RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked! (2010–…): Season 12, Episode 2 - Condragulations - full transcript
This is not
RuPaul's Best Friend Race.
I feel very attacked!
Ooh, yes.
Well, we made it.
I have had everybody in this
goddamn place coming for me.
RuPaul: This is Untucked,
backstage at the competition
to become America's
next drag superstar.
Girl, if you're not
watching Untucked,
you're only getting
half the story.
Director:
Break on the main stage.
All cameras re-po.
RuPaul: Thank you, ladies.
While you untuck
in the werkroom,
the judges and I
will deliberate.
Y'all, let me
tell you something.
The little kid inside of me
is jumping for joy
while sobbing
in the corner, bitch.
It is such a surreal moment
to have the judges literally say
that I'm a fucking star.
No one can take this moment
away from me,
not even myself.
I feel so good.
Hearing the judges
totally get Olivia Lux
and get me,
it feels like I did
what I needed to do
in this challenge and then some.
When it came to the challenge,
I fucked up,
and hearing that to me,
was just like, oh,
you're not doing good.
So I might be going home,
and it fucking sucks.
And mark.
Ooh. Whew.
My God, girls, we runwayed!
Hello?
Yes!
First motherfucking runway.
And my feet hurt. [all laugh]
Ooh.
Oh, you're the best.
Oh, wow, wow, wow.
You guys, we just got critiqued
for the first time.
- [laughs]
- We just got slayed.
That was the first runway
on the main stage.
- How do you guys feel?
- Ugh.
I mean, I'm pretty pleased
with what they said.
I was nervous about, like,
my fashion show critiques,
because I felt that
everybody was, like,
over the top
with their fashion show,
and I was, like, simple,
like, fishy.
I think you represented
yourself well, though.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I told you that,
so, like, girl,
like, girls can come in here
with custom costumes,
but, like, you know,
the costume is wearing them.
It's how you sell the garment,
and how the judges,
like, see you.
And I'm sure you went on
that runway, like, stormed.
I really appreciated
what Michelle said
about, like, my skin color.
Because, like, growing up,
my skin color
was something people picked on,
like, for being dark-skinned.
Tonight was my favorite
look of yours,
because your skin
is the most beautiful color.
So when you came out
in this yellow, 24-karat gold,
and you've got that
delicious, rich skin color,
it just all played perfectly.
To hear her compliment it
was just, like... [sighs].
Like, a moment for me. [laughs]
Not only complimented,
but she was in love, honey.
She was in love.
It was just like, oh, my God.
Like, Michelle
is, like, saying this.
And, like, with you,
everything that you do,
it's so, like, I believe her.
I love you.
I think you're so great.
- Me, too.
- I think you're so great.
I'm not gonna cry this season.
They're not gonna get me
on camera crying, baby.
How you feeling, sis?
I don't know. I don't know.
I feel like they are obviously,
like, impressed
with my personality,
like, and me, like, as a person.
And they liked your outfit.
It was, like, 50/50
on the fashion show.
And they really liked
the outfit tonight,
but I also was the only one
that got the worst critique
out of the entire performance.
What did they say
that was "worst?"
It was just, like, we could
tell that you fucked up.
When you mess up your choreo,
don't let it show in your cara.
The minute that happened,
we saw you going,
like, full-on panic.
And I knew onstage
when I was doing it,
when I messed up, in my head,
I was, like, oh, fuck,
there goes my opportunity.
I feel like they were
just saying that
that, like, you have
such a strong personality
that, like, I feel like you,
out of anyone,
should be the one to, like,
yeah, I fucked up, bitch.
Like, look at it.
That's, I feel, like,
what they meant.
I think I was just
so, like, in the mood
of, like, all right,
let me impress Ru,
let me, like, go.
And, like, I was just
so in my own solo
that I completely forgot
about the chorus
and, like, joining
back into the choreo.
And then when I realized,
I was, like, oh.
But you were still you,
and that's the point they made
is, like, all right,
you might have forgot it,
but we couldn't take
our eyes off you.
And they said
you're unpredictable,
and that's something
you can't just learn.
- No, and they liked that.
- Mm-hmm.
You're unpredictable,
just like your test results.
[all laugh]
Nina, how do you feel about
everything they said to you?
What did you say?
Did you say "Nina?"
Ooh!
- Did I say Nina?
- She said Nina.
- Aah!
- Did she just call me Nina?
Did you call me,
like, Nina West?
