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With 18 basic seasons, the eleventh season has been released All stars Part 1 and the franchise’s first feature film on the way, there’s never been a busier time in the world of cinema RuPaul’s Drag Race universe.
RuPaul’s Drag Race It concluded its 18th season in April, with Myki Meeks crowned America’s Next Drag Superstar. It didn’t take much longer (three weeks, to be exact) before the first two episodes of the Paramount+ series premiered RuPaul’s Drag Race: All-Starswhere 18 queens from the show’s past returned for a second shot at the crown.
To add to the franchise’s palette, World of Wonder, the Emmy Award-winning production company behind it all Drag racingand Bleecker Street are gearing up for the June 12 release of Stop! Which! Train!the first film to hail from the world of the show. The film is directed by RuPaul (of course) with a cast of Drag racing alum.
But to celebrate the 18th season of the main series, as Emmy voting is about to begin, Hollywood Reporter He attended an FYC event hosted on Sunday on the set of the series. As the buzz around Stop! Which! Train! continues to grow, THR asked Michelle Visage and RuPaul’s makeup artist David Petrushin (aka Drag racing Season 2 runner-up Raven) is about one movie that must eventually get made: a RuPaul Charles biopic.
“Oh, I guess this is fate. It has to happen,” said Visage, who serves as a judge and executive producer of the film. RuPaul’s Drag RaceHe said THR. “We’ve been talking about this for the last 30 years. It has to happen.”
When asked when the potential project could come out, Petrushin said: “I think it’s already been worked on. But in terms of coordinating it and putting it together, I don’t know. But yes, it should happen.”
Visage and Petruschin are two shoes that will be featured in the film, e.g Drag Race Down The host has been a dear friend and collaborator of RuPaul’s since the 1980s and past Drag racing The contestant became his own makeup artist in 2017.
So who should play them in a biopic? Petrushin isn’t sure yet, but he knows “they must be very tanned.” As for Visage, she’d like to portray herself, but if that’s not an option, she offers a few leading women as potential options.
“I think about it a lot, and I feel like Renee Rapp would be a good person to play me. Julia Garner could be good, even Miley Cyrus,” Visage says. “Depends on how old we go here, kids.”
Visage notes that a “tougher casting” will select an artist to portray the drag queen. Both Visage and Petruschin agree that an actor or drag queen can play RuPaul, but the role should end up going to “whoever is good at the job.”
“I can’t remember who said he wanted to play her,” teases Petrushin.
The original RuPaul’s Drag Race The series has been a solid source of Emmys, with 29 awards (and 79 nominations) under its belt. The show has been the winner of the resident reality competition show in recent years before Traitors Its dominance began in 2024.
She says with a visage Drag racing Clinching that title through the upcoming Emmys cycle would be “a statement without saying it’s a statement.”
“I think it will be a tournament where voices are heard without things being said. It’s a statement without saying it’s a statement, you know what I mean?” “It’s a big hit,” Visage said of the show taking home its Emmys reality win. “Especially with what’s going on in the political climate. But we’re grateful to be in that category of people that we are in; to be nominated and included and thought of is a true honor. We’re spreading love. We still celebrate, but if we do [win]It’s definitely a ‘we’re not going anywhere’ kind of statement.”
Traitors He is RuPaul’s Drag RaceMain contender for the Emmys – RuPaul won the reality host award for eight straight years before Alan Cumming won the title in 2024, as the main show did in the reality competition category from 2018 to 2023 (with a one-year break in 2022 when Watch out Lizzo for the big Grrrls beat).
Visage is too busy judging the main things and All stars Duplicates Drag racingHe also serves as a judge in UK versus the world Spinoff and serves as host of Drag Race Down (And the next spin-off Down Under Against the World).
But that doesn’t mean her appearance has been completely written off RuPaul’s Drag RaceThe largest prize competition.
“Would I ever do that Traitors? “I would love to be a traitor,” Visage says when asked if she would participate in a peacock show. “But I’m afraid that if I did that, people would automatically assume I was a traitor. But then you said Lisa Rinna was a traitor. Bob the drag queen was a traitor.” Boston Rob He was a traitor – and if they didn’t think he was, you’d never know!
