- Hi guys, my name is Yuhua Hamasaki
from RuPaul's Drag Race season 10.
I'm here with my dear sister from New York City as well is
- Dusty Ray Bottoms.
Hi everybody!
- We're so excited, but we're also very, very, very sad
because it's the end.
- It's the very end, girl.
The bitter end.
- Aw, we both lost.
How sad.
(whimpers)
- Are you bitter, though?
- No, but I finally, finally can show the world
what I'm all about, so I'm very, very, very grateful
for all these opportunities.
- Absolutely, girl.
So Yuhua, since we've been back from Drag Race,
how has your life changed?
- Oh, it has changed drastically.
I mean, I'm going to places I've never gone to before.
I'm traveling the world.
I'm making money.
I'm getting to meet a bunch of people.
Before, the furthest I've ever gone was New Jersey,
and now I'm going to
the East side. - Jersey!
- [Yuhua] The West side, different continents.
- Everywhere.
- So I'm very, very grateful
and I thank RuPaul's Drag Race for everything.
- That's so awesome.
- What about you?
- I would have to say the same.
Before Drag Race, I was only performing
in New York City, Fire Island,
and now, girl, we're doing the whole world.
- All over the wold, girl!
Maybe soon we'll be going to Mars or Jupiter.
- And how cool is it to be able the walk down the street
and have someone yell your name.
- They usually yell at me Gia Gunn, but I'll take it.
(both laugh)
Believe it or not, I was in a hotel,
checking into Fresno and the person says to me,
"Oh my god, you look so familiar.
"Where are you from?"
I was like, "Yeah, Drag Race."
"Wait, what season were you from?
"Season six, right?"
I'm like girl!
Wrong Asian.
I mean, I know we all look alike,
but we taste differently.
- That's so funny.
- Yeah, what about you?
- You're terrible.
I think there was this one time I was on the elevator,
and this lady stopped me and she looked at my makeup,
and I was just in boy clothes and a painted face,
going to the gig, you know?
And she was like, "Has anyone ever told you
"that your makeup resembles Dusty Ray Bottoms?"
- You're like, that's me, girl!
- I was like I am Dusty Ray Bottoms,
and she literally had a meltdown.
It was the funniest thing ever.
She was like a 57-year-old woman.
- [Yuhua] So Dusty, if you had the chance to stay longer,
what do you think and how do you think
the outcomes would've been for you?
- Well, I think if the beginning
of the competition were a little different for me,
I think if I didn't get critiques
on my makeup on the first episode--
- [Yuhua] I love your makeup, by the way.
- [Dusty] Thank you very much.
- [Yuhua] It's very unique, it's you,
and I don't think you should be judged
on what your signature makeup should be.
- [Dusty] Right, give me a minute.
See what I can do and then--
- [Yuhua] Wait until you're top four,
then start judging you, right?
- Right, or at least wait till like the third
or fourth episode and be like okay girl, we've seen it now.
Show us what you really got.
You know, hearing that really shook me.
I remember sitting next to Monet X Change
every time we would paint our face,
like for a mini challenge or for a maxi challenge,
and I would look over when I was finished.
I was like, do I look okay?
And she's like yeah, girl.
She's like why do you keep asking me?
'Cause I couldn't judge.
I was trying to do what everyone else was doing around me,
and I couldn't keep it straight.
It's actually kind of now,
if I ever wanna leave the house and not do a dot,
I will get read for filth.
(Yuhua laughs)
Dusty left the house with no dots today.
Michelle is shook.
(laughs)
- She listened! - She listened.
- How dare she.
I love it. - And then also who else
in the cast isn't getting their makeup done all the time?
In DragCon, I saw my makeup on a sea of people
and it was just so awesome. - Exactly.
Because you've made an impact.
- Yeah!
I'm a really strong actor.
I loved the acting challenges and--
- You killed it.
- And yeah, I just feel like the next episode
after I would've gone would've been my episode,
because it was an acting challenge.
- Exactly. - I would've slayed that,
and my denim and diamonds look was everything, henny.
And I know that I would've slayed that as well.
From walking into the workroom and meeting these girls,
and going through the experience,
and now that we've been home and working with each other,
and been touring who do you think has been super,
super different from their Drag Race persona?
- Eureka O'Hara.
I mean, from what I saw from season nine,
she was completely different.
From season nine she was shown
as someone who's loud, selfish, obnoxious,
but she was a completely different person
that we saw for season 10.
She was loving, caring, a big sister to all of us.
She made sure that when we walk out of those doors
after post-production that we were ready for the world,
to navigate through this crazy lifestyle
that RuPaul's Drag Race is going to give us,
so I thought she was a completely different person.
- Wow, okay. - What about for you?
- I would say two people stand out in my mind.
For sure The Vixen.
I remember coming home from Drag Race
and telling my fiancee I did not like The Vixen.
I was like, we had it out.
Then we went back and we taped Whatcha Packin',
and I was able to hang out with her,
and we had a little moment on the balcony
where we talked everything out,
and then from that moment on,
she has been the kindest, sweetest.
I just love her energy.
She's so chill.
She's so awesome.
And another person that I find very different
from Drag Race to now I would
think would be Kameron Michaels.
The only time Kameron Michaels speaks
is when he's by himself and on an Instagram story.
- [Yuhua] (laughs) She's very, very quiet.
I'll give you that.
- [Dusty] And seeing that, she's so personable,
has all this personality and is so talkative,
but I've never seen her in person ever, ever do that.
- [Yuhua] Exactly.
- [Dusty] That's very jarring to see that now.
- Dusty, what was your experience like
to lip sync for your life?
- [Dusty] Literally one of the most terrifying things ever.
First you're so exhausted.
You're strung out from the day.
We did three runway looks that day.
It was a hellish day, and then I'm a punk girl.
I do musical theater.
I don't do top 40 hardly ever in my repertoire,
and then to get Nicki Minaj and to stay up all night
and memorize that rap and then have to do it
against my sister Monet X Change.
That was just like the light shifted.
It got dark and the spotlight's on you.
The music starts and I just felt like I blacked out.
And then I woke up with Ru saying bye girl.
(both laugh)
- I remember when she said you're in the bottom two.
My entire mouth just dried up,
and I remember asking before we lip synced for our lives,
I was like can I have a bottle of water?
I drank that entire bottle of water up,
and that lip sync was, when she says lip sync for your life,
you are literally lip syncing for your goddamn life.
- [Dusty] Every ounce of your body is living. (laughs)
- Exactly, I mean you just blank out.
All you wanna focus is making sure
that you rock it so that you stay.
- Yep.
It was so weird watching that lip sync.
- Yeah.
- 'Cause I really couldn't recall
and tell you what I did during that.
It was literally one of those moments,
you're giving everything
and then it's just over all of a sudden.
- You know what's so funny?
You say you don't do top 40s, right?
You do punk rock, and I got a punk rock song
and I don't do punk rock, and I do top 40s.
If we exchanged that would've been so much funnier.
I would've stayed for episode three,
and then you would've stayed for episode (laughs).
- Yeah, exactly.
Exactly, girl.
♪ Hey, so glad you could make it ♪
- No more air guitar, girl.
- Why did people hate it?
I don't get it.
- Aw, just it's bad.
- I don't get it! - No, we can't.
♪ Hey, ♪
♪ so glad you could make it ♪ - Stop! (laughs)
- Well, I didn't make it.
- It's just as bad as lip syncing
with a mic for no reason, girl.
- Oh yeah?
- We don't need it.
(both laugh)
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