“Hold on a second, this is actually Bob the Drag Queen calling me,” Steve Warren says as he interrupts our discussion to take the quick call. We all feel a level of having fallen down a rabbit hole…
We all feel a level of having fallen down a rabbit hole these days, but this is about the last thing I would expect to hear from one of the most prominent attorneys in Hollywood — a lawyer whose clients include Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Charlize Theron, Stephen Gaghan,’ Millie Bobby Brown, Akiva Goldsman, Elle & Dakota Fanning and dozens of other top actors and filmmakers.
The flamboyant glam queens are visually striking, like they emerged from an old John Waters movie, but the whole camp thing is a red herring. Because the show is all heart, and tolerance. The trio enlists locals to be part of the show. People who’ve been traumatized by trying to accept who they are, others hoping for a second chance after having rejected their own children, siblings and loved ones for admitting they are LGBTQ.
Bloys put Warren together with HBO’s head of unscripted Nina Rosenstein, and they quickly made a pilot deal. Production designer Marla Weinhoff, who has worked extensively with Lady Gaga, gave the show its distinctive colorful design and found someone to design the cars driven into rural towns by the Queens. Warren and Ingram knew exactly who they wanted as their stars.
Warren’s star clients certainly would have been part of the series launch parties at SXSW and especially in Los Angeles, before all those premieres were canceled because of the pandemic. HBO has been behind the show, which managed to shoot six of its seven-ep order before production shut in Twin Falls, ID. He is optimistic the show will be picked up for a second season, based on the feedback he’s getting from the network, the show’s modest cost and award potential.
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