Billy Porter and Eva Reign take on the high school rom-com

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Eva Reign stepped onto the set of “ Anything’s Possible ” for the first time almost exactly a year ago. “She stuck out to me because there is a grounded and mature energy to her that is beyond Kelsa’s years,” Porter said. “I really felt like for the first time seeing this archetype in the mainstream marketplace, we needed a leader to guide us through this tale who was grounded and mature — probably more mature than what you would think a traditional 17-year-old would be.” Porter was a grounding force for Reign throughout the process, encouraging her to embrace the full range of her voice which she’d been made to feel self-conscious about in the theater. But, she said, her high school experience in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, was “a little bit rougher.” “I was this budding trans person at the time, and a lot of people couldn’t quite figure me out,” she said.