- OK, give us your best RuPaul impression.
- OK, ready?
(laughing)
Win!
- Win!
- Hello, hello, hello!
- Everybody say love.
- OK!
- How's your head?
- Ru loves to tie her tiny little hands together
like this.
- [Jackie] Work, Jan, yes, that is very Ru.
- He never moves his head, just his eyes.
- As gay people, we get to choose our family.
Shantay, you both stay.
(laughing)
- [Brita] I'm sorry my dear,
you are up
for elimi-nation.
- Bring back my girls.
- Girls! - Girls!
- The time has come.
- For you to lip sync for your life.
- To lip sync for your life!
(squealing)
- [Both] Good luck and don't (beep) it up.
- Hey y'all.
- We're the cast of Season 12
- of 'RuPaul's Drag Race,'
- and we're about to
- [Together] Dive in with MTV News.
- We did it! - Yeah!
- [Jackie] Dive in, girl.
- Of course I'd grab this question.
Who's the trade of season 12?
(laughing)
- None. - One, two, three.
- Jaida.
- I think Jaida is the proclaimed,
because Jaida says, "Trade is a feeling."
- [Jaida] OK, yes.
This is 2020, we are not chasing straight men anymore.
If somebody is fine, OK?
And you wanna take them home,
or I believe somebody will want to take me somewhere.
Maybe not home, but I'm sexy a little bit, maybe.
- Denny's, Applebee's.
I would take you to Applebee's, girl.
- Two for 20?
- The one at the Bayshore mall.
Girl! - Oh my god!
They closed it.
- Jaida the trader.
- No, you think it's Jaida?
I think it's Crystal, I think Crystal.
- I actually think Crystal is really cute, too.
- I've never met a mullet I didn't like
and yours is so pretty. - Thank you so much.
- And Crystal's is top-notch.
- It's a top-notch mullet.
- But I have to say, I think that the fans
are really gravitating towards Miss Jackie Cox.
- Jackie looks like a man,
or maybe it's just that picture
of when she used to work out.
(laughing)
- Oh my God.
Jackie is definitely the person that you wanna go
live in a cul-de-sac with.
- Can you see me blush under this pounds of make up?
- It's called Ben Nye, baby.
- Baby, it is called Sherwin Williams.
- Everybody is so attractive.
- Give the person next to you a new drag name.
- Since I'm naming you, you're probably my drag daughter,
so I'll name you Pull Out Method.
- Based on your look today,
I'm gonna say Britney Essence Spears.
- Tea.
- I'm gonna have to call you Poop Chute.
- Bebe Bad, how about--
(laughing)
- It's really interesting
choosing a new drag name for people
because you have to really just figure out what
your style is.
Everyone has a reason for their drag name.
Let's say...
- This is called stalling or vamping,
as they say in the theater.
(laughing)
- I'm gonna say Gordita Crunch.
- Ooh, hot!
- 'Cause she's cheesy and crunchy.
- Oh, you're a monster.
- I think it's gonna be Jackie O. Cox.
- Work! - Yes, work.
- Anita Man. - I have two.
- Well, I Anita Third then.
(laughing)
- I feel like it would be something witchy
like Blair Bitch.
- Cute. - Right, yeah!
- I'm changing it.
- There you go (laughing).
- Your new drag name is now Patti O. Furniture
from the legendary house of Furniture.
- That is so beautiful.
- Supple. - Supple?
- That's what it is, that's your new name, bitch.
- I'll take that. - With four S's.
- Four, it's three, how dare you try to rebrand my thing.
- Let's keep it water themed.
Tap Water.
- There you go, come on, sis.
- Tap Water. - Good old, just Tap.
- Just good old Tap Water. - It's like Jan.
Just one syllable, Tap.
(laughing)
- I think you can give me anything.
Anything's up from Jan.
- I will go--
(laughing)
- Even Rebecca's fine.
- Maybe, like, Jan Spook!
- Jan Spook. - Ooh!
- Pass.
(laughing)
- All right, this is cute.
What's your tried and true lip sync move?
You know, I feel like a good windmill
always pleases the crowd.
- Yes!
- A little snap up, snap down,
windmill, windmill, windmill, flick.
- Oh, the drag eight count.
- The hand in the air, the hips going, a snap.
- Bitch, I love a pivot turn, sis.
- A mean step touch, or a joyous step touch,
however I'm feeling.
- Opening my mouth as wide as I possibly can.
- Can you do it over this? - Gaping.
(screaming)
- Bat my eyelashes, you know?
I like to show my natural eyelashes.
- Probably this.
Give me your money.
- Let's be honest, girl, when the words are not super there,
it's one of these.
♪ Do do do do do do ♪
- If you don't know all the words
and you see somebody and you're like
"Oh my God, Harry, what are you doing here?"
♪ I'm not that innocent ♪
- A sliding split where you run
and go into a split and slide across the floor.
- The explosion split,
then when I hit the ground it's like
"Are you all right down there?"
It's like "Yeah, it's been numb for years."
- [Heidi] I love a good split.
- Yeah, I can't touch my toes.
- Whenever a song says baby
you just mime that you have a baby in your hand.
- Oh yeah. - That's it,
and then when you stop saying baby
you just put it on the ground gently
and then you walk away from it.
- I usually kick it and then look.
- Oh my God.
- [Rock] And then you point and see how far it went.
- I hope nobody leaves their kids
with either of these two.
(laughing)
- [Dahlia] Do you mind holding this, darling?
- Not at all.
- And the last question, ooh.
- This season's cast was announced under the theme
"Queen for President."
How do you use your drag to effect change?
- I love taking people away
from all the bull(beep) in the world.
I think it's also important that since we do have
this incredible platform,
you aren't gonna ignore a seven foot man in heels
with a giant wig and within our community
and we have a microphone in our hand every single day,
so I think people are gonna listen to what we say
and we better say something good that will change the world.
- I mean, I use my drag to try to empower
other people of color to live your truth, live your life,
be proud of the skin that you're in.
You didn't ask to be this color,
but you should enjoy this color.
This color comes from a rich, long lineage
of people who fought for you to be free
and live your life.
- I use my drag to help younger generation
to know that there is a gray area in gender.
- And by accepting ourselves, other people can look inwards
and accept themselves too.
It's just amazing to share self expression
and show people that it's OK
and even underneath this facade, that, you know,
there's all the glitz and the glamor,
but we're all just people, too
and we can connect with anybody
if we just have an open mind and an open heart.
- That's a facade? I thought that was just your face.
(laughing)
- Work.
- You're wearing make up?
- I woke up like this.