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Todrick Hall on Having to Work 'Three Times' Harder Than White Artists to Find Success

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Todrick Hall is glad that he's made it, but he has some thoughts on the effort it took for him to get to where he is now. In a new exclusive clip from Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter's Pride Summit & Pride Prom, the cover star of Billboard's Pride issue talks with Pose executive producer Steven Canals about the advice he received during his first Broadway stint in 2005's The Color Purple.

Hall says that the experienced Broadway actors he got to work with in the show gave him a wake-up call about the reality of show business for queer man of color. "They straight up told me, 'In order for you to make it in this industry, you have to be three times as talented as your white counterparts,'" he recalls. "[They said] 'You're going to have

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