- [singing] MTV
- I've been nice to everybody in this competition,
and today, I will stand my ground.
- No fucking class or decorum, honey.
- Are you serious?
- I'm fucking pissed.
- Say their name!
- This is "Untucked,"
backstage at the competition
to become America's next drag superstar.
Girl, if you're not watching "Untucked,"
you're only getting half the story.
- Five minutes to the main stage.
- Queens walking.
Prep "Untucked" cameras on the main stage.
- Rolling, rolling.
- Thank you, ladies.
I think you've heard enough from us.
While you Rate-A-Queen in the Untucked Lounge,
the judges and I will call our bookies.
[laughter]
You may leave the stage.
[dramatic electronic music]
- Ooh.
- Girl. - Ooh.
- I'm feeling fabulous after my talent show and critiques.
If everybody votes how they should,
I should be in the top this week,
so hopefully nobody's being a shady bitch.
[intense electronic music]
- I feel amazing about my critiques.
I feel like the judges are understanding who I am.
They like me!
They really like me!
- Reveal "Untucked" cameras.
- Send the queens in three, two, one.
[clacks]
- Oh!
- Girl. - Ooh.
- What?
Come on, first "Untucked."
Come on, Lil' Poundcake. - Are these the drinks?
- Oh, my goodness. - Oh, my God.
- Yes.
- Where are we sitting? Oh, my God.
Wait, I feel like I have to do it.
I feel like I have to do it. - Ah--
[rattle] [laughter]
- God.
The Untucked Lounge is back and different than before.
It looks absolutely incredible.
I'm excited to just relax, and just share what we think.
Cheers to the first Untucked!
- Cheers!
[cheering]
[laughter]
- Come on, top seven.
- Yeah. - Right.
- How's everyone feeling?
- Oh, fabulous.
- First runway, divas--how did it feel to walk down there?
- That was a lot of fun.
- I was actually not as nervous as I thought I was gonna be.
- Right. - Right?
Did you guys feel the same way?
- When you stepped around that corner and your face,
I was just like--
- Oh, thank you.
- You're so hot.
- Thank y--really?
- And your face is just still
so good. - Stop.
- Like just sitting. - You guys.
Wait, keep going, though.
- Oh!
- I was a little nervous for my reveal.
I'm just such a perfectionist.
I'm like, girl, I wish it would have gone--
[kiss] - Of course.
- Smooth sailing, but--
- Yes, yes, yes.
But you looked sexy regardless.
- Girl.
- Did anyone feel weird or not happy about their critiques?
- I mean, they all kind of thought my number was flat.
[laughs] They liked the beginning.
They, you know--they liked my personality, and, like,
you know, the smile, the face.
- They loved the bang.
- I had fun.
- Good.
- I really liked your song a lot.
- We were bopping.
- We were like-- - Absolutely.
- [singing] Bitch, I will not be defeated
Neither underestimated
All these other queens were made
I like to say I was created
- Getting to know you, you're just, like, so bubbly
and effervescent. - Thank you.
- I feel like maybe your number could have
had a little bit more of that.
But regardless, it was a bop, so I loved it.
- Thank you. - Yeah.
- It had the most writing, I think. for sure.
Like, you had the most lyrics.
- Bitch, I'm sorry.
You shocked the fuck out of me.
- Oh, my God, same. - Yeah.
- Because when you walked in, I was like,
oh, she seems a little shy.
That performance gagged me.
[laughter, cheering]
- [singing] She's such a bitch
[laughter]
- When you made the heels go clack,
that's a signature move. - Yes.
- Now you kind of shook me, 'cause when you walked
in the Werk Room, I was like--
- Bitch.
[laughter]
- Out here in some stuff she got from the Fashion Mart.
- Girl. [laughter]
- Oh, wow. - Yes, ma'am.
Ooh.
- That was, like, part of, like, the irony
of me coming out and calling you guys trash,
'cause like, that's, like, my thing--is that I'm like--
I wouldn't say trash queen, but--
- She's an ironic queen. - What was your entrance line?
I wasn't there. - Oh, she's gonna do it.
She's gonna do it. - Okay. Come on.
- She came in, she said--
- Come on.
- I hope you trash bags are ready to lose.
[laughter]
- But she didn't look like that.
[screaming]
She did not look like that.
- That's why it was funny.
- Sapphira thinks she knows all of us.
- I know a hoe when I see a hoe.
[laughter]
- Isn't there something to be said
about not letting all your cards show in your entrance?
- That's what I-- - Right?
- Yeah, I was about to say that.
- I just have so many cards.
