- Hey this is RuPaul and you are on the set of
the Netflix original series AJ and the Queen.
This is the set of my apartment.
Looks like a real apartment but this is all a set.
All a set.
I have so many memories.
Sitting here, sitting there, what happens here,
kissing my boyfriend right there.
I mean it just goes on and on and on.
You don't equate RuPaul with kissing people right?
Well my character Robert kisses people.
So I get to kiss this incredibly sexy beautiful man,
Josh Segarra.
And we kiss a lot in this show.
There's one scene in this hallway where I've had to
climb the stairs in these high heel boots
so many times.
This is the biggest workout of my life.
And so there is literally three story stairs
right there that go all the way up.
This is the second level.
You know when you film something you film it so many
different angles.
You know from the bottom of the stairs,
from the top of the stairs, from the mid section.
Over and over again.
And when I say a lot of times,
what you're thinking but way more.
That was quite a workout.
I'm gonna go in this bathroom right here.
I'm not gonna stay that long in this bathroom
because it's green and I probably don't look that good
in here.
But I just wanna show you just the details of these
old time sinks, this cabinet here.
It looks so real.
And as an actor it actually helps so much.
It tricks your brain into believing you are
where you are.
This is Robert's bedroom right here.
These drag costumes are here that are so beautiful
and sparkly and fabulous.
My favorite part of getting into drag
is how it gives me power.
It's like Superman to my Clark Kent.
My least favorite part of getting into drag,
it's not very comfortable.
Me getting into drag it's an intricate system
of pulleys and weights.
Let's just put it that way.
And that ladies is why I'm the headliner.
Now we're gonna leave my movie bedroom,
Robert's bedroom and go on over to the other set
which is where our RV is.
And that's the set where Judy Garland
a Star is Born was filmed, Streetcar Named Desire,
Private Benjamin, so many many movies.
This is stage nine, we're gonna go over to stage 21
right now.
Alright, so follow me.
Oh my god.
Hi.
- Hi, oh my god.
- Oh my god.
- This is you.
- This is you. - This is me, that's you.
- This is Izzy, she plays AJ in the show.
You're a girl. - I'm a girl.
- You're a girl yeah!
This is my child.
We've had so much fun together, so much fun.
- So much fun.
- Alright follow me over to stage 21 to see the RV.
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I do a lot of my own stunts.
At one point my character has to run up
this fire escape right here.
But the stunt man they got for me
couldn't maneuver in these thigh high red boots
that I wear.
So I literally ran up this fire escape.
They put a hole in the back of my outfit
and harnessed it you know so I couldn't fall.
I'm not only RuPaul, queen of the world,
but also RuPaul queen of stunts.
I'm a stunt queen.
Welcome to stage 21, now this. - Home.
- Our RV that we, we go cross country in this RV.
And this is actually one of two RVs.
We have a stunt RV.
- We have the stunt RV like if it flips over
or it has to like drive into a wall we use that one
instead of our home one.
- Yeah, but we like this one the best.
Come on inside, we'll show you our home sweet home.
Our RV.
- And where we live and sleep and eat and drink and yeah.
- And sing and dance.
- And sing and dance and go to the bathroom
or anything like that.
- We film so many scenes where the whole camera crew
would be inside this RV with us.
No taking it apart.
Yeah, back there, in the bathroom,
I had a scene in the bathroom.
We had a scene up there on the bed, in the loft.
Where the two of us. - I had to cry.
- That's right.
- I had to give away a puppy.
- Did you, do you have a technique for crying
or do you just use what's?
- I think about something sad.
- Think about something sad, yeah.
- And if that was like a real thing,
if like, if you had to give away your puppy
that love so much but he wasn't happy
and then you had to give him away then just think of it
as real life and that's what's going on.
- What is your favorite moment in the RV?
- You were sleeping, I wake you up.
- Air guitar.
And that's your favorite moment in the RV?
- That's my favoritest moment ever.
- Now my favorite moment as AJ's father figure
in the show, I guess would have to be when we did Grease.
- Oh yeah.
- We did a number from Grease.
When we first met we just intuitively,
we were doing the steps from Grease.
She didn't know that later on we would be doing
a number from Grease.
I knew it, but I thought wow,
she knows Grease and this kid knows so.
- It's my second favorite movie.
- What's your first favorite?
- Mary Poppins. - Oh, Mary.
My first favorite is the Wizard of Oz.
- Yes.
- And it's interesting because these series Aj and the Queen
has elements of Mary Poppins, Wizard of Oz,
and Grease.
It's all in this series.
So my favorite is when we got to dance together.
Thank you for joining us during our little set tour.
Enjoy watching AJ and the Queen.
- On Netlfix.
- Yeah, come on, you ready?
- Ready. - Let's hit it.
Bye!