- That's wild, sis.
- Who's Nina?
Yeah, Nina West. [all laugh]
This is why you got
sent home three times
in the first episode.
[all laugh] Damn.
- Tina. Tina, bitch.
- Listen, Tina,
I don't think that anyone
could have gone on that stage
and gotten the critiques
that you got.
- Bitch, they live for you.
- They are obsessed with the fact
that you are on RuPaul's
Drag Race Season 13.
- Yeah.
- I mean, I'm happy.
Like, I really meant it,
like, when I said, like,
I think if I would have
come at any other time,
like, it would have been
a different journey for me.
The one thing I always have to
take with me when I'm in drag,
and, like, even in my career,
is, like, you always
have to still be scared
and still be humble,
you know what I mean?
Like, it was such
a humbling experience.
And, like, attention to detail
is something that I've always
tried to instill
in, like, any, like, my drag
family and stuff like that.
And she's such that girl, too.
And you know what I mean?
I'm just, like, girl,
you don't wanna miss that beat.
You don't wanna crush that,
you know?
I mean, the only thing
that took away
is me, you know, making love
to the camera, bitch.
I'm gonna get some lubrication,
we gonna make it happen.
I'm gonna borrow it
from your room, Kandy.
Right, like your OnlyFans video.
- Just think of that.
- Oh, bitch!
Now, Miss Elliott,
as someone who was sent home
and got brought back
into a new group,
which is not easy
to walk into a room
with six other bitches,
how are you feeling?
I'm really overwhelmed.
Like, you guys literally
didn't even try to bombard me
with, like, "Why are you here?"
Except for her.
She was, like, bitch,
you were sent home.
Well, that's...
I had reason to question.
No, but, like, as a whole,
you guys really
didn't even hesitate
to go, you know what?
We seven now.
What's the tea?
No, fuck the other bitches.
You know what I'm saying?
I mean, it's hard
not to feel like that.
Think of me walking into the
room with you guys like I did,
and then instantly
us going, okay,
which one of us
has to leave now?
- Mm.
- Yeah.
- Like, that's what happened.
- It's true.
So, this, I'm so thankful for
even the little amount of time.
Because even if I go home
tonight, again...
[laughs]
- Make it four times.
- Four times.
A legendary moment for you.
Yeah, it's crazy,
because, I mean,
I almost have a little bit
of guilt for it,
if it were not to be me.
But at the same time, like,
I want the opportunity
to compete
just like everyone else.
It was literally
taken away from me
the second I rolled in, and...
Are you all right, Kandy?
No, Kandy.
- Don't cry, girl.
- No, Kandy!
Do we have some tissue?
[exhales]
I just worked
so hard to be here,
and, like, the thought
of my having to lip sync
and, like, going home tonight
is, like, terrifying to me.
Because, like, my sister
went home first last time,
and, like, here I am again
in the same position.
There's just so much people
back at home rooting for me,
and I just don't
wanna be, like...
- Come on, girl.
- Oh, my God.
And, like, the reality is, like,
yeah, we're in a competition,
but, like, when
you're put in the position
of, like, hi, yeah, like, you
fucked up in the challenge,
it's, like, oh.
The reality sets in.
Like, you know, I can have
all this personality,
but if I'm not applying it,
then it doesn't matter
on the main stage,
and that's what matters,
and that's what
they're looking at.
And I just...
What's bothering me the most
and what's, like, in my gut
is, like, if I lip sync tonight
and end up going home,
and those bitches
get to come back here.
Like, I've worked my ass off.
I made sure that in that fashion
show I went outside of the box.
Yeah, I fucked up
in the performance,
but you can't tell me that just
out of that little single part
that I fucked up that I wasn't
good in the entire thing.
I was going ham on that stage.
And I think that my runway look
tonight is really fucking cute.
And I'm trying to show people
that you can be a big girl
and be sexy
and be fashion forward,
and it doesn't have to be
comedy and all that.
So if I have to go home
and some other bitches
walk in here,
I'm gonna be pissed
the fuck off.
We all will.
That's 100% valid.
Thank you.
Coming to Drag Race,
you never really expect
to make sisters
and really great friends.
Although we're competitors
and we're competing
for the crown,
they are very supportive,
and they really
make me feel so good
about everything I've done
so far in this competition.
So who do y'all think
out of everybody is the top
and who's the bottom?
- I'm definitely in the bottom.
- You think?
I feel like if it was off
of the critiques,
it would be, like,
me and Kandy in the bottom.
