- I've been nice to everybody in this competition,
and today I will stand my ground.
- No fucking class or decorum, honey.
- Are you serious? - Oop.
- I'm fucking pissed.
- [shouts]
- This is "Untucked,"
backstage of the competition
to become America's next drag superstar.
Girl, if you're not watching "Untucked,"
you're only getting half the story.
- The queens are ready to move.
- Copy.
- Where can I sit? Thank you.
- Oh! - Hi, baby.
- I'm gonna walk. I can't do that.
- Have fun. - You look hot.
- Queens walking.
- Ow, ow.
- Prep "Untucked" cameras on the main stage.
[tense music]
- Welcome, queens.
I've made some decisions.
Dawn, Nymphia Wind, Plane Jane, Xunami Muse,
good job this week, ladies.
You are all safe.
- Thank you.
- You may leave the stage.
- [exhales]
- I'm safe.
It would be good to be in the top two,
but I am grateful to have the opportunity.
And I feel like I killed it with my role.
And I am happy and proud of myself.
- This was a really fantastic Rusical.
It's challenges like these where the judges really have
to grasp at straws to pick out the tops and the bottoms.
We all did so well, so I'm transforming the safe
in my mind into a top placement.
[laughs]
- Prep cameras in the "Untucked" lounge.
- Send the queens in three, two, one.
[cheering, laughter]
- Oh, my goodness. Alcohol!
- Oh, my God. - Wowie.
- Yaas.
Oh, it feels so good to be in here.
[giggles] - I--[sighs]
Okay. - I want a corner seat.
Actually, wait. - Lay the whole sofa.
- I haven't sat over here since I've--
oh, my God.
[laughs]
- This hair needs to come off. It's killing me.
I'm gonna be bald-headed... - Oh, Plane.
- For this "Untucked." - She's gonna be plain.
- You can't claim to be a pretty girl now.
- Oh, my God. Okay. - [groans]
- What a week to be safe. So happy about that.
- Wow. We made it. [laughs] - Wow, girl.
- Cheers to the afters. - Cheers!
- Cheers to "Xunami's Afters."
How do you feel, Xunami, hosting yet another week?
[laughter]
- Safe again? Really?
But I have to be honest, being safe just means another chance
to show another look, so I am extremely grateful
to host "Untucked Afters" once again.
[laughs]
- She is the queen of-- - You know what?
If there's one week I'm happy, it's this one.
- Right? - And, baby--
- Everyone was so good. - Baby...
- Your cohost isn't here... - [gasps]
- Miss Morpheana. - I know.
I hope she's in the top.
- Who's out there, Sapphira? Definitely top, right?
- Yeah. - What do we think about Q?
- I'm kind of pissed off
'cause I feel like he's in the top again.
- I know.
- Ah, what?
You expect us to sing for free?
Keep it moving.
- But then Plasma.
- Plasma's definitely in the top.
- Plasma may have done amazing,
but she looked so rancid as that character.
[laughter] I'm so sorry.
Like, she looked insane.
[Xunami cackles]
- I don't--okay. I won't go that far.
So do we think we definitely know the bottom two then?
- Well, Mhi'ya and Megami were kind of the speculated bottoms
throughout the week. - Yeah, yeah.
- Why do y'all think Mhi'ya is in the bottom then?
- Her facial expression, it wasn't really musical.
I think she's more used to, like, club dancing
and voguing and ballroom, rather than, like...
But I personally found her so cute when she was like...
- I know. I did too. - I was like, "Oh, Mhi'ya."
- She gave--she gave a little character.
But honestly, like, personally, I'm so bored with Mhi'ya.
I'm so sorry.
- [laughs] - I'm so sorry.
Like, give us something, girl. - I think it's fine--
- I mean, I think it's fine that she's reserved.
I just feel like maybe she is getting lost
with all these super huge personalities.
- Girl, grow a personality.
Like, you're on television, sweetheart.
- Oh, my God, Plane. - Um, I-I think that--
- You really should be the baroness.
[robotically] Uniformity.
[laughter] You better be polished.
- That's fantastic. - [singing] Everyone, be pretty
Or you go - Yeah. [laughs]
- [singing] Leave the competition 'cause you ugly
- We have to take into consideration the looks.
- Yeah.
- Honestly for me, like, once I got dressed and then
I looked around the room, I was like, "Oh, my God.
like, I'm the only one with no flower."
- Yeah. Talk about that. - Can you explain?
