Whereas “To Wong Foo, Thanks for All the things! Julie Newmar” is a bona fide cult basic, it is maybe comprehensible that Patrick Swayze and John Leguizamo’s on-set chemistry wasn’t precisely excellent. Each Swayze and Wesley Snipes entered the film as established main males, and whereas Leguizamo had a decade of roles beneath his belt, his profile wasn’t fairly as excessive. As such, Swayze and Leguizamo primarily had the identical dynamic as their characters, established drag queen star Vida and younger “drag princess” Chi-Chi — however whereas Chi-Chi could be very a lot a protégé who yearns to study from the extra skilled drag queens, Leguizamo’s concepts about performing clashed with the way in which Swayze most popular to work.
Regardless of their on-set variations, Swayze and Leguizamo delivered superb performances. Actually, they had been each nominated for a Golden Globe for his or her roles within the 1995 film. Trying again, Leguizamo says that his improvisation was a vital a part of elevating Chi-Chi to that stage. “I rewrote that position. I expanded that position, ‘trigger that position was nothing,” Leguizamo stated within the “Radio Andy” interview. “Douglas Carter Beane could disagree as a result of he wrote the script, however he is aware of what I dropped at it.”