02x07 - Sister Sister

[bunniefuu]

(audience cheering)

- Ooh, still ugly.

(Dramatic music)

- [Announcer] Welcome everyone

to the RuPaul's Drag
Race UK Season Two tour.

(audience cheering)

- Its, showtime!

Hahahahaha!

(Upbeat music)

- [Speaker] We probably won't
ever all be together again.

This is the only time
we can say thank you.

- Oh my God.

I saw Paul.

- [Joe] We're selling
out every place we go

and they're getting to
see drag at the finest.

(indistinct yelling)

- It's gonna be a wild show.

- [Speaker] It's amazing

- Do you feel like Tommy Lee?

(laughing)

- I've never been involved in
a production this big before.

(gasp)

- [Man] The best drag
show you ever have seen.

(camera clicking)

- [Sister Sister] It's
on an enormous scale.

It's starting.

It is wild.

The energy's amazing and we're here now.

I can't believe that
it's actually happening.

- [Audience] God shave the queens!

(audience cheering)

- Oh I am so (indistinct)

Woo!

- Good when (indistinct) compliments you.

It's what I always say.

She has terrible taste.

Terrible f*cking taste, doesn't she?

I mean, it's like I always say..

Do you know what I mean?

(laughing)

You should have been a
fly on the wall in my flat

when I was getting ready for tour.

At one point, my boyfriend
had to come over and say,

'you're allowed to change
your clothes you know?'

About day four of wearing the
same Mickey Mouse t-shirt.

There's a lot of love in the room

because you haven't
really seen these people.

We're all really nice people.

I think it's a cast of 12
lovely, annoying people.

And the most surprising thing is that -

well at this point one year has passed

since the show has come
out and we've all gone off

to do our own things and grow as people.

And we get to, one year later,

come back and just sort of
celebrate it in a really,

really positive way.

(upbeat music)

- Well, I don't know what
all the fuss is about.

It doesn't look any bigger
than the (indistinct).

- Oh, I didn't get that.

- Hi, I'm Sister Sister.

I'm 31 years old and I'm from Liverpool.

- She went down on a smurf this morning.

(all laugh)

I thought I represented very normal drag

until I started working
with other drag queens

and realized that
actually I'm a bit kooky.

Oh, hi girls.

- [All] Hi!

- This is the thing.

Sister Sister is a really funny person,

such a good sense of humor,

but it's so sad no one
saw that in Drag Race.

But what's good is they're all
seeing it now on this tour.

And everyone's getting
to see Sister Sister

being the most Sister
Sister that she can be.

- You know what?

I can't believe that it's
actually now's the time

the tour is actually happening.

If you think about when
we first even applied

for season two,

it was about two years ago.

The world's been on fire ever
since and we're here now.

It's actually, we're
here, we're in the venues.

It's starting.

It is wild.

The energy's amazing, everyone's vibing,

and everyone's super
excited about their own act.

Obviously mine's the best, shhh.

I'm the artist of the group.

Don't tell 'em, it'll
only give them a complex.

I mean, given the opportunity to perform

in these incredible theaters

that we're gonna be able to perform at,

I wanted to do something
that was quite artistic

and kind of like to my
roots as Sister Sister,

as a performer.

- Yeah Sister really celebrates
not fitting into the norm,

like the normal mold.

Very conceptual as a
performer, very conceptual.

And I think a lot of people misunderstands

where that comes from,

sees it as a surface level,

but there's so many hidden
messages in everything.

Everything is meticulously thought through

and just very clever.

- There's a moment in..

where one of the dancers
comes out with a cigarette

and then just hits 'em with the ax.

And then just calmly, not
like a big ba-da-da-da,

just takes the cigarette from their mouth

and puts it in their own mouth.

It just nuanced absurdity.

- [Veronica Green] Sister is
a very interesting artist.

It's a perfect tonic to
the rest of the cast.

- [Lawrence] Who else would
swing out giant foam axes

and throw them at sexy, sexy dancers?

- [Sister Sister] The issue
for me is I really need to be

on the timing of it
cause like one wrong move

and the whole thing just falls apart.

You really have to be on it.

If you miss a queue, it's over.

It's over mate.

May as well just take that
ax and cut me own head off.

- [Joe] No, hello, for God's
sake what are you doing here?

- We're filming a dramatic scene.

- [Joe] Oh gosh.

I'll take my top off now or? No?

- [Sister Sister] Now.

- Oh!

- I know me and you go way back,

but there's just a part
of you that really,

really holds me back.

It's time to say goodbye.

I think everyone's got their
own weird gateway into drag.

I remember when I told my
mom that I'm performing

that I'm starting doing drag.

I think she sort of translated it to

I was running away with a sex circus.

She's like,

'I just don't want you to fall
in with a really bad crowd.'

And then she came down to see me perform

for the first time in London.

She's like,

'You're not doing what I think you do.'

All right, I'm ready I'm on.

- That was quicker than your speech.

- [Sister Sister] Oh,
sh*t! Where's my wig?

Drag was always secondary to me.

I did it because I loved it.

But I think I was always
too scared to make that jump

and make it a full-time job.

I studied fine art at uni

and then went on to do interior design

and tried to cross over the
two, which sort of can do.

And then after three years I was like,

'okay, I know what's next.

I'll be a drag queen!'

Kind of started..

I was watching a couple
of makeup tutorials

and I was like oh you just get to paint.

Don't ya?

You just get to paint on a face.

So I did.

And the pictures of me,
if you can find them,

dog end but I was just like, oh what yes.