- What's your concept? - Can you explain
how this fits the concept?
That is neither flowers nor floral.
- I'm an upside-down bouquet. - How?
Oh. [laughter]
- Oh! - I thought you were grass.
- No, you know what, bitch? I'm safe, so fuck you.
- You know what? - You know what?
I need to complete you.
[laughter]
Let me come over there.
Now you're complete.
Grass and flowers.
- Okay, that would have been fierce.
- Yeah, actually. - No. Okay.
I guess I understand the concept now.
But, mama, that is neither--
[belches]
[coughs, belches]
[laughter]
There was a lot of back and forth
about who was gonna get what role, right?
Do we think the standings would be different
if the girls had gotten different roles?
- Very. - For sure.
- Yeah. - Absolutely.
- But I don't think anybody on this cast
could have done Mother Superior as good as Sapphira.
- No, absolutely not.
- You can't keep your freak in.
You can only let it out.
- But-- - Shh.
[singing] I was just like you
Curious about the great unknown
- But I-- - Ah.
[singing] I was just like you
[laughter]
- Every single time I watched her do it, I laughed.
- Even Adam, every time, even during rehearsal.
- I was laughing every time. - He just couldn't.
- How did you feel about working with him?
- I was just gonna say, I absolutely loved it.
He's an incredible director and has--I mean,
I mean, the résumé is résumé-ing.
- Melissa McCarthy walked on the set.
- She fucked up our jab. - Mama.
- [laughs] - I need focus, guys.
- You're doing great.
- Focus. Focus. Back here. Back here.
I'm working. - [laughs]
- This is my favorite sporting event I've ever partaken in.
- Melissa McCarthy was here, just, like--
- I know. That's the one
that my mom is gonna, like, lose her shit about.
You know what I mean?
- Oh! - [screams]
Oh, my God! - We've been waiting.
- Oh, my God. - Are y'all feet killing y'all?
- We see a lot of somber faces.
- Girl, it's just the feet.
It's just the feet talking through the face.
I got beautiful critiques.
I got so many compliments,
I didn't even know what to do with them.
- It was do-re-major.
- You should be incredibly proud.
- Just the energy. You were in it.
I'm glad that I fought for the role of Mariah.
They loved my performance.
And they said that I was a lead
who took every moment and every accent.
[singing] I'm longing to let all my freak out
To seek out adventure that's new and fresh and me
- You're in your element. - Plasma, I'm so proud of you.
Good job, girl. - Thank you.
I mean, you know, I've done theater most of my life.
And it felt like the first time that I've gotten feedback
in a theatrical space that was like,
"You should never ever doubt that this is what you should be
doing for the rest of your mortal days."
It just felt so full circle.
I'm over the moon. - Work.
You feel seen. - Yeah, and scene.
- [laughs] - End of act one.
The other thing to note is they said, like,
nobody was bad.
They said that it was, like, rating from who stood out
to, like, maybe who didn't stand out as much, you know?
Because everybody was really good.
- So, um, I'm in the bottom three,
but definitely not the worst critiques.
- No. Yeah.
They said that I did great in the Rusical.
I had a lot of energy. I was really good,
but that I could have done more.
And all of them loved the look. They were obsessed.
But then Adam pointed out the lining.
And I was like, "Aah!"
- They had a little more to say about me and Mhi'ya.
So I'm pretty sure it's gonna be me and Mhi'ya.
The critiques were kind of like,
we really enjoyed a lot of things, but here's, like,
a couple of little things to work on.
- I feel like I get one look.
And I'm not talking about your drag.
I'm talking about your face.
I want you to let the drag deliver the personality.
- It wasn't like, "Your performance was horrible."
Like, they were actually like, "You had really funny moments."
[singing] My name is Schnitzel, and I want to marry
But all the boys tell me my schnitzel's too heavy
But yeah, I fully expect to be lip-syncing tonight,
which is why I'ma enjoy this fucking drink
in "Xunami's Afters."
[laughter]
- If you're going to lip-sync,
you are motherfucking ready to do so.
- I am ready to do so, baby.
Like, I was saying from the beginning,
girl, New York top five.
Sorry, everyone else.
- Mhi'ya, what did they say about you?
- The critiques they gave me was that it was moments
that I was in character and that they loved.
But I wasn't in character the whole time.
They could see in my face
that I was kind of, like, just working
and counting and stuff like that.
They loved my runway look.
But I could see myself lip-syncing tonight.
- Damn.
- On to our baroness.
