‘No, that’ll never work’: Why Courtney Act knocked back the idea for her TV pilot | Ben Pobjie
There’s a twist in Courtney Act’s new celebrity interview show, which is part of Ten’s Pilot Showcase. Before teasing out the guest’s life journey, the host with the most dresses them in drag.is a part of Ten’s Pilot Showcase. Give me the elevator pitch that got you that slot.. I was in drag, it was forty-something degrees, I was standing in some animal park, it was hot and it was sweaty and there was a delay on the autocue. It was all very challenging.
What I didn’t realise was, the other times I’d tried it, it was a Christmas special, with music numbers and guests and things, and I put Jonnie Peacock, the Paralympian, in drag. At the beginning of the show, it was happening in a dressing room, someone else was doing it and there was the big reveal at the end. I didn’t love it. But the thing is, this show is an interview show. The whole show is about this one thing.
I think it does reveal stuff. The thing that’s wonderful about drag is that I know we traditionally think about a man dressing up as a woman – that would be the most reductive description of drag. But for me, I’m not dressing up as a woman, I’m, I guess, dressing up as a drag queen. In the beginning, I started dressing up because it was a way to express femininity that I wasn’t able to express in other places.
Yeah, I guess that one story we’ve seen for the last few hundred years, the – no offence if you are one – the straight white man narrative…We’re now seeing stories of queer people, stories of people of colour, stories of women, of people with disabilities. We’re just seeing more stories being told, which is a wonderful way to foster empathy.
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