I just keep showing them.
[laughter]
- Can we talk about how gagged they were at your costume
and the fact that you made it?
- Right.
- That's sickening, girl. - Yes.
- I don't think people understand.
Like, I do spend nights and nights
and nights putting them together,
and thinking of every detail.
- And it shows. - I know.
- It really does.
- As someone else who sews, it takes so much time,
so kudos to you for that one.
- Yes.
- And this headpiece too. It's so crunchy.
Yeah. - Thank you.
- Amanda, how did you feel about critique?
They didn't like my makeup, but I don't like my makeup either.
[laughter]
So valid.
- When you said you had never done a purple face
before, I was like--
- I have done a purple face before, but it was, like--
- She's like, well, where is it?
- Well? [laughs]
- You heard badly about your makeup, which--
- I know she wants me to paint my brows higher--
- Bigger.
- She said bigger.
Like, I think you have already a great eye shape
and stuff, you just have to extend it
further to the back.
- I think you change your face too much.
- There's all this space between your wig
and your brow bone.
- You don't use enough of your own face.
- We're gonna Marcia Marcia Marcia you the fuck out.
- Okay. [laughter]
- The girls are all staring at my face, going,
"Fix this. Fix that. Fix this."
It doesn't feel great to hear that.
But I feel like everybody just decided
to forget all the nice things they said about me.
- Your original song, "My Kitty"--super fun.
- Your timing on the lines and how you lip synced it, to me,
that's really hard to do.
That's real comedy.
- Your level of energy on that stage--
it's like you're busting out of your body.
- So I'm not mad.
- How long have you been doing drag, like--
- Since, like, 2021, so it-- it's not been that long.
- Yeah.
- Your personality is so much better than your drag.
- Oh! [laughter]
- No, I hear the compliment.
I hear the compliment in there.
- She was like, there's a compliment coming.
- I hear it.
- It's not here yet.
Is the compliment in the room with us?
[laughter]
- Most things are better than your drag.
No, but--no, like, you're just so lovely to talk to.
And I'm just like staring in your eyes.
You know what I mean?
And staring your eyes is, like, easy 'cause you're present.
- When Sapphira says my personality is
so much better than my drag,
I can tell that it's out of love.
She and I have already developed this rapport.
She's already been very helpful and very caring
in the ways that she talks to me,
so I'm not taking it as a read.
I'm taking it as honesty, which maybe is worse.
[laughs]
- When someone's present, it makes it easy
to get to know them, and also, it makes it, like you said,
easy to look past the folded breastplate under your neck.
[laughter]
Or your eyebrows being so close.
But the point is, you know, you are wonderful.
- Thank you.
- You are somebody. - Thank you.
- Who are you to read her breastplate?
Yours is hanging out right now.
[screaming, laughter]
- Oh, no. - Oh, my God.
- Honey, I wish your breastplate would've folded.
- That's right, baby.
You sure do wish it would have,
but it didn't when it needed to.
- Exactly.
- It was where it needed to be when it needed to be.
- Exactly. - Honey.
- Sapphira, your talent--
- I know. - Sapphira.
- The voice. - You kind of gagged us.
- No, I was--I was absolutely beyond gagged
because you looked so gorgeous.
[laughter]
I'm like, you can't be gorgeous,
and sing, and be funny. - It's fine.
She's annoying. - I was like,
are we on "Queen of the Universe" or something?
- That's what I was thinking.
- [singing in Italian]
[sweeping orchestral music]
What I was really gagged about is I was able
to connect with Ru in this, like,
old-school way because I am--
I am a drag queen's drag queen.
And, like, I do-- - To the T.
- I do love drag in the way
my old-school mothers just love drag.
And you know, I was floored when she was like, you--
- She got it.
- You are my kind of queen.
You're from my-- back in the day.
And I was like, yes.
- I mean, it shows. It comes through.
- Can I add that, as like a newer queen,
I am so thrilled and honoured to, like, be in this with you?
- Yes. - Just alight.
I'm so excited to get to do this with you.
- Yeah, y'all are all really wonderful, and I'm very happy.
Because the thing is, I can be a bitch,
but no one has made me want to be.
[laughter]
- Oh, it'll come.
Put a pin on that.
- Let's check in next week.
- Yes.
- I have kind of been in my head, like, all day,
and I haven't really been sharing it with the divas
because I didn't want to, like--
I don't know--make y'all think anything about it,
but I knew I looked great on the runway,
so I wasn't worried about that.
And then my number--
clearly, it read well. - Yes.
