- My reaction was because the producer was being,
she was literally, she was being patronizing with me.
They cut all of that, and it's not like I said that
and actually walked out the room.
I said that and then I kept talking
and we were chatting through it.
(dramatic music)
- Do you regret the way you reacted
to that produced line, though?
(upbeat music)
Hello, and welcome to Drag 'N' Dine,
our weekly Drag Race elimination show
where we sit down with the racers
and talk all things Drag Race.
And today I'm with the lovely Art Simone, hello!
- Hello, that means nothing!
(Zotti laughs)
- It's sad to see you leave, but love to see you here today.
- Pleasure being here with you, through the Zoom, yes.
- You brought in a little snack for us to dine on.
- Well, I prepared my favorite Australian delicacy
and it would be a shame for it not to have a feature here.
And I've done an entire bowl of a footy franks.
So you've got these cocktail frankfurts here.
They're perfectly, they're actually just mouth size.
So you can just put a whole one in there and just go for it.
(magical music)
- Okay, so now we're going to get
into a little game called yeah or nah, snatch game edition.
So basically how this is going to work is we're going to go
through all the race's snatch game performances
and give them a yeah if we've loved it
or a nah if it was like, shit house.
- But I wasn't very good so my opinion means nothing
but let's go for it, yeah.
- To begin with, Karen From Finance as Dolly Parton.
- Well howdy, thank you!
- Yeah. I'm giving that a just in the middle yeah-nnn.
(Zotti laughs)
- [Zotti] Art Simone as Bindi Irwin.
- Yeah, I do love a good snake fluid in me mouth.
- Bindi Irwin's going to do a cease and desist
against me very soon.
I'm going to be banned for life from Australia Zoo.
I'm just upset they took out my joke where I was talking
about all the girls and I was like
"As you see Ru, I'm surrounded by
a beautiful pack of animals.
Over here we've got a mole, a mole, a mole, a mole,
and she's a dog!"
And they cut that out and I'm very upset about that.
- Well now the world will see that.
Coco Jumbo as Lizzo.
- Girl, I'm feeling good as hell!
- She was dressed as Lizzo dressed as Sailor Moon
which was too many hats for me, thank you.
- [Zotti] Anita Wigl'it as Queen Elizabeth the Second.
- You do know we've got something in common?
- Oh, what's that?
- We've got an exceptional set of family jewels.
(Ru-Paul laughing)
- Yeah, so good. - Hell yeah.
- She did really well, like very, very proud of her.
- [Zotti] Scarlet Adams as Jennifer Coolidge.
- Oh, hi Ru.
- Yeah, nah, it was a few, "yeah"
and that was about it.
Scarlet is as delusional as I was on that day.
So it's okay.
We know it.
- [Zotti] Elektra Shock as Catherine O'Hara
- You know what they say Ru, you can't have all the pigeons,
but when you do, they're probably Italian.
- It was a tough one for her because Moira, the character,
is so beloved by the queer community.
So the standard is so high for her
and the thing with Moira is like her language is so eloquent
but none of that was there, so yeah, nah.
- [Zotti] Etcetera Etcetera as Lindy Chamberlain.
I went back to the tent and the dingo got my answer!
The dingo got my answer Ru, did everyone see that?
(silly music)
- Oh, we are all going to hell for this.
- I love the Etcetera so much,
she's one of my best Judy's
and I said what I said on the show, I was like,
"are you sure you wanna do that?"
And she's like, "yeah!"
- [Zotti] Kita Mean as Dr. Seuss.
- Hello, hello, what a wonderful call!
It's a pleasure to meet you Mr. Ru-Paul.
- Nah, what they didn't air was every time
they threw to Kita, there was a 30 to 45 second
gap of silence as she thought of a rhyme.
She experienced what we all experienced,
which was her being like, "yep, okay, vulva."
(laughing)
Ru loved it and at the end of the day, it's what Ru loves.
So she did well.
- [Zotti] Maxi Shields as Magda Szubanski.
- Every time that bloody pig came near me,
I thought of breakfast.
- Yeah, nah, yeah, nah.
She did Lynn so wonderfully, she only did Lynn.
And I think the world would have allowed to do like Sharon
or Shazza or any of that.
But so she was, she was great.
She did a really amazing impersonation, full-stop.
She embodied the character
but the hard thing with snatch game is that means nothing.
- While we're on snatch game real quick, I just want to
know what are your, what's your advice for anyone going
into snatch game who thinks they like got it?
- My advice would be to do a really well-known
American character that two American judges
can understand the jokes from.
- How do you feel now about it all?
- I think at the end of the day
we watched so much drag race where at the end,
the girls are like they much for having me, it was great,
and look, bye.
The girls going to the shows now are so scared
of what the fandom and so scared of the reactions
from people at home.
Like there's one thing about me
and it's that I will show you how I feel.
You can see it on my face, I have no fucking filter.
And like I was so confused, I was lost.
I was so upset because I'd gone in with so much weight
on my shoulders to do well, came crashing down on me
when one, I was in the bottom, when I didn't expect to be
in the bottom, because it didn't make sense.
And two, then being eliminated, being like,
wait, that's over, that means I failed.
My reaction was because the producer was being
she was literally, she was being patronizing with me.
I will not ever be able to tell you what was said
before and after that.
But it's like, in that moment
it was just like, yeah, but you're here.
And I was like, that means nothing right now.
Like right now I need to be processing my emotions
because I'm upset.
I've disappointed myself, my friends, my family,
and to terms with that.
That's where that like reaction came from, it was raw.
- Do you regret the way you reacted
to that producer line though?
- No, not at all.
Because you didn't see before and after
when I was thanking everyone.
You didn't see me on the runway.
When I got eliminated, they cut it out completely.
But I said it really big thank you to Ru-Paul,
saying I've been championing
for Australian drag for so many years.
I've traveled over the world
putting a spotlight on Australian drag.
And I'm so glad
that you're here to now lift it up to this next level
because it's what I've been trying to do for so many years.
Thank you so much for this opportunity.
They cut all of that.
But, and it's not like I said that and actually walked
out the room.
I said that, and then I like kept talking
and we were chatting through it
but you can't show all of that, it's TV.
So like you saw 50 minutes of two days of filming.
So you know. - Yeah.
(magical music)
This week on the runway, the category was sea sickening.
Art Simone, today we are giving you the task
of giving out some awards.
So first up, who is your best dressed on the runway?
- Well me.
- [Zotti] Obviously.
- Didn't I clearly think it on the day?
So I'm going to stick by my stance.
- [Zotti] Worst dressed?
- Elektra Shock
Where was the sea sickening?
Well, I know that like the sick bit
but where was the rest of it?
Like she knew it though.
- [Zotti] Finally, the W-T-F award.
- I mean, I'll give it to a Etcetera Etcetera
because we were backstage and we looked at each other
and we were like, "we look so fucking good".
And I love watching back the episode.
With her big helmet on the entire time,
looking through this hole.
She had no idea what was going on.
She was like.
(all laughing)
(magical music)
- Okay, so thank you so much for coming in today.
- Thanks for having me! - Bye!
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Let us know what you thought of it all, bye!
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