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- Hey, I'm Jamila Mustafa,
and welcome to "Fresh Out Live".
The show that's bringing you new music,
pop culture news, and all your favorite artists
in one place.
Today we have some of the cast from HBO Max's new show,
"Legendary" joining us.
And trust me, it will be a legendary interview
But first, let's jump into what's new in music this week.
Mother Monster AKA Miss Lady Gaga is back
with her first album since 2016.
Chromatica is here and if "Rain on Me"
featuring Ariana Grande was just a snack,
then this album is a full course meal, bon appetit.
And Kygo gave us his third album, Golden Hour,
which features One Republic, Tyga, and Zara Larsson.
Next up, the category is legendary,
and our guests don't play when it's time to slay.
They're new ballroom series, "Legendary",
is out now and it is show stopping.
Thank you so much, Jameela Jamil,
Leiomy Maldonado, and Dashaun Wesley for joining us today.
What's going on?
- Hi.
- Hello, how are you?
- Hello.
- This is super exciting.
So let's just dive into it.
Jameela, you not only are a fabulous judge on this show,
but you have the privilege of executive producing
this project, just tell us about "Legendary".
- "Legendary", in my opinion is just,
it's a show that we need so badly.
And it's still come around too late,
but better late than never.
And it's a show where we finally get a chance
to show the world where are all of the things that we love
most about dance, about language, about music,
about art, all of these things come from ballroom,
and they've been appropriated by other people.
And so now it's time to give props and to give money
and to give a world stage to the people
that created all of the things that we love.
- Leiomy, you are an icon and a legend
when it comes to the ballroom scene.
And out of all the judges, you have to most experience,
tell us about ballroom.
What is it?
- Ballroom, overall, it was created for a safe haven
for the LGBT community.
We didn't have a place that we could call our own
where we could celebrate our own talent.
So that's where ballroom started.
Ballroom, overall, it's a competition.
It's basically, you put together what is called a house,
and you have a mother and a father, your leaders,
and they have kids.
Within that house, you find different talents
and you find different ways to incorporate that at a ball.
So you put together your kids,
and you helped them prepare with their talents,
and you basically go out to a ball and you showcase,
and you're battling other houses to see
who's got the best talent.
And you know, who's gonna shine the best.
- We've seen it all, the performances, the dancing,
the hair, the flips, I mean, the works.
But when it comes to judging a house,
what do you guys look for to selecting a superior house?
- I'm looking for the team who bring everything.
I want the passion, I want the sense of family,
I want the entertainment, I want talent,
and Leiomy taught me to look for precision.
Because as a newcomer, I was still just bowled over
by the theatrics, and by how stunning everyone was,
but Leoimy was very good at like, holding of the judges
to a standard.
And Leoimy taught all of us to make sure
that we found ourselves the number one,
technically brilliant and overall ideal house.
- First of all, I feel like a lot of people
don't take their time to get to know themselves.
As an artist, it's very important to know who you are
and what is your brand.
What do you stand for?
A lot of people,
they want fame.
The advice that I give people is to stay true to yourself,
no matter what your journey takes your through,
because that's something, that for me,
it's a powerful thing.
I've been true to myself since day one.
I've never changed no matter what places I've been to,
what doors I've broke down, I've stayed true to myself,
and that's important.
- I love it, I love it.
I know that is very tough competition
and you have a tough chamber of judges,
but which judge is the toughest?
- I think we can all agree about who is the toughest judge
to impress on that panel,
and I'm gonna give it to Law Roach.
Law is one tough cookie.
But you know what, I think that's so great,
again you have sometimes receive the tough love
in order to step up of the things that you lack,
you may not know, or even pick up a new idea
or creativity on something that you didn't know you have,
so I think Law is very tough, baby.
Oh, he's a tough one.
I'm here for it. - Ladies, do you agree?
- Yes, I definitely agree, and coming from ballroom,
Law is needed on the show.
Like, Law might not be as knowledgeable
and he's not a part of the ballroom scene,
but what he brings,
like the presence that he brings is very important.
Ballroom scene is tough, Dashaun knows,
like, it wasn't easy for us.
They didn't just give us roses,
I had to walk through coal before I got to walk
you know, through good floors, for real, honestly,
so it's needed.
I love it, I honestly love it.
It can be a little stern sometimes,
it can be a little too much,
a little too, too much, but it's needed.
I feel like it's needed, it's a balance.
- Now we know that these houses are definitely serving looks
on this show, but you guys also slay outside of the stage.
We're talking about red carpets, appearances,
so me and the Fresh Out crew
decided to have a little fun, okay?
We're gonna show you a photo of a look
that you were dressed in,
and you have to give us the inspiration
and the backstory behind it.
Jameela, we're gonna start with you.
Here's your photo.
- Oh yeah, okay, fine,
this is when I looked like an expensive Transformer.
I was wearing Belmain, and I was styled by Law
who is my real life stylist.
And I used to hide my shoulders
when I was younger, because I was always made fun of
for having broad shoulders and being super tall,
and people used to belittle me for that,
and as I've grown older,
I've grown to love my big, broad shoulders
that help me carry the weight of the world.
So I've decided to get very into shoulder pads
and Law took that way to the extreme,
and that was an interesting new, fresh choice for me.
- Miss Maldonado, tell us about this look.
- Oh, yes, I remember this look.
It was for season one of "Pose",
so for me, it was extremely, extremely, extremely important.
That day was so crazy, because I literally found something
to wear literally like two hours before the event.
I made my wig that day,
like, I put together my wig that day.
I cut it.
I did my own hair and makeup.
And I had to make sure that I made that red carpet.
- And last but not least, Dashaun,
I know you have a story for this look.
- So that was season one, the premiere of "Pose",
and I had like an hour or two just to get an outfit together
and I had a good friend who I was dressed by, Deltavio,
and I ran to Deltavio's house in Harlem ,
grabbed some clothes, came back,
threw on an outfit, left the dressing room,
went on the red carpet, done from the red carpet,
and went right back to the back
to get ready for the performance.
I was not playing, baby.
- All right, well, thank you so much,
Jameela, Leiomy, Dashaun.
Unfortunately, Megan Thee Stallion and Law Roach
couldn't be with us today on "Fresh Out",
but if you do tune into the show on HBO Max's "Legendary",
then you can see your favorite judges,
your favorite houses right now.
Thank you guys so much for kicking it with us.
I'm your girl, Jamila Mustafa,
and you already know the vibe.
Next week we're back with another episode
of "Fresh Out Live", peace.
- Thank you. - Bye.
- Yeah!
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