I think you were so concerned
with your dance steps
and remembering
the choreography...
- Mm.
- Yes. [laughs]
...that you were losing
the performance.
And then I would think...
Um, I don't know who's...
Between you three.
The top can really be,
like, any one of you four.
Like, everybody
got great critiques.
Because they really are
in love with y'all,
and they're in love with
you two bitches over there.
- Yeah.
- Which is wild.
Like, that makes me so happy.
That's great.
Mik, how do you feel?
Yeah, how you feeling about
your lyrics, or how do you...
You think
you delivered them well?
Olivia was the first person
that asked me about my lyrics,
and it's just been
really hard for me.
So it's now or never.
I have to tell these girls
why I wrote those lyrics,
why I was kind of
being weird in rehearsal.
The time is now.
This week was one of the most
emotional weeks of my life,
just because when we
went into the rehearsal,
I was just
kind of taken off-guard,
because, I mean,
I haven't talked to you guys
about my gender situation
and all that.
And so just, like,
when I got out there,
I was kind of just paralyzed,
and, like,
so not in the moment at all.
I couldn't take anything in,
just because, you know,
like, I'm a transgender guy
that does drag.
Even though
we did a song together,
and her saying it in the lyrics,
it didn't hit me.
I didn't realize
that's what she was saying.
Now I get why
the whole rehearsal
she was flustered and she
seemed,
like, overwhelmed.
It was, like, oh, my God.
And even, like, now, it's just,
like... it still is like, why?
It was just a lot.
Transitioning's just a really
insane emotional rollercoaster,
and you just have to
kind of be prepared for it
and train yourself
on how to deal with it.
I mean, let me tell you,
you are opening doors.
- Yeah.
- You are.
You are a trailblazer, honey.
Because to be the first
trans man on RuPaul's Drag Race?
Yeah.
- Iconic behavior.
- I'm so proud of it. Thanks.
Trailblazer.
You just deserve it for you,
though.
It doesn't matter
what your past is.
It doesn't matter...
Like, you're you, you're Mik.
Down. Seeing the vulnerable side
of Mik really is...
It's an eye-opener for me.
And I just wanna, like, hug him,
just be like, it's okay
to be yourself with us.
You're making history,
and you're gonna be
such an icon
for so many trans men.
They don't have
a presentation out there.
And I really admire Mik
for really opening up to us.
I'm just so happy to be here,
and I'm so happy
to talk about it.
- Yeah!
- Yes!
But it was fucked up,
and then I just felt so bad.
Because I was, like, oh, my God,
they just think, like,
I'm not paying attention.
But I was, like,
literally paralyzed.
It was awful.
Sorry you felt that way,
but I hope you just felt,
like, our love regardless.
The minute you walked up,
I said, "Competition."
You know what I mean?
It wasn't...
It's not like...
You just have a good soul.
And also, we're in
a drag competition
where your talents matter.
Yep, they matter.
- Throw it on the table.
- Yes.
We kind of talked about it
at the mirrors,
and I wanna say it again,
because I feel like
I speak for everyone
when I say, like,
it felt so amazing on stage
to be with you in that moment.
Because I know that that was
a really big moment for you.
And it just was,
like, really awesome
to connect with you
on that level.
- Thank you, guys.
- It's special.
I don't know
what I was expecting,
but everyone's
just really supportive.
I just feel so accepted,
so loved, so validated,
and so happy.
I know we're, like,
only two weeks in,
but do you guys feel like
you've learned something?
I don't know about y'all, but
I'm learning, like, patience.
- Oh, okay.
- Ooh.
New York is, like,
so fast moving,
and we're so used to, like,
what we have and who we do.
And, like, in New York,
you know,
I'm used to doing my own shows.
So being here
in a mix with people
and we're all, like,
on the same level,
it's taught me
to just take a step back,
you know what I mean?
And, like, look at everything
from a different light,
you know?
- Totally.
- And it's vulnerable.
And, like, I don't have
vulnerability in New York.
You know what I mean?
Like, I'm safe.
I'm in my bubble,
no pun intended.
You know what I'm saying?
It's, like... it's weird.
And now I'm super-exposed,
and I'm super-exposed
with people, you know,
I don't really know that well.
So it's, like, it's...
Yeah, it's weird.
I think it's also,
like, being in New York
and seeing that type of drag
is amazing,
and a lot of people think
going to New York, like,
that is the hub
and the premiere drag scene.
