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Hollywood Is "Finally Catching On" to the Booming Drag Queen Economy

Movi Inc for World of Wonder #Rupaul #RuPaulsDragRace #AJandtheQueen #DragQueen #DragCon   The massive success of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' has launched dozens of stars and ignited red-carpet appearance deals for films like 'Frozen 2.' Still, for a queen, "your money is on the road." As Angelina Jolie made the usual red carpet rounds at the L.A. premiere of Disney's  Maleficent: Mistress of Evil , she stopped for a picture with stars who didn't appear in the film, even if they looked like they had: drag queens Nina West, Shangela and Ginger Minj, decked out in horns, black dresses and, in Minj's case, an ensemble dedicated to the film's fairies. In recent months, queens were invited to the  Frozen 2  premiere and the  Charlie's Angels  debut, posing with Kristen Stewart, Idina Menzel and Josh Gad. (Reps declined to say how much the queens were paid to appear.) Studios like Disney are the latest entrant to the new drag quee...

RuPaul brings 22 Drag Race queens to costar on AJ and the Queen

#Rupaul #RuPaulsDragRace #AJandtheQueen #Netflix By  Joey Nolfi   December 03, 2019 at 01:00 PM EST RuPaul  kept it in the family — the  RuPaul’s Drag Race  sisterhood, to be exact — when building the supporting cast for his  new Netflix series  AJ and the Queen .  Bianca Del Rio, Latrice Royale, Trinity The Tuck, Miss Vanjie, and more will have supporting roles on Netflix's upcoming dramedy series. EW can exclusively reveal that the Emmy-winning drag superstar will appear alongside 22 queens from past seasons of  Drag Race , each of whom play a small role in a  tale about a down-on-her-luck performer, Ruby Red (RuPaul) , who’s swindled out of her life savings one day before hitting the road for a cross-country tour with a 10-year-old stowaway (newcomer Izzy G.) aboard her vintage RV. Drag Race  alums co-starring across the series’ 10-episode first season include  Valentina  (season 9,  All-Stars...