Janet Mock goes off in wild speech at the Pose premiere party

[BUtterfield 8 41,374]

Janet Mock, an executive producer and director on the FX drama “Pose,” left co-stars, network bosses and reporters stunned at the show’s premiere party Thursday night by ad-libbing a wide-ranging and flabbergastingly fiery speech.

During the 15-minute speech, she complained about how much the network is paying her, demanded better treatment for the trans community, shouted “F-ck Hollywood,” revealed that she’d slept with someone in the show’s crew, asked her “Pose” actor boyfriend not to leave her over the infidelity, decried the quality of the writing on the show, and had a brief conversation with co-creator and Hollywood mogul Ryan Murphy from the stage.

Early in her talk, Mock, 38, wondered aloud, “Why am I making $40,000 an episode? Huh?” 

“I am angry!,” she said, demanding more money and perks equal to other TV executives. 

The room at Jazz at Lincoln Center fell completely silent as Mock shouted: “F–k Hollywood … Does this make you uncomfortable? It should. It should make you f–king shake in your motherf–king boots. This is speaking truth. This is what ‘Pose’ is.”

Mock next complained about the quality of the material from male writers on the show’s first two episodes, then addressed Murphy, saying that “you brought … girls in to help you.” 

“Who brought the girls in?,” she asked him. “I did,” Murphy replied, “I wanted the girls to be there.”

But the speech took an even more personal turn when Mock demanded that boyfriend Angel Bismark Curiel “stand up … right now!”

Bismark Curiel nervously stood up, and Mock said to the crowd, “Let me tell you something about love.”

“Today, I was gonna let [Angel] go,” she said. “I was gonna let you go, right, but what did I do? I f–ked someone on the crew, right?”

At that revelation, one of the show’s guest stars could be heard gasping and asked, “What the hell is happening?”

“Angel, Angel. I’m not losing you. You hear me? You are f–king important to me,” Mock continued. “I don’t want to live in a house alone. I want you. You motherf–ker. Right there. That’s who I want. I’m getting what’s mine.”

Mock then apologized to composer Our Lady J — a producer and writer on “Pose” — and said she’d tried to diminish her to “make myself bigger.”

“I f–ked up, y’all. I forgot who the f–k I was. They want me to come up here and pretend,” she said. “I don’t need Hollywood, honey. You know why? Cuz I’m f–king free.” 

Mock provided some inspirational words for cast members — including Dominique Jackson, Indya Moore and the show’s lead, MJ Rodriguez — before turning her attention back to the industry at large. 

“It’s a show, but it means so much to everyone to ‘ensure that we enable black and brown trans women to make it’ because that sounds good,” she said sarcastically. “It makes you comfortable to talk like that because then I don’t scare you into facing the f–king truth. You all have stomped on us.”

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[thatfoxyfeeling 13,006]

“Why am I making $40,000 an episode? Huh?” Gurlll 

[BUtterfield 8 41,374]

Just now, thatfoxyfeeling said:

“Why am I making $40,000 an episode? Huh?” Gurlll 

To be fair that is very low compared to her peers

 

[SevenWonder 4,318]

Hmmm. Pissing off Murphy (for no reason it seems), admitting to screwing around on set, being pissed that you "only" make 40k on a low rated cable series, throwing the writers under the bus (actors NEVER learn not to do this)?

Not what I would do.

Grrl better get it together. 

[thatfoxyfeeling 13,006]

3 minutes ago, BUtterfield 8 said:

To be fair that is very low compared to her peers

 

It's the first time she has directed, produced and written for a tv show it's not like she has a massive resume with experience. Ryan has given her the opportunity and she also signed a deal with Netflix for her own tv show. 

[Ricardo 7,809]

what a mess  

say goodbye to your career chica

[GucciGa 3,729]

I'm glad people are side eyeing her here. I was expecting lots of "yassss queen"... I don't watch POSE or know anything about JM so to me that speech came off as unhinged.. Begging her bf not to leave her... Wtf? 

[PEZ 6,227]

27 minutes ago, BUtterfield 8 said:

“Today, I was gonna let [Angel] go,” she said. “I was gonna let you go, right, but what did I do? I f–ked someone on the crew, right?”

At that revelation, one of the show’s guest stars could be heard gasping and asked, “What the hell is happening?”

“Angel, Angel. I’m not losing you. You hear me?”

 Damn girl, what are you doing? What would possess someone to air this out in front of a roomful of people? I would be beet red with embarrassment overhearing something that private and messy

[weed 73,734]

11 minutes ago, BUtterfield 8 said:

To be fair that is very low compared to her peers

 

do you have/know where I can see the numbers? 

[Saint Hollywood 37,364]

Oh wow… I was definitely NOT expecting all of that

[Reginald 13,841]

 This is so messy, I love it 

[Glamourpuss 29,062]

If this is real and not some messed up publicity stunt then I feel sorry for her boyfriend who she just humiliated in front of everyone. 

Also the rest of the article explains her immediate remorse and it appears that she's completely destroyed her career. I can't see how she can come back from this. 

[Guest]

You’d think at this point that people would learn not to do this. Yes it’s unfair that this will ruin her career but people don’t want a loose canon like this. There’s no reason she couldn’t have pulled Ryan or someone else aside & had a discussion with them. Whatever though idc lmao

[isMusic 629]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO janet!! it sounds like a mental breakdown  i'm concerned for her wellbeing 

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

Well she just committed career suicide...