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Rose drag queen11/24/2023 Speaking of the U.K., you look at Bimini over there, Bimini's fully in photo shoots every day, tons of magazines spreads. Drag is just becoming so normal, which is ferocious for queer people. Drag is really, really informing and participating in fashion. I think we're going to see a lot more drag on Broadway, on the bigger stages. And so people like me, who have been practicing their whole lives, performing onstage, I think we're going to see a lot more drag on scripted television. It's so widely accepted that it's easier and more accessible to have a truly stable and lucrative and successful career in drag. A lot of the people who are beginning drag journeys now are like me. Because in a year where so many things stood still, drag and Drag Race continued, and continued to blossom and evolve. I think at this point, we are living in the future of drag. What do you think is the future of drag? Drag is always changing, it's always evolving. Once it's a bit safer and normal to travel overseas, I think it'd be really, really fun to go back to Scotland and do a show with Lawrence. I've never met Lawrence, I've spoken to Lawrence a few times, just via messaging and stuff, but Lawrence is an incredible queen, and I think it would be so fun if we both won. And she's got a purple reign, I have a pink reign. Like just fucking all over the world, Scottish queens reigning supreme. How would that feel for you? Wouldn't that be amazing? Oh, my God. Lawrence Chaney just won Drag Race UK, so if you won, it'd be the reign of the Scots. But gratefully in the last few months of the second half of the season, the fans, the outpouring of love and support has been really tremendous and intense, and it's been so worth it. So it's interesting the fans are a powerful bunch and it's interesting how it can affect you. When the season started airing, I had to revisit and be the person that people were seeing on-screen that was the person who failed at the beginning and who was stumbling and had to try and get out of their head. I had really triumphed and persevered, and I was so proud and I felt so powerful. When we filmed, I left that Top Four episode and felt like I was on top of the world. I kind of knew, because of my trajectory, what would essentially happen as far as the fan base goes, and I was right, but it's different. Everything is different when it plays back, and we have no experience being thrust so quickly in the public eye like this prior to the show. Besides that, how has the fan reaction been for you, specifically the positive feedback, and was it different than you expected? You know, it has been different. I've been somebody who's attentive to detail and who really cares about the product that they are working on and putting out there. But it reminded me of who I've always been. As opposed to in normal life, I can get everything to a standard that I think everything should be in a performance, the way something sounds, the way something looks, and then just let it go and let what happens happen.īut Drag Race was just different, and it was really weird to hear that criticism. I'm definitely a perfectionist, but I think outside of the largest drag competition in the world and the stakes of my most incredible dream perhaps coming true, in the midst of that, I focused in a little too hard and just really didn't want to fuck up. I'm not somebody who really lives in that idea that everything needs to be perfect. It was interesting when we filmed on the show as well because the entire thing was a learning experience, and I was being given critiques that might be laughable by my audience in New York. How you would respond to those people? It's been really interesting. There's no doubt that you slayed this season, but I think it's interesting seeing the critiques about you being too perfect, whatever that means. I feel like if that happened to me, I would just buckle down twice as hard.
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