Can you c’mon walk me through the origins of this gag and how you devised it?
It wasn’t sinister, but Monet noticed it like, “What are you smiling about?
What’s that look for?”
Shea Couleé on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 7’.Paramount+/World of Wonder
and I read the room like, oh, these bitches are scared about something!
[Laughs]
Were you telling other queens to do it, or they just picked up on it?
Oh, they picked up on it.
Shea Couleé for EW.Vijat M for EW
Did you explicitly tell anyone it was a joke?
[Laughs]
The glee in your voice…
Here’s the thing: I’m a prankster, and that’s never really shown.
I think that’s what the challenge was.
So, you have to step back and look at yourself in an objective way.
Like, am I not surprising them enough?
Have they just seen what they feel like they will see from Shea?
This was my third time, and I was just there basically the summer before.
Baby, no, I ain’t asking nobody for their star; I’m earning mine.
Do you know if anyone else did?
Yes, it was all in jest.
Not a bobby pin for a Legendary Legend Star!
Well, not all of us can have a rhinestone tank top on us.
Yes, but I haven’t watched the episode yet… Let’s just let people draw conclusions.
I’m pleading the fifth on this one.
I truly don’t know.
That’s not me being tight-lipped, I truly don’t know.
After Monet and Trinity asked you to jointheiralliance, did you tell anyone or keep it to yourself?
I kept it to myself.
Yeah, I’m not trying to reveal anybody else’s plans.
That’s their thing, that’s what they wanted to do.
The Vivienne asked if someone would hand her the xylophone.
We shouldn’t read into that?
No, go right on ahead.
Damnit, I shouldn’t have told the truth!
Let’s go to the challenge.
It started with Viv getting annoyed over how the groups divided up.
Why were you and Raja so determined to have only those members in your group from the start?
We just kind of looked [at our lineup] and it seemed cute to us.
So, we were just like, yeah, let’s just do this.
She didn’t like that.
We don’t usually see The Vivienne that annoyed, what was going on with her that day?
I don’t know, we were a little bit shook.
Maybe she was hungry for another star, so that competitive edge came through.
We were a little bit shocked, too.
That didn’t last long?
Absolutely, I feel like she was in that headspace for 20 minutes, and then she was fine.
For me, it was a mix between Kelly Rowland and Chilli from TLC.
I wish she’d bring it back.
I’ll tweet her… She’s going to bring it back for [Beyonce’s]Renaissanceera.
It will be the renaissance of Kelly’s two-toned hair.
When you saw Raja in rehearsals, was there a part of you that died inside?
No one is hopeless.
I can get you to do this.
There was a lot of off-camera rehearsal where I was so tightly drilling those girls.
I get into that dance teacher, and Raja was in it, too.
She was committed because Raja wanted to look really f—ing good.
Who would you have blocked this week if you’d won?
I honestly don’t know.
Who has the most stars?
Before Yvie won her second, it was Jinkx and Jaida.
Who did The Vivienne block?
Yeah, I would’ve blocked Jinkx too, my sister!
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