And that's honestly
why I went to New York.
But being here and seeing drag
from, like, everywhere...
From L.A., from Atlanta,
from Texas,
- it's so awesome.
- It is really fun.
I know I'm learning something
new every single day.
- Yeah.
- Looking at each person,
I'm, like, I wouldn't
have thought of that.
I wouldn't have thought
of this coat.
Bitch, none of this
I would have thought of.
[all laugh]
I love looking
at everyone's looks.
Like, it's my favorite thing.
Just to see everyone interpret
the challenge in their own way.
- I love it.
- Exactly, that's what it is.
- To see how everybody thinks.
- Totally.
Well, I learned that this was
called "la-may" and not "lame."
[all laugh] Aah!
That's what I learned.
Uh-uh!
The challenge was lame.
I didn't know
what that word was.
Thank God for smart people
in my life.
Girls, after this elimination,
the reality is that
those other bitches...
Yeah.
Maybe there's a twist, though.
Maybe it's something...
I don't know.
No, we don't know, honey.
Whether someone
goes home or not,
those bitches are coming.
Oop.
And may the best woman win.
- Amen.
- Hey.
Director:
Break on the main stage.
Kandy, how you feeling?
She's chilling out, honey.
How you feeling
with the lip sync?
I mean, it's just a lot.
It's a lot.
It's a lot quick.
- Against Kandy?
- Yeah.
I mean, we're all gonna
have to do it sometime.
That's how we all... we're all
up for elimination, you know?
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna
lip sync at this point,
and I'm gonna be lip syncing
against Kandy,
and that fucking sucks.
It doesn't define, like,
how we are
with each other, though.
- No, it doesn't.
- You know?
It's just one of those things
that is inevitable.
It's inevitable,
and we're all up for it.
Nobody's... like, nobody's safe.
What's the tea?
Just thinking about
lip syncing against you.
I love even when
you can go from crying
to walking into a conversation
and just go like this.
And you go like this:
"What's the tea?"
Girl, it's just you and me
out there.
- Go ham. Go off.
- I mean, I will, but...
Don't hold back, because
I'm not gonna hold back.
Yeah. I wouldn't.
- I love you.
- I love you fucker, too.
I hate this.
Me, too.
I love Kandy,
so just the thought
of having to do a lip sync
against one of my closest
friends in this competition
is fucking scary.
I...
Mm. I hate this.
Girl, if we're both good,
guess what?
They're gonna have
to keep us both.
True.
There you go.
Listen, it's gonna be a moment.
I'm optimistic.
I ain't going
no-motherfucking-where.
And if I gotta go somewhere,
y'all better roll them cameras,
because I'm gonna
go up to RuPaul.
[knock knock knock]
Let me have a word with you.
I'm not going nowhere.
If you got up in my face
and you were like,
"I ain't going nowhere,"
I'd be like,
"You can stay, bitch."
[laughs]
Aah!
10 minutes, Queens. 10 minutes.
All right.
This lip sync against Kandy
is the last thing I wanna do.
Maybe one of the last people
I want to do it against.
I'm freaking out.
But I'm going to do
whatever it takes
to prove that
I deserve to be here.
I am so scared and terrified
of the possibility
of being in the bottom two.
I don't wanna go home.
I've worked so hard
to get to where I am right now
and to get on Drag Race.
And I am beating myself up
over the fact that
I fucked up the choreography.
But if I'm in the bottom two,
I will be performing my ass off
on that main stage.
All right, Queens, follow me.
Off to the main stage.
Here we go.
Wait, we need shoes
and stuff, right?
I'm so happy
to be here with you.
- Yes, girl, same, yes.
- Oh, my God.
I'm glad they voted you
off the island, girl.
So I can come
to the good island.
- To the good island, okay?
- Okay?
I don't have my slippers.
Bitch, shut up, let's go.
RuPaul: Welcome back, ladies.
Olivia Lux, Symone,
con-drag-ulations.
You are the top two queens
of the week.
The rest of you are safe.
Olivia Lux, Symone,
the time has come
for you to lip sync
for the win.
Symone...
you're a winner, baby.
Olivia Lux, you're safe
to slay another day.
Now let the music play!
♪ I'm a winner ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
♪ I'm a winner ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
♪ I'm a winner ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
♪ I'm a winner ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
♪ I'm a winner ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
♪ I'm a winner ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
♪ Losers, weepers ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
♪ Finders, keepers ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
♪ Losers, weepers ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
RuPaul's Best Friend Race.
