When RuPaul and Michael Patrick King first began working together, they were pleasantly surprised to find they both had strong feelings for Preston Sturges’ 1941 feature film “Sullivan&…
“Everybody thinks that to make a real impact in this world it has to be this [Martin] Scorsese dark, Oliver Stone, ‘This is an important film!'”. But, “the premise of ‘Sullivan’s Travels’ is laughter is the biggest spell you can cast; it has the widest net and the biggest impact. And understanding that — getting to that place — is such an evolved, zen destination.”
The latter might be the most obvious because of how many alumni from the show pop up as various queens Robert and AJ meet during their road trip — from Bianca Del Rio to Katya Zamolodchikova to Chad Michaels to Latrice Royale and Trinity The Tuck. But “Drag Race” also touches upon the “emotional life of the queens in the dressing rooms,” King notes, especially with its companion series “RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked.
“When we started out, there was a question of if the real emotion would come through drag. It was a real interesting situation to see no one’s ever really tried to do that, but when you wind up and get to the last episode, you see the most emotional scene is through drag. I guess the spirit is bigger than the makeup,” King says.
RuPaul also admits he was outside of his usual comfort zone with the romantic relationship between Robert and Damian aka Hector . But while it was “a challenge emotionally to be that open and intimate” on-screen, RuPaul says there was never a question that such a story had to be built into the fabric of the show.
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