What did they say about you?
- They thought I sold it, and they loved the baroness,
and, like, the whole, like,
very Amanda Lepore face that I did was, like, sickening.
It is my privilege to be with you here this evening.
[laughter]
And then the transformation from that
to this kind of gagged them, so I'm really happy.
Yeah, I loved this runway.
It was one of my favorites that I brought, so.
- Yeah, same. - Stunning.
- Although I will say,
when they were like, "Oh, Q, you're not a dancer,
but you learned the choreo really well,"
I was like, "Bitch, what choreo?"
- What do you mean, "What choreo?"
[shade rattle]
- Uh... - Yeah.
- No shade, but you didn't do anything.
- Hold on. Hold on.
Don't say that I didn't do anything, Mama.
- Sorry, that was a poor choice of words. I'm sorry.
- Don't say I didn't do anything.
- I mean, but, bitch, that's what she was trying
to imply too. - Yeah.
- I get it that I didn't have as much choreo.
But I sold it... - Right.
- And that's what went wrong
with your performance, you selling it.
- Uh--uh-- - That's where it went wrong.
- 'Cause I was focused on the heaps of choreo
they threw at us. [laughs]
both: Oop. - Do you think you would have
gotten the better critiques in that role?
- I mean, if I'm not learning intense choreo
and I can focus on being a character,
yes, absolutely 'cause that's, like, my favorite part of drag.
- I think Megami is mad that I got the baroness role.
But we literally did rock, paper, scissors for it.
I left it up to destiny, and destiny chose me.
And I think she's mad because, you know,
I'm in the top and she's in the bottom.
- I know that Megami was making remarks about--
both: Our group. - And I think that's clear.
- Our group. - Yeah.
- Okay, hit it.
- I'm not the one lip-syncing in the bottom, so.
- Ooh. - Okay.
- It felt like you were kind of wishing
that I was in the bottom.
- Uh, I was joking.
It was more about me being, like, annoyed
with how much, like, now I have to fucking compensate
for what I'm lacking than, like,
oh, I'm, like, attacking you guys.
- It just didn't make me wanna, like, even be near you.
- When you read and read and read and read,
it starts getting annoying. - It's like--yeah,
if you care about something,
just focus all your energy
on you and doing the best that you can do
and not trying to put other bitches down.
- I was just trying to be funny.
It was never meant in, like, malice.
- But you wanted the judges to recognize the fact
that we didn't have as much to do.
[laughter]
- I would have loved that.
I can understand it from Xunami.
She's a sweetheart.
But for Miss Plane, who is the queen of talking shit,
like, "Girl, you're just doing it for the drama, shut up."
- Oh! - Oh, my God.
- Hey, ladies. - Daddy!
- Hi, Dad. - Girl.
Can I sit down? all: Yes!
- Adam Shankman's here.
Hello, Mr. Director.
- All tea, no shade, you guys destroyed this.
You were amazing...
- Fuck yes. - And I am so proud of you.
And I know--you know, look, it's a competition.
And you have to get critiques.
It's all gonna happen and all of that.
But honestly, I am proud of each and every one of you
in a very, very serious and real way.
You guys, you accomplished something surreal
in an incredibly short period of time.
I know that Melissa--
you know, we talked after the thing.
She was like, "Look at those beautiful,
beautiful human beings up there."
And I was like, "Yeah, these are some
really, really special, great people."
And I'm thrilled.
I'm thrilled to have been here. - Thank you.
- I hope that you had an okay time
and that I wasn't being a dick.
- We had a fabulous time. - The best time.
- Thanks to you, you allowed us to, like, live that moment.
And, like, it's your choreo. And, like, it's your show.
And, like, we just got to live that.
- Yeah. - And, like, thank you so much.
- Yes. - I think it's hard coming here
sometimes, working with people 'cause you don't always feel,
like, that comfortability.
But I felt, like, right away, like,
it felt that way, like, you know?
- Big poppa. - Well, I hope it felt like,
I--you know, I was really rooting for you.
And even when I would, like, get a little like, "Mm, guys,"
like, that is because I want you guys to succeed.
I just want you to take what you learned in this one
and apply it to the next one as well.
- Uh, can I say something? - Yes, ma'am.
- There's such a culture in the theater.
Oh, no. - Queens, I'm sorry.
- I was about to say something! - Heading back--
- No! - I'm so sorry.
- All I was gonna say is, there's a culture around
unkindness and "nongenerosity" in the industry.
