
RuPaul is in the new issue of Vogue talking to writer Abby Aguirre & looking regal AF, as the Queen, shot by Annie Liebovitz.
In the upcoming Netflix series, created with Michael Patrick King (SATC) Ru is a down-on-her-luck drag queen named Ruby, traveling cross-country with an eleven-year-old orphan named AJ, played by the young actor Izzy G.
The series is based on the 1941 Preston Sturges comedy Sullivan’s Travels, a favorite of both RuPaul’s and MPK’s. Fans might get a shock as it shows Ru’s character getting into and out of drag and RuPaul got a glimpse of the show just before the interview.
Mr. Charles told Vogue,
“My job, our job as drag queens, has always been to remind you that this outfit you’re wearing, or this label you put on yourself, is just a label. Drag queens are the shamans or the witch doctors or even the court jesters—to remind you what is really real.
In my career, I’ve been able to show certain angles. I’ve been able to paint on a face and edit what I presented. I thought by doing this acting project, I would be exposing myself to the world: the raw, unfiltered self. But what I found out yesterday was that I was exposing myself to myself. I got to see the parts of me that even I didn’t allow myself to recognize or acknowledge. I had thought,
‘I’m going to be naked to the world.’
No, I was naked to myself.”
Read the full interview here.
(Photo, Netflix; via Vogue)