‘Drag Race UK’ Q&A: Pixie Well mannered talks not being a comedy queen and fan response

Pixie Well mannered ought to have slayed the “Drag Race UK” roast problem. In line with the RuPaul, the judges and fellow queens. However not essentially in line with Pixie herself.

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“I do not think about myself a comedy queen,” she says throughout a Thursday Zoom name, the identical day her elimination episode aired. “Ru and the judges appear to, and there was quite a lot of expectation and strain on my shoulder. Additionally from the opposite ladies, I feel they anticipated me to do nicely after I might received the studying problem. However stand-up comedy isn’t one thing I’ve accomplished. I feel my jokes had been stable, however I do not suppose I’ve the stand-up comedian timing.”

Pixie’s roast went sideways, touchdown her within the backside with lip sync murderer Black Peppa, who as soon as once more slayed the stage. And although Pixie narrowly missed making the finals, there is no time to decelerate. Her single and video “Give It To Ya” simply dropped, a  “humorous, infectious bubblegum pop tune.” She’s additionally hopping on a Christmas tour, adopted by subsequent yr’s Drag Race UK” tour. 

Pixie spoke about her time on the present, coping with fan negativity and her shock drag beginnings.

Throughout your exit, you stated we might see “a really totally different Pixie” transferring ahead. Has that occurred but?

I really feel prefer it’s a course of. I feel being on the present and doing so nicely and proving to myself I can do it was a really validating expertise when it comes to my confidence, each in myself personally and in my drag and what I do. Watching it again the final 9 weeks has additionally been, in a approach, barely transformative since you see it from a special angle. It’s totally attention-grabbing to see your self mirrored within the mirror of actuality tv. I feel the largest factor that plagued me all season was not believing in myself, and I really feel like if I might do it, I might push issues a bit additional. There is no cause why I could not be in that high 4. It is simply given me a brand new sense of simply, you already know, being that bitch. Star energy, I suppose.

What stunned you most about your self?

Possibly not about myself however simply typically was perhaps the fan response I used to be stunned at. I did not suppose I might be the preferred on the season, however I’ve had considerably lukewarm to destructive response from some individuals. That is not one thing I used to be anticipating. I attempt to type of reclaim the negativity into one thing optimistic, to be trustworthy. I attempt to combine Pixie Not-So-Well mannered into my branding, you see. If individuals suppose I am a bit shady or a bit impolite, then let’s take that destructive and make some cash off it. Ru taught me nicely, you see. In the event that they ain’t paying your payments, monetize it.

Coming into the present, how did you see your self when it comes to branding?

I feel I noticed myself simply as I got here throughout, actually, which was simply somebody who was an enormous, camp, previous cow who owned their curves and cracked a couple of quips and was a seasoned, performing skilled. To be trustworthy, my fundamental bread and butter for drag is singing. That is what I do. I knew I might do some little bit of all the things else to an OK normal, and I hoped that may get me by. And it did. I did fairly rattling nicely.

You had an onstage slip in the course of the lip sync. I feel I might keep flat and by no means get again up, so I am at all times impressed when somebody will get again up.

I am a consummate skilled, as they are saying, so for me, it was like, the present should go on. I do not suppose I even missed a second after my arms hit the ground the place I did not flip round and attempt to proceed performing. It was simply, “Let’s hold going.” I used to be happy with my efficiency. I assumed I did fairly good.

What was the second when drag clicked for you?

I had at all times been interested by singing. I used to be in a band after I was an adolescent. I like music, I like drama, I like doing performs and musicals. I studied drama at uni, type of probably not understanding the place I might find yourself, simply understanding that I cherished performing and playing around. I form of discovered drag accidentally. I used to be in a musical with Tia Kofi, that is how we met. The proprietor of this venue the place we had been doing this musical at requested us, “Do you wish to enter a drag competitors?” I had by no means seen a drag queen in individual. We did not actually understand what it was on the time, however we had a very good time, and it was a nationwide competitors. We ended up coming in second within the nationwide finals. It was only a little bit of a whirlwind romance introduction to pull. I can sing, and I can inform jokes, and I can do all this stuff that I like and receives a commission for it — while additionally wanting completely attractive.

Did Tia supply any recommendation earlier than you entered the Werk Room?

We’re probably not supposed to inform anybody after we’re solid. However she did give me quite a lot of recommendation and nuggets of knowledge from her expertise on the present. I am very lucky to have had many mates and members of my drag household undergo the present: Tia and Victoria Scone and Sum Ting Wong and others. There’s numerous recommendation and knowledge that they’ve given me through the years. I positively felt very ready and prepared.