And Don't F&%k It Up by World of Wonder

Author:World of Wonder [FERNANDEZ, MARIA ELENA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2023-06-06T00:00:00+00:00

By the time the Glitter Ball challenge arrived, frenemies BenDeLaCreme and Darienne Lake had already faced off in a lip sync to Exposé’s “Point of No Return” after landing in the bottom as a team during the cosmetics infomercial challenge. That time, they both got to shantay.

DARIENNE LAKE: For the infomercial challenge, they put us in groups and it didn’t dawn on me at all that they were putting people in groups who had some sort of beef. I was like, I get to be with Ben, this is cool, we’re gonna rock this challenge. We’re gonna be crazy and memorable and do something wacky and fun. We thought we’re doing a great job. We’re showing the product. I definitely didn’t think that we would be in the bottom at all.

BENDELACREME: I felt like our concept was pretty strong and I felt really good about it but the hardest part of challenges like that are having no idea what the judges are actually looking for. We had to make a decision: Are we really trying to sell this? Or are we making the funniest idea we can come up with? Turns out, we chose the wrong thing. We decided let’s make the best comedy sketch we can come up with and then we got on the runway and everybody was like well that’s not gonna sell anything.

MICHELLE VISAGE: We went through a lot to get Ben to drop the act and give us some vulnerability. And the issue is Ben, the human, is fully engrossed in BenDeLaCreme when Ben transforms into BenDeLa. So BenDeLa doesn’t like to bring Ben into BenDeLa—and that’s not necessarily a problem, but when we see drag queens onstage performing we like to feel the crusty bits, the rough edges. That’s what makes us fall in love with someone.

BENDELACREME: DeLa is a character and I’m a character queen and I am not a queen who is just Ben in a dress. I’m a character. So I made a very conscious choice when I went on Drag Race to be in character when I’m in drag. I knew that that might be a thing. I knew what Michelle meant. DeLa is this aspect of who I am. I’m introducing you to my drag and if you don’t know who Ben is, then you can watch the confessionals when it airs on TV. I’m not trying to show you who Ben is. I’m trying to show you my art.

BIANCA DEL RIO: I knew early on not to argue with the judges. No matter what they say, you just go mm-hmm, great, and then do whatever the fuck you wanted. But I wasn’t gonna give them the, Oh, how dare you? Because I’d seen that ruin everyone else. You’re not gonna see some emotional mess or me lose my mind over a critique. They have to say something. But I’m also questioning things Michelle was wearing. Give me a break! She’s judging us? What the hell is that? That’s when she had those tits that were just propped up on the desk.

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