- [singing] I crashed right down here on your stage
To show you how I stay engaged
And if you cannot clearly gauge
We're only on the title page
Oh!
I didn't even know those were in there.
[laughter]
But just hearing them just, like, sing my accolades,
I was kind of, like, shook and just so happy
to hear that they understand my perspective
and my point of view because it's very not the same
as everybody else is.
It just, like, made me feel, like, so overjoyed.
- I loved it.
- I think that's why you're here, though.
- Exactly. - Yeah.
- Who do we think is in the bottom?
- Oh.
- I think it's safe to say me. - Yeah.
- And Amanda.
- [screams] Probably.
- I think so.
- Oh, wait, yeah, I agree.
If these two are in the bottom, who's going home?
- Her. [laughs]
- It ain't me. It ain't me.
- When y'all lip sync--
- It depends on the song 'cause she got energy boost.
- She has energy boost.
- I would have still sent her.
[laughter]
- You can think that, but-- [screaming]
- Miss Mandatory Meeting is going to gag the girls.
- You will find out later on.
- But what a strong group of girls.
- That's right.
- Very, very strong.
- That's right, bitch, don't forget it.
[laughter]
- I really can't tell who is in the top
'cause we all got such good critiques.
- I mean, I think the one queen that got,
like, great critiques on the runway and talent
was Q. - Yeah.
- Can I add? - Yes.
- I didn't get a single bad critique,
but yours were better. - Oh.
- I'll just say that.
I'll just say that.
But yours were better. - That's very true.
That's true.
- I didn't get one bad.
I want immunity.
[laughter]
- Realistically, if you had to say,
like, okay, if I got immunity tonight,
what would be the challenge that I think that would
come in handy for me?
- I'll say Snatch Game just because it can go either way.
Like, it's not just an improv.
It is so specific and strange.
Like, who knows what is going to happen with that?
- I struggle with picking up choreography.
That's something I struggle with.
I wouldn't be mad at immunity, girl.
I'm a very talented drag queen,
but I won't say that I don't have any, like,
thing that I'm not great at.
And if anybody in here says that they are good
at everything, they are lying.
[laughter] - And I love to lie.
- Beauties.
[screaming]
- Come here.
- Charlize Theron!
- Strut, strut. - Walk. Walk. Walk.
- The walker. The walker.
- I was gonna bring my tatas to the party too.
[laughter]
- Come sit.
Charlize Theron is an Oscar-winning
Dior model goddess supreme.
- Let's--let's kiki. Let's--
- Come on. - Spill the tea.
Let's do it.
- And she's right next to me.
Hey, girl. And I'm pink.
- Tell me everything, guys.
- Um, she's bad.
She's great. I'm just kidding.
[laughter]
- Cheers to our first episode.
- Cheers to you, divas.
- Cheers, guys.
Thank you for having me.
I'm so happy to be here.
- Thank you for being here. - I'm never leaving.
- Genuinely?
- Ooh, the eighth queen.
- Yes.
- Watch out, bitches.
- And you were such a good guest judge too.
- Really? - I loved hearing
your point of view and your critique.
- Listen, I took it as a moment that I wanted
to really, like, give you guys something that
I feel like people have given me,
which I hope you all took with my admiration
and respect and utter joy to be here.
And I love being surrounded by people who can still
make me hear them, right?
Because we so easily get to a place where,
like, I fucking know it all.
If you can't learn something every single day,
then what are you really doing?
- Right.
- I watch you guys and I learn.
Your confidence-- I was like, fuck,
I wish I had that confidence.
- Thank you. - Yeah.
- Oh, my God. I'm fucking around.
I'm just winging it, so--
[laughter]
- You're not, though. You just have it.
I need to, like, get more of that.
- Damn. Oh, my God.
- Seeing you in the Werk Room earlier and, like,
you talking about being a voice for our community--like, that
made me kind of emotional.
- And baking for us.
- Yeah.
- So I think it's so important for people
of your, like, caliber, like, to speak up for, like,
trans people and drag queens.
- You support us, and you support what we do,
and you support who we are.
Like, I just think that's really, really cool.
- It's gonna mean a lot to a lot of people.
- Yeah. - That means a lot to me
because I have two small children.
And I want them to grow up in a world
where they know what it means to accept what's not you,
what is different, and love that--
to not be scared of that, and to embrace it.
And, like, that's my job as a mom.
- You're such a good mom for that.
- Absolutely.
- There are so many people that are just grasping at straws
to find reasons to hate people because it's
easier to bring down a community than to accept them.
- It's always a little tricky, right?