And you were the exact opposite of any sort of negative energy.
- Thank you for allowing us to step into your world.
- You guys, thank you so much. - And this outfit is very cute.
- Yeah, you look cunt. - Aah!
- You better work.
Walk. Now walk.
- Thank you, Adam. - Ooh!
- Walk, walk, walk, walk. - You better walk.
- You better step in that walk. - Walk, walk, walk, walk. Aah!
- All right, queens, let's start getting ready
to head back-- - Oh, shit.
- No. Actually, no. - There it is. All right.
- I just want to clear the air.
And I want Xunami to know how much I love and respect her.
And if I said anything that she felt uncomfortable with,
then I truly am sorry.
I want to apologize if I made you feel any way.
I, um, oh, my God, now I'm gonna get emotional.
- No! - No, no, no,
because, you know, I fucking adore you.
You're amazing.
And it was just out of frustration.
[sweet music]
And I don't want to leave with, like,
any bad blood. - Yes, yeah.
- And I just wanted to let you know.
- Yes, it's not like I think you're malicious
or an evil person, you know what I mean?
- I would hope not. [laughs] - No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
A great part of maturity is like, you know what,
this is how I feel, this is how I feel.
And then we're like, you know-- - And I appreciate that.
- Yeah, and it's like, now we can move forward.
- Yeah. Of course. No. I love you, bitch.
- Good.
- I'ma go up there and fight my ass off.
- I gotta say, I mean, it sounds like
you should learn the lyrics, but--
- Oh, girl, I know that shit.
- You got it. You got it.
[both laughing]
- I'm feeling confident in myself.
Mhi'ya's known for her flips and tricks.
And this is really not that kind of song.
- All right, queens.
Time to head back to the runway.
Follow me. - Megami.
Kill it, bitch.
- Yeah, mwah, mwah.
- Megami thinks she has this in the bag.
But little does she know I'm also a ballad girl.
I'm a all-around performer.
- Bye, afters.
[laughs]
- All right. Here comes Mhi'ya.
[dramatic music]
- Welcome back, queens.
I've made some decisions.
Mhi'ya, Megami, the time has come
for you to lip sync for your life.
[suspenseful music]
[cheering]
Megami, my queen, sashay away.
[cheers and applause]
- Support local drag, and protect queer art.
- Amen. - Thank you.
[somber music]
I feel a little upset.
Honestly, I felt like I won that lip sync.
I put my heart and my soul into that song.
And nothing against Mhi'ya,
I felt like her lip sync was messy.
But it is what it is.
Oh, my God. [laughs]
It's been, like, how many years?
And I finally got here.
Like, oh, my God. This place is a mess.
[laughs]
The one part that I was, like, dreading more than anything
was packing everything up.
This whole process has been insane.
From walking in the first day,
I don't even recognize who that person is anymore.
I'm a new person 'cause this thing I've wanted forever,
I did it.
I maybe underestimated how tough this is gonna be.
But, you know, I'm a born and raised New Yorker,
so I'm a tough-ass bitch.
[laughs]
I can go anywhere and be anything now.
I know I'm not for everyone to get.
And the people who do get me love me.
I feel like drag at its core
is kind of like a "fuck you" to society
and the boxes that they try to put all of us in
in terms of gender and everything.
And I love saying "fuck you"
to the establishment.
All my friends left me little notes.
"Megami, I know you wanted this for so long.
"Wish you could have stayed longer.
"You definitely worked the dancing
"and pulled through, which I am so proud of.
Thick and stick sis forever" from Nymphia.
Ugh. I love that pain in the ass.
[laughs]
From Miss Plasma, my sis.
"Miss Megami, NYC sister, I fucking adore you.
"And, remember, we've only just begun.
XOXO. Plasma."
I had such a great time meeting everyone
and the fun times we had being friends and kiki-ing
and having a good time.
We will be bonded as sisters for the rest of our lives.
[groaning]
Back to New York.
[exhales]
Well, I made it.
And I did it my way,
as a great New Yorker once said.
[gentle music]
I know that my drag, my art, is valuable and is worth it.
I definitely believe it now more than I ever have.
People always tell you to shoot for the moon.
But I say think bigger, 'cause beyond the moon,
there's a whole universe out there, so shoot for that.
Byeee.
- [singing] A little bit of love goes a long, long way
Lifting you up to a brighter day
A little bit of love goes a long, long way
Turn it around when you up and say
Everybody say love
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Love
Can you feel the love