I'm saying it's work.

It's not really, it's not even work.

It's just like hanging out with your mates

and getting to do that side job gig

that you did for so long
but now you get to do it

on an enormous scale for
thousands and thousands of people.

Yeah, I don't know, that's nuts.

(crowd cheering)

Doing the tour as well,

kind of like it's brought back
all those Drag Race feelings,

so many Drag Race feelings.

I don't remember your
outfit from the beginning.

Does it make you uncomfortable

that I'm saying that I
completely disregard your outfit

and I don't remember it?

- No, because I won at the end of the day.

- The honest answer is
I'm still really really

coming to terms with the
way that I was portrayed

and also I portrayed myself
from being on Drag Race.

There was a backlash with my character

that I didn't really expect.

This is the bit that I'm still processing.

So I'm like, well I just
applied to go on a TV show

to have a laugh and then
the work that I put out

was like scorned on a giant scale.

It's complex and it really
shouldn't have to be.

It's like, if someone's doing a good job,

raise 'em up and say, 'you're
doing an amazing job.'

If you don't agree with someone on TV

you don't have to point out and go,

well I f*cking hate you for
just existing on my TV screen.

You hit that send button on a message,

it gets delivered to an inbox.

So I did what I do best and wrote,

I just wrote and submitted
something to The Guardian

to be like,

'okay I'm really feeling
the negative effects

of trolling here.'

If you can't see that it's just a TV show

then maybe turn the TV off and
go and touch grass for a bit,

like get outside.

I'm not the first person.

I won't be the last as well.

That's the most annoying thing,

you try and really put it, just like,

hold a mirror out to
society and go, listen,

this is what's happening.

I'm still processing it.

Cause even at the meet and greets,

I'm kind of scanning people to be like,

were you someone I had
to block on Twitter?

Were you someone that
gave me a death threat?

Were you one of these people?

That makes me feel really nervous.

Like unsafe, almost.

Cause you're like, well,
I'm only doing my job.

Everyone's alive.

We're trying to all vibe
and have a nice time.

Are you ready?

Okay.

So here's a tutorial on
how to become Cinderella,

from man to Cinderella in the
space of well set that time.

You ready?

- [Speaker] Yes.

- Okay.

(grunt)

That's why Ginny has to evacuate

cause I'll f*cking suffocate her.

Mine and Ginny's relationship
has definitely blossomed

over the last year, yeah.

(crowd cheering)

It's a one in a million friendship.

Could absolutely throw
her off this balcony

every single day, but I don't,

and that is strength.

- Woo! And she's gone, bye.

Tonight we are voting for
long distance relationships.

- Other than that, I'm
there to hold their bags.

- And what I bet you,
what's the name again?

- Sister Sister,

I'm the one that carries
your bags for you.

- I should remember her name.

- I'm her sister.

We're not friends. She pays me.

- Here we are.

This is what true art looks like,

the m*rder of mankind on stage.

- [Announcer] Make some
noise for Sister Sister!

(audience cheering)

- Woo!

Sister!

(audience cheering)

- [Sister Sister] I think
my performance on this tour,

I really like the element of surprise,

the idea of the reveal so
the acts just get bigger

as this woman's craziness
gets more intense.

I've really tried to marry the
comedy and the humor as well

which I think some cities get,

some cities are very
like, 'huh she's crazy.'

I love it.

It's fun.

It's campy.

It's femme fatale and yeah,
the audience gobble it up.

The music or the track
sort of plays a huge part

in coming up with a
Sister Sister performance.

I love old songs.

I will never be one of
these ra-ta-ta-ta-ta

as much as I f*cking wanna be.

But, you know, I like what I like.

There was one venue when it came on

and everyone was singing and I was like,

oh it's a f*cking sing along as well.

You add that layer on to me
just like k*lling people.

It's like the audience
are egging me on to do it.

(audience cheering)

It's funny when you know when it's working

cause it just clicks and you go,

'Oh that's it, that's the one.'

Being out on that stage
while all that's happening,

and it's all coming together,

just ticks every single box.

It feels amazing.

I think my performance is quite open

to interpretation as well.

I don't think the
performance is that literal

cause I was even going through
it with the choreographer

and he was like, is there an ending?

Do you k*ll yourself?

Is there a bigger ax?

How do you leave the stage?

And I was like, I walk off,

I leave them all behind
and I just walk off.

So yeah, I don't know,

read into that as you will.

What a buzz.

I just really get off on k*lling.

I don't feel like a star, yet.

I'm still waiting for it.

I don't know whether that's
just my personality type.

But after speaking to everyone else

they've got this sense of..

it's just like an
inherent, real, self-belief

in what they do.

It's amazing to watch
cause they just sparkle.

I don't think I've got it yet.

I still feel like a bit of a normal bloke,

but there's a couple of
times during a show night

that I actually feel like it.

And it's the second those curtains open

and you kind of walk out

and you see these
massive, massive theaters

and literal thousands of
people there just watching.

That's a huge reward.

- [Announcer] Make some
noise for Sister Sister!

(audience cheering)

- I would like to continue
doing Sister Sister,

kind of like the visually beautiful,

mixed with a bit of comedy style shows.

I've been through the thick of it

with stuff and there's only one
sort of path left to explore

and that's actually enjoy it.

And not get bogged down
by things like algorithms

and likes and followers
and stuff like that.

If you're making money off it

and you're also enjoying yourself,

you've won.

(upbeat music and crowd cheering)

(upbeat electronic outro music)