and got a similar response, albeit with some slight progress.
We should do a reality competition show.
Thats how the audience found out who was safe or not safe, Campbell recalls.
From that outrageous idea,Drag Races lip-sync for your life was born.
Thats how weird and unsuccessful things lead to amazing things, Campbell continues.
And we gasped and said, They dont just lip-sync.
They lip-sync for theirlives.
And it was just crazy from there.
Gentlemen, start your engines and all those other great ideas just came flowing out.
Barbato says the control room was a closet and the Untucked room was a hallway.
Campbell recalls queens having to walk through the writers room to get to the set.
We did stuff across the street from where we were shooting.
We really tried to utilize everything that was at our fingertips to make this show work.
Thats becauseDrag Race, though starting small, was fairly set in its DNA from the get-go.
Season 1s challenges were mostly borne from obstacles that RuPaul himself had to conquer early in his drag career.
The first season was really, Ru did it, and now you have to, says Campbell.
Like, the drag-on-a-dime challenge.
The laugh is as important to RuPauls persona as his early days on the club circuit.
Its his signature calling card, explains Bailey.
Its the most incredible laugh, and its one of the first things I remember about him.
This laugh that you could hear across a club with bumping disco music.
You would hear that Ru laugh and you would know, fun is nearby.
Hes such a nerd and I think sometimes you get glimpses of that part.