I feel very attacked!
Ooh, yes.
Well, we made it.
I have had everybody in this
goddamn place coming for me.
RuPaul: This is Untucked,
backstage at the competition
to become America's
next drag superstar.
Girl, if you're not
watching Untucked,
you're only getting
half the story.
Director:
Break on the main stage.
All cameras re-po.
RuPaul: Thank you, ladies.
While you untuck
in the werkroom,
the judges and I
will deliberate.
Y'all, let me
tell you something.
The little kid inside of me
is jumping for joy
while sobbing
in the corner, bitch.
It is such a surreal moment
to have the judges literally say
that I'm a fucking star.
No one can take this moment
away from me,
not even myself.
I feel so good.
Hearing the judges
totally get Olivia Lux
and get me,
it feels like I did
what I needed to do
in this challenge and then some.
When it came to the challenge,
I fucked up,
and hearing that to me,
was just like, oh,
you're not doing good.
So I might be going home,
and it fucking sucks.
And mark.
Ooh. Whew.
My God, girls, we runwayed!
Hello?
Yes!
First motherfucking runway.
And my feet hurt. [all laugh]
Ooh.
Oh, you're the best.
Oh, wow, wow, wow.
You guys, we just got critiqued
for the first time.
- [laughs]
- We just got slayed.
That was the first runway
on the main stage.
- How do you guys feel?
- Ugh.
I mean, I'm pretty pleased
with what they said.
I was nervous about, like,
my fashion show critiques,
because I felt that
everybody was, like,
over the top
with their fashion show,
and I was, like, simple,
like, fishy.
I think you represented
yourself well, though.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I told you that,
so, like, girl,
like, girls can come in here
with custom costumes,
but, like, you know,
the costume is wearing them.
It's how you sell the garment,
and how the judges,
like, see you.
And I'm sure you went on
that runway, like, stormed.
I really appreciated
what Michelle said
about, like, my skin color.
Because, like, growing up,
my skin color
was something people picked on,
like, for being dark-skinned.
Tonight was my favorite
look of yours,
because your skin
is the most beautiful color.
So when you came out
in this yellow, 24-karat gold,
and you've got that
delicious, rich skin color,
it just all played perfectly.
To hear her compliment it
was just, like... [sighs].
Like, a moment for me. [laughs]
Not only complimented,
but she was in love, honey.
She was in love.
It was just like, oh, my God.
Like, Michelle
is, like, saying this.
And, like, with you,
everything that you do,
it's so, like, I believe her.
I love you.
I think you're so great.
- Me, too.
- I think you're so great.
I'm not gonna cry this season.
They're not gonna get me
on camera crying, baby.
How you feeling, sis?
I don't know. I don't know.
I feel like they are obviously,
like, impressed
with my personality,
like, and me, like, as a person.
And they liked your outfit.
It was, like, 50/50
on the fashion show.
And they really liked
the outfit tonight,
but I also was the only one
that got the worst critique
out of the entire performance.
What did they say
that was "worst?"
It was just, like, we could
tell that you fucked up.
When you mess up your choreo,
don't let it show in your cara.
The minute that happened,
we saw you going,
like, full-on panic.
And I knew onstage
when I was doing it,
when I messed up, in my head,
I was, like, oh, fuck,
there goes my opportunity.
I feel like they were
just saying that
that, like, you have
such a strong personality
that, like, I feel like you,
out of anyone,
should be the one to, like,
yeah, I fucked up, bitch.
Like, look at it.
That's, I feel, like,
what they meant.
I think I was just
so, like, in the mood
of, like, all right,
let me impress Ru,
let me, like, go.
And, like, I was just
so in my own solo
that I completely forgot
about the chorus
and, like, joining
back into the choreo.
And then when I realized,
I was, like, oh.
But you were still you,
and that's the point they made
is, like, all right,
you might have forgot it,
but we couldn't take
our eyes off you.
And they said
you're unpredictable,
and that's something
you can't just learn.
- No, and they liked that.
- Mm-hmm.
You're unpredictable,
just like your test results.
[all laugh]
Nina, how do you feel about
everything they said to you?
What did you say?
Did you say "Nina?"
Ooh!
- Did I say Nina?
- She said Nina.
- Aah!
- Did she just call me Nina?
Did you call me,
like, Nina West?
- That's wild, sis.
- Who's Nina?
