What a Drag it is Being a Queen

My friend and colleague, Clay Cane, recently interviewed RuPaul for BET where he..or do I say she, talked about the Obamas, her new show “Drag Race”, Being a drag queen and what a drag LL Cool J is.  Here is an excerpt from the interview.

You did an episode of LL Cool J’s “In the House” back in the nineties. How was that working with him?
It was hideous and horrible. He made it so difficult because he was so afraid. He was afraid that he made everyone else on the set not enjoy it themselves either. In fact, when I was ready to leave the show because he was ignorant, they all said, “Look, please stay, we have been dealing with his fear for so long that it’s become unbearable.” Just last week he had gotten into an altercation with someone about the OJ verdict because he believed that OJ was innocent and something happened on the set. So, I stayed, I did my episode, but to do this work, to excel on this planet, you have to be almost part therapist. Part psychology major to understand what’s behind people’s motives. He had said some really nasty stuff, he was all surly at the table reading — just fearful and ignorant. I understand, but they’re not paying me that much money, I don’t want to be around it. But, they begged me to stay and I did it. I’m glad I did. He’s a great teacher in that respect and this is important, I got to see myself in him. I got to see what I look like when I do that. It’s not pretty so in essence he is a great teacher for me.

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