I feel like we're living in a day and age
where our words can so easily be weaponised against us.
I worry about us as people,
and what we can do to each other,
and how powerful it is when you love,
and how powerful it is when you hate.
One destroys and one builds.
- Different sides of the same coin.
- Yeah.
- But I think you guys walk such a beautiful line
of having to hear it,
having to see it, having to feel it,
and then just basically fucking them all up
by just being the fabulous people that you are.
- Period. - Thank you.
- That's it.
So I have no advice.
[laughter]
- Okay. - Just be. Just be--
- Can I ask you for advice on something you
might know something about?
Fame--like, having notoriety.
Like, what was it like for you to come into that,
and deal with it and, like, having people
know who you are?
- So, for me it was really weird
because I was raised in a really small farm town
in South Africa.
And having people kind of pry into your life
in a way that didn't feel--
loving?
It felt like, how can we break you down?
How can we, like, point out things
that could make you weak?
I can't say that I've ever gotten to a place
where I'm used to it.
I'm not. - Yeah.
- Also, we didn't have cell phones back then.
- So true.
- A new era.
- No one's taking pictures of you at the supermarket.
- I might not be here.
I might have been canceled by now
if there was a cell phone around.
- No.
- There's still time.
- Yeah.
[screaming, laughter]
- I'm a big language buff, and I love languages--
- Sorry, queens, I got to take Charlize with me.
- No!
It's a South Africa question. - I know.
I'm sorry. - It's a South Africa--
It is time for you guys to get ready to Rate-A-Queen, though.
- Okay.
- How do you say "slay, queen" in Afrikaans?
- I don't know if there's an actual, like,
literal translation to it.
But I would say,
Loop fokken mooi bok.
- Loop fokken mooi bok.
- Can we cheers--
- Yes.
- The Latina way, okay? You just follow me.
One, two, three.
- Pa arriba.
all: Pa arriba.
- Pa abajo. all: Pa abajo.
- Pa'l centro. all: Pa'l centro.
- Pa dentro. all: Pa dentro.
- Arriba!
- Loop fokken mooi bok.
- I'm still so in awe that you made this.
- I know, we're like kind of matching.
- So--I'm so--
I wish I could make shit like that.
- Thank you so much. - So amazing. Yes.
- It is so surreal to have Charlize here
in this Dior number looking stunning,
and she's telling me how much she loves my look.
I am absolutely shook.
- Wild.
So speech--
- Charlize motherfucking Theron!
- Yes. - Ahh!
- Now we have to rate each other top to bottom.
- I know.
- I think it was a good showing from all of us.
- Yeah.
- I think that we are the top three.
I'm wondering what the hell it means to Rate-A-Queen.
- Yeah.
- Like, how are we gonna do this?
- I hate that I have to rank all of my sisters.
- I know.
- All right, queens, follow me.
It's time to Rate-A-Queen.
- Ooh. - Are there lipsticks?
- Let me finish this.
- Damn, my earrings fell off.
- I simply can't finish that.
- [sighs] - Oh.
- Let's get all cameras up for voting in the Werk Room.
- Copy.
- Rolling, rolling.
- [gasp]
Oh, my God. This is so nerve-racking.
- When it comes to this Rate-A-Queen situationality,
I have a feeling there are many different strategies at play.
They could vote based on friendship.
They could vote based on strategy.
And that makes it very scary
going to this first elimination.
So I'm nervous boots,
'cause I know I'm about to lip sync for my life.
- Okay.
- So here we are.
I think voting is not going to be
solely based on performance.
I'm feeling a little nervous
because I don't want to lip sync.
But if I have to, I'm about to show them
why I deserve to be here.
- And that's the motherfucking tea.
[suspenseful music]
- Welcome back, queens.
This week, no one is going home.
[cheering]
Based on the Rate-A-Queen results,
the top two queens will lip sync for the win.
Sapphira Cristál and Q,
this is your chance to impress me
and earn immunity from a future elimination.
The time has come for you to lip sync
for...the...win.
Sapphira CristГЎl,
condragulations, you're a winner, baby.
[cheers and applause]
- Oh, my God.
I just won the first challenge.
I have immunity.
I have $5,000.
Oops--I have $7,500.
Thanks, mini challenge.
And now the girls know
I'm gonna be somebody to look out for.
[holds high note]
- [singing] A little bit of love
Goes a long, long way
Lifting you up to a brighter day
A little bit of love
Goes a long, long way
Turn it around when you up and say
Everybody say love
Love, love, love, oh, oh, oh
Love, love, love
Oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Love, can you feel the love?