Drag Race star Priyanka teases ‘scary’ and ‘vital’ We’re Right here season 4. (Nick Merzetti)
Season 4 of We’re Right here is an important but, forged member and Canada’s Drag Race winner Priyanka tells PinkNews as the brand new trailer for HBO’s actuality present arrives.
The trailer for We’re Right here season 4 dropped yesterday (9 April), and options Drag Race winners Priyanka, Sasha Velour, and Jaida Essence Corridor, plus fan favorite Latrice Royale, as they head to the southern US states of Tennessee and Oklahoma.
We’re Right here follows the drag stars as they search to grasp what life is like for LGBTQ+ individuals in cities the place anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment is rife, and try and placed on a drag present to carry the cities’ small queer communities collectively.
Within the trailer, the group face the specter of arrest for performing in drag, as Tennessee and Oklahoma legislators tried to usher in drag bans within the states final 12 months.
It additionally encompasses a younger lady calling the queer group an “LGBTQ faith”, and a drag queen politician who has had their home shot at after they tried to run for workplace.
As anti-LGBTQ+ laws continues being proposed within the US – there are at present virtually 500 such payments in states throughout the nation – the return of We’re Right here couldn’t be any extra pertinent.
Talking solely to PinkNews, Priyanka defined that early on in the course of the filming course of, she and Sasha Velour had been hounded by “a truck stuffed with white males” who “screamed” at them.
“They screamed at first after which they [said] ‘F****t’. Then Sasha and I… we checked out one another and had been like, ‘Did they simply say f****t?’. I bear in mind feeling like that is very scary,” Priyanka mentioned.
“Usually, once we’re capturing the present, the cameras are round. The digicam was there, the crew was there, and so they had been nonetheless [shouting] ‘F*****s. It was and is horrifying,” she added, explaining that the pair weren’t even in drag when the incident occurred.
“It was scary, however I used to be like, if getting up in drag and parading round is gonna encourage anyone, it must be value it.”
The 32-year-old drag performer and “No New Associates” hitmaker additionally defined that showing on the present opened her eyes to how “actual” anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment is throughout America.
Within the trailer, the aforementioned younger lady and her father slam queer individuals as being a part of a “cult”, as Priyanka and Sasha try and have a dialog with them. By that time, Jaida Essence Corridor had needed to “stroll away” from the state of affairs.
“I’m sitting there like, ‘Whoa that is actual, this isn’t a remark, that is on TikTok, this isn’t on Twitter. Like, that is f***ing actual. We had a dialog with these individuals and it didn’t go effectively,” she defined.
“I preserve saying in the course of the present that it’s one factor for me to return and parade there in drag and it’s one other factor for another person to reside there and go to the grocery retailer and the espresso retailers each single day,” she added.
“We lived there for a month, so we bought somewhat piece of it, however not as dangerous as what an individual who really lives in Tennessee or Oklahoma has to undergo.”
Whereas Priyanka described We’re Right here season 4 as a “trauma, cry present”, Drag Race followers will even get to see their favorite queens in an entire new mild.
“You’re gonna see one other facet of Sasha that you just’ve by no means seen earlier than,” Priyanka teased.
“I used to be watching a number of the episodes and I used to be like ‘OK, Sasha, you’re giving comedy!’ And Jaida is so cute and so emotional, actually. I believe she cries like 4 occasions each episode. Latrice is rather like large momma, she’ll take everybody down.”
“I’m excited so that you can see it,” she mentioned. “It’s crucial and never solely is it altering the world, however it’s going to affect all 4 of our lives.”
We’re Right here season 4 lands on HBO on 26 April.