius of our executive producer Alexis Martin Woodall.

I remember the first time that I ever got praised for it, and that was when Ryan called me after he saw the director’s cut. He said, “Janet, this is probably going to be the best, most important hour of television I’ve ever produced in my career.” I remember him then saying it again publicly before the episode even came out, on stage at the Trailblazers event for VH1, where he was being honored. I was too close to the material to know that it was that good, so I wracked myself with self-doubt.

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