I actually used to plan it in New York City with a tiny friend of mine, but we never got around to doing it I just never actually had the proper venue to do it or the right scene partner. I’ve wanted to do that number for a very long time. Well, she’s 11 years old and like 80 pounds, so it wasn’t that hard. So Vulture hopped on the phone to chat with Bob about the season thus far, creating the Selma episode’s outrageously fun wig dance performance, and how the episode’s message relates to the conversations surrounding Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special.Ĭan we talk about that wig moment with your niece? Was it hard, performing with her on your shoulders? Akeelah’s story, and those of other members of the Selma community, makes for a powerful exploration of what it means to live out loud as a queer, Black person in a conservative city, and it how it affects everyone - Bob and fellow drag queens Shangela and Eureka included. Through guidance and mentorship to several drag kids over the course of the season, Bob gives viewers plenty to think about when it comes to our place in the world, what we owe one another, and how owning the truth of who we are can make things better for everyone.Īll of this is embodied in the latest episode of We’re Here, set in Selma, Alabama, where Bob mentors Akeelah, a trans woman living a city that has notoriously not been kind to Black or queer people.
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The RuPaul’s Drag Race season eight winner and New York drag-scene icon aptly navigates comedy, drama, and important social movements, and in the sophomore installment of the HBO series We’re Here, the nonbinary triple threat is giving even more killer looks and nuanced, funny observations about what it means to be queer, Black, and simply alive in America in 2021. Bob the Drag Queen embodies, in so many ways, the moment we are in.
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