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To celebrate BenDeLaCreme's return to the UK this week with 'The Jinkx And DeLa Holiday Show', PopBuzz asked the drag superstar to take a trip down memory lane to answer our 'My Life In 20' questions.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It’s all the things I love: it’s wacky, it’s got cartoon comedy, film noir, and then there’s of course, Jessica Rabbit--the ultimate vixen.
The cultural importance of Pee-wee Herman or how reality TV is the downfall of critical thought.
Well at 18, I was living in Boston and saw some of the most influential drag of my life! That’s where I first saw Varla Jean Merman perform, Charles Busch’s Psycho Beach Party in a movie theatre, and The Gold Dust Orphans perform “The Bad Seed.” All three of these became my aesthetic embodied.
Elijah Wood. I felt like I grew up with him. He was adorable and seemed just so relatable and approachable. But also smoking hot. I love how he basically always acts nervous because that’s how I’d feel around him.
I have no idea. There was nothing special about my 16th birthday at all, that whole part of my adolescence was just about waiting for adulthood.
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Spicy food. That might sound boring, but I’ve been pretty stubborn about my opinions from the get-go…hah!
So there was this show on Adult Swim called Space Ghost Coast to Coast and I was obsessed. It was a late night talk show hosted by an animated superhero character but he would interview real people. It was the weirdest thing in the world. One episode, he interviewed the cast of Gilligan’s Island and to this day it’s still one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen.
I’m superstitious about everything, including ladders. I mean just generally speaking, walking under a ladder feels like an insane thing to do. Like sure, I think it’s bad luck, but also--it just seems unsafe?!
Danny DeVito. He’s so accomplished but also just seems so nice and humble. I wanna see what that’s all about.
Matthew Palmer. We would get the family camcorder and make home videos lip syncing to Weird Al songs. Informative.
I think I’m on a great path toward this…but for me it’s moving away from obsessing over what people think of me, and becoming more focused on what I think of me.
I was super afraid of the dark for a really long time.
An actor who illustrated children's books “on the side.” That’s what I would say to everyone, in those exact words.
Pride…and it manifests itself by me being super duper gay.
Well, Danny DeVito for one…and at that point we’d have a lot to talk about because I’d have lived his life for 12 hours. Also, Pee-wee Herman, Elvira, John Waters, Eartha Kitt and…hmmm…Pepa of Salt-N-Pepa!
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Coffee, Post-It notes, Dr. Martens, hairspray, and drag.
Deserving of more words.
'Les Fleur' by Minnie Ripperton, 'Sentimental Journey' by Juan García Esquivel, and 'Electric Relaxation' by A Tribe Called Quest.
Go to Thailand and skydive.
Danny DeVito.
The Jinkx & DeLa's Holiday Show's UK tour kicks off this Sunday in Glasgow, for tickets to all shows head to to jinkxanddela.com.
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