Yeah, Nina West. [all laugh]
This is why you got
sent home three times
in the first episode.
[all laugh] Damn.
- Tina. Tina, bitch.
- Listen, Tina,
I don't think that anyone
could have gone on that stage
and gotten the critiques
that you got.
- Bitch, they live for you.
- They are obsessed with the fact
that you are on RuPaul's
Drag Race Season 13.
- Yeah.
- I mean, I'm happy.
Like, I really meant it,
like, when I said, like,
I think if I would have
come at any other time,
like, it would have been
a different journey for me.
The one thing I always have to
take with me when I'm in drag,
and, like, even in my career,
is, like, you always
have to still be scared
and still be humble,
you know what I mean?
Like, it was such
a humbling experience.
And, like, attention to detail
is something that I've always
tried to instill
in, like, any, like, my drag
family and stuff like that.
And she's such that girl, too.
And you know what I mean?
I'm just, like, girl,
you don't wanna miss that beat.
You don't wanna crush that,
you know?
I mean, the only thing
that took away
is me, you know, making love
to the camera, bitch.
I'm gonna get some lubrication,
we gonna make it happen.
I'm gonna borrow it
from your room, Kandy.
Right, like your OnlyFans video.
- Just think of that.
- Oh, bitch!
Now, Miss Elliott,
as someone who was sent home
and got brought back
into a new group,
which is not easy
to walk into a room
with six other bitches,
how are you feeling?
I'm really overwhelmed.
Like, you guys literally
didn't even try to bombard me
with, like, "Why are you here?"
Except for her.
She was, like, bitch,
you were sent home.
Well, that's...
I had reason to question.
No, but, like, as a whole,
you guys really
didn't even hesitate
to go, you know what?
We seven now.
What's the tea?
No, fuck the other bitches.
You know what I'm saying?
I mean, it's hard
not to feel like that.
Think of me walking into the
room with you guys like I did,
and then instantly
us going, okay,
which one of us
has to leave now?
- Mm.
- Yeah.
- Like, that's what happened.
- It's true.
So, this, I'm so thankful for
even the little amount of time.
Because even if I go home
tonight, again...
[laughs]
- Make it four times.
- Four times.
A legendary moment for you.
Yeah, it's crazy,
because, I mean,
I almost have a little bit
of guilt for it,
if it were not to be me.
But at the same time, like,
I want the opportunity
to compete
just like everyone else.
It was literally
taken away from me
the second I rolled in, and...
Are you all right, Kandy?
No, Kandy.
- Don't cry, girl.
- No, Kandy!
Do we have some tissue?
[exhales]
I just worked
so hard to be here,
and, like, the thought
of my having to lip sync
and, like, going home tonight
is, like, terrifying to me.
Because, like, my sister
went home first last time,
and, like, here I am again
in the same position.
There's just so much people
back at home rooting for me,
and I just don't
wanna be, like...
- Come on, girl.
- Oh, my God.
And, like, the reality is, like,
yeah, we're in a competition,
but, like, when
you're put in the position
of, like, hi, yeah, like, you
fucked up in the challenge,
it's, like, oh.
The reality sets in.
Like, you know, I can have
all this personality,
but if I'm not applying it,
then it doesn't matter
on the main stage,
and that's what matters,
and that's what
they're looking at.
And I just...
What's bothering me the most
and what's, like, in my gut
is, like, if I lip sync tonight
and end up going home,
and those bitches
get to come back here.
Like, I've worked my ass off.
I made sure that in that fashion
show I went outside of the box.
Yeah, I fucked up
in the performance,
but you can't tell me that just
out of that little single part
that I fucked up that I wasn't
good in the entire thing.
I was going ham on that stage.
And I think that my runway look
tonight is really fucking cute.
And I'm trying to show people
that you can be a big girl
and be sexy
and be fashion forward,
and it doesn't have to be
comedy and all that.
So if I have to go home
and some other bitches
walk in here,
I'm gonna be pissed
the fuck off.
We all will.
That's 100% valid.
Thank you.
Coming to Drag Race,
you never really expect
to make sisters
and really great friends.
Although we're competitors
and we're competing
for the crown,
they are very supportive,
and they really
make me feel so good
about everything I've done
so far in this competition.
So who do y'all think
out of everybody is the top
and who's the bottom?
- I'm definitely in the bottom.
- You think?
I feel like if it was off
of the critiques,
it would be, like,
me and Kandy in the bottom.
I think you were so concerned
with your dance steps
and remembering
the choreography...
