The advice that I got would not have applied to my personal journey. I think that’s where a lot of people go wrong, is that they actually take advice from past drag queens. I was curious if you got any advice from any of them, or had anything you learned from them that you brought in. You did makeup for a lot of Drag Race queens before you were on Drag Race. N O I’m staying idc- Gottmik April 22, 2021 And this show forces you to do it so fast, and it was so fun, like, it was everything. I was like, I just want to keep putting all those pieces together. I think that’s why I loved being there so much, ’cause I didn’t want that journey to end for me. Then to see me not even competing with anyone else, I’m just competing with myself, like trying to put the puzzle together, and it was so fun. And now, I have put them together, and it’s so fun to watch it back and see it all start clicking for me at different points. That person that walked in the room and just daintily said, “Time to crash the cis-tem” - that person had all the pieces to be America’s next drag superstar, she just didn’t know how to put them together. Watching it back on TV, you can see every single moment that it clicks for me. So you’re doing this journey with yourself, and then times ten because we’re in a pandemic. It’s amazing, because it’s like, you’re on the show - especially during the pandemic, you’re like the most isolated human to ever live on this planet. What was it like to see the reaction to that part of you being on the show? You talked on the show about this journey from worrying about being the perfect example of trans representation into realizing that you just needed to be yourself. That’s why I got on the show in the first place, so like, Chill out! I was like, Oh my God, all I have to do is not care and just have fun and trust in myself. Then the next week was Snatch Game, where I did the exact same thing, and it worked. The second, around the Rusical, that I was just like, I’m with one of my best friends, Denali, right now, we’re going to have the most fun of life, and I just started letting go and having fun, is when everything started clicking. I went in so making sure I looked a certain way and said the right things. I think it’s maybe because I went in not with that attitude. I was just talking with my editor and another writer about this interview, and they were all saying, “I just want to know Gottmik’s secret to staying chill on the show.” The finale - you have no idea - it makes my looks on the show look like I didn’t even know how to put a look together. I’m like the most carefree angel of life nowadays, ’cause I’m just so proud of every single thing I did. I think that is something I learned on Drag Race: There is no point being scared. Are you nervous, are you excited, what’s your vibe right now? You’ve filmed the finale already, and now you’re just waiting for all of us to see it and see what finally happens. Ahead of the finale, Vulture spoke to Gottmik about learning to let go, her most iconic moments, and crashing the cis-tem. And she became a fan favorite thanks to her fabulous confessionals and sweet moments with fellow queens. Along the way, she won three of Drag Race’s most iconic contests: the Ball, the Snatch Game, and the reading mini-challenge. But to hear her tell it, what she learned during the competition was more valuable. Gottmik didn’t end up winning - she lost her first-round Lip Sync for the Crown, of Britney Spears’s “Gimme More,” to Symone. “And at that moment, I was like, She actually heard what I was saying and related to it.” “Over the past few weeks before that, I could tell she was really listening to me and understanding what I was saying, and was just wanting to understand every part about my journey and my drag,” Gottmik says. That moment with RuPaul marked a final one. Gottmik would’ve been crying too, she says, “except I was on way too much testosterone.” Her Drag Race run was a series of breakthroughs, from learning how to use her natural sense of humor to figuring out she didn’t have to act a certain way to represent trans people on the show. RuPaul began to tear up as she spoke about Gottmik being an example to younger viewers, as the first out trans man to compete on the show, and congratulated the queen on her progress throughout the competition. Photo: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for VH1ĭuring Gottmik’s final runway of season 13 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, it almost seemed like she was going to take the crown.
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