- Mm.
- Yes. [laughs]
...that you were losing
the performance.
And then I would think...
Um, I don't know who's...
Between you three.
The top can really be,
like, any one of you four.
Like, everybody
got great critiques.
Because they really are
in love with y'all,
and they're in love with
you two bitches over there.
- Yeah.
- Which is wild.
Like, that makes me so happy.
That's great.
Mik, how do you feel?
Yeah, how you feeling about
your lyrics, or how do you...
You think
you delivered them well?
Olivia was the first person
that asked me about my lyrics,
and it's just been
really hard for me.
So it's now or never.
I have to tell these girls
why I wrote those lyrics,
why I was kind of
being weird in rehearsal.
The time is now.
This week was one of the most
emotional weeks of my life,
just because when we
went into the rehearsal,
I was just
kind of taken off-guard,
because, I mean,
I haven't talked to you guys
about my gender situation
and all that.
And so just, like,
when I got out there,
I was kind of just paralyzed,
and, like,
so not in the moment at all.
I couldn't take anything in,
just because, you know,
like, I'm a transgender guy
that does drag.
Even though
we did a song together,
and her saying it in the lyrics,
it didn't hit me.
I didn't realize
that's what she was saying.
Now I get why
the whole rehearsal
she was flustered and she
seemed,
like, overwhelmed.
It was, like, oh, my God.
And even, like, now, it's just,
like... it still is like, why?
It was just a lot.
Transitioning's just a really
insane emotional rollercoaster,
and you just have to
kind of be prepared for it
and train yourself
on how to deal with it.
I mean, let me tell you,
you are opening doors.
- Yeah.
- You are.
You are a trailblazer, honey.
Because to be the first
trans man on RuPaul's Drag Race?
Yeah.
- Iconic behavior.
- I'm so proud of it. Thanks.
Trailblazer.
You just deserve it for you,
though.
It doesn't matter
what your past is.
It doesn't matter...
Like, you're you, you're Mik.
Down. Seeing the vulnerable side
of Mik really is...
It's an eye-opener for me.
And I just wanna, like, hug him,
just be like, it's okay
to be yourself with us.
You're making history,
and you're gonna be
such an icon
for so many trans men.
They don't have
a presentation out there.
And I really admire Mik
for really opening up to us.
I'm just so happy to be here,
and I'm so happy
to talk about it.
- Yeah!
- Yes!
But it was fucked up,
and then I just felt so bad.
Because I was, like, oh, my God,
they just think, like,
I'm not paying attention.
But I was, like,
literally paralyzed.
It was awful.
Sorry you felt that way,
but I hope you just felt,
like, our love regardless.
The minute you walked up,
I said, "Competition."
You know what I mean?
It wasn't...
It's not like...
You just have a good soul.
And also, we're in
a drag competition
where your talents matter.
Yep, they matter.
- Throw it on the table.
- Yes.
We kind of talked about it
at the mirrors,
and I wanna say it again,
because I feel like
I speak for everyone
when I say, like,
it felt so amazing on stage
to be with you in that moment.
Because I know that that was
a really big moment for you.
And it just was,
like, really awesome
to connect with you
on that level.
- Thank you, guys.
- It's special.
I don't know
what I was expecting,
but everyone's
just really supportive.
I just feel so accepted,
so loved, so validated,
and so happy.
I know we're, like,
only two weeks in,
but do you guys feel like
you've learned something?
I don't know about y'all, but
I'm learning, like, patience.
- Oh, okay.
- Ooh.
New York is, like,
so fast moving,
and we're so used to, like,
what we have and who we do.
And, like, in New York,
you know,
I'm used to doing my own shows.
So being here
in a mix with people
and we're all, like,
on the same level,
it's taught me
to just take a step back,
you know what I mean?
And, like, look at everything
from a different light,
you know?
- Totally.
- And it's vulnerable.
And, like, I don't have
vulnerability in New York.
You know what I mean?
Like, I'm safe.
I'm in my bubble,
no pun intended.
You know what I'm saying?
It's, like... it's weird.
And now I'm super-exposed,
and I'm super-exposed
with people, you know,
I don't really know that well.
So it's, like, it's...
Yeah, it's weird.
I think it's also,
like, being in New York
and seeing that type of drag
is amazing,
and a lot of people think
going to New York, like,
that is the hub
and the premiere drag scene.
And that's honestly
why I went to New York.
But being here and seeing drag
from, like, everywhere...
From L.A., from Atlanta,
from Texas,
- it's so awesome.
- It is really fun.
I know I'm learning something
new every single day.
- Yeah.
- Looking at each person,
I'm, like, I wouldn't
have thought of that.
I wouldn't have thought
of this coat.
Bitch, none of this
I would have thought of.
[all laugh]
I love looking
at everyone's looks.
Like, it's my favorite thing.
Just to see everyone interpret
the challenge in their own way.
- I love it.
- Exactly, that's what it is.
- To see how everybody thinks.
- Totally.
Well, I learned that this was
called "la-may" and not "lame."
[all laugh] Aah!
That's what I learned.
Uh-uh!
The challenge was lame.
I didn't know
what that word was.
Thank God for smart people
in my life.
Girls, after this elimination,
the reality is that
those other bitches...
Yeah.
Maybe there's a twist, though.
Maybe it's something...
I don't know.
No, we don't know, honey.
Whether someone
goes home or not,
those bitches are coming.
Oop.
And may the best woman win.
- Amen.
- Hey.
Director:
Break on the main stage.
Kandy, how you feeling?
She's chilling out, honey.
How you feeling
with the lip sync?
I mean, it's just a lot.
It's a lot.
It's a lot quick.
- Against Kandy?
- Yeah.
I mean, we're all gonna
have to do it sometime.
That's how we all... we're all
up for elimination, you know?
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna
lip sync at this point,
and I'm gonna be lip syncing
against Kandy,
and that fucking sucks.
It doesn't define, like,
how we are
with each other, though.
- No, it doesn't.
- You know?
It's just one of those things
that is inevitable.
It's inevitable,
and we're all up for it.
Nobody's... like, nobody's safe.
What's the tea?
Just thinking about
lip syncing against you.
I love even when
you can go from crying
to walking into a conversation
and just go like this.
And you go like this:
"What's the tea?"
Girl, it's just you and me
out there.
- Go ham. Go off.
- I mean, I will, but...
Don't hold back, because
I'm not gonna hold back.
Yeah. I wouldn't.
- I love you.
- I love you fucker, too.
I hate this.
Me, too.
I love Kandy,
so just the thought
of having to do a lip sync
against one of my closest
friends in this competition
is fucking scary.
I...
Mm. I hate this.
Girl, if we're both good,
guess what?
They're gonna have
to keep us both.
True.
There you go.
Listen, it's gonna be a moment.
I'm optimistic.
I ain't going
no-motherfucking-where.
And if I gotta go somewhere,
y'all better roll them cameras,
because I'm gonna
go up to RuPaul.
[knock knock knock]
Let me have a word with you.
I'm not going nowhere.
If you got up in my face
and you were like,
"I ain't going nowhere,"
I'd be like,
"You can stay, bitch."
[laughs]
Aah!
10 minutes, Queens. 10 minutes.
All right.
This lip sync against Kandy
is the last thing I wanna do.
Maybe one of the last people
I want to do it against.
I'm freaking out.
But I'm going to do
whatever it takes
to prove that
I deserve to be here.
I am so scared and terrified
of the possibility
of being in the bottom two.
I don't wanna go home.
I've worked so hard
to get to where I am right now
and to get on Drag Race.
And I am beating myself up
over the fact that
I fucked up the choreography.
But if I'm in the bottom two,
I will be performing my ass off
on that main stage.
All right, Queens, follow me.
Off to the main stage.
Here we go.
Wait, we need shoes
and stuff, right?
I'm so happy
to be here with you.
- Yes, girl, same, yes.
- Oh, my God.
I'm glad they voted you
off the island, girl.
So I can come
to the good island.
- To the good island, okay?
- Okay?
I don't have my slippers.
Bitch, shut up, let's go.
RuPaul: Welcome back, ladies.
Olivia Lux, Symone,
con-drag-ulations.
You are the top two queens
of the week.
The rest of you are safe.
Olivia Lux, Symone,
the time has come
for you to lip sync
for the win.
Symone...
you're a winner, baby.
Olivia Lux, you're safe
to slay another day.
Now let the music play!
♪ I'm a winner ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
♪ I'm a winner ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
♪ I'm a winner ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
♪ I'm a winner ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
♪ I'm a winner ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
♪ I'm a winner ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
♪ Losers, weepers ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
♪ Finders, keepers ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪
♪ Losers, weepers ♪
♪ I'm a winner, baby ♪