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[street noise]

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...I think she's giving us
drag superstar realness.

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I think she's an "It Girl."

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- RUPAUL: When I see BeBe,
I don't see a man in a wig.

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I see a graceful,
beautiful creature.

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- There's not a whole lot
of negative

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I have to say about BeBe...

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- And do we think that
BeBe delivers?

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Has she brought it
to the mainstage?

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[♪ "Banjo"
by BeBe Zahara Benet ♪]

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[♪ "Dirty Drums"
by BeBe Zahara Benet ♪]

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Come on!

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BeBe, you got 15 minutes.

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I was like, ok.

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Well, this is it.

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The grand finale of
RuPaul's Drag Race.

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Tonight, we will crown
America's Next Drag Superstar.

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Look at this cute little crowd.

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Let me hear it!

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[cheering]

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Who loves drag?

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The gorgeous BeBe Zahara Benet!

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Cameroon! [cheering]

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The game is so on.

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It's going to be
a battle right now.

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- This is it girls.

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I've made my decision.

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The winner -

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The Next Drag Superstar...

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is BeBe.

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[big cheers]

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BeBe this is your moment.

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I pass the reins
on to you my dear.

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Congratulations lady,
well deserved.

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Clap for your queen,
clap for your queen!

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- Cameroon!
- Can we get a big Cameroon?

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[cheering] CAMEROON!

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BeBe Zahara Benet is
with us, and you know,

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she won the first RuPaul's
Drag Race, Season One.

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BeBe, welcome to our show.

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- Hello, how are you?

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- Good! I've wanted to
meet you for ages now.

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But I want people to be
reacquainted with your story.

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You were born in Cameroon
and got into drag,

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kind of in an accidental
kind of way - remind us -

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- Um, I don't know
if it's accidental.

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I think I was meant to...

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Well, I was, you know, I,

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I grew up, doing
a little bit of modeling,

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male modeling, and I was
doing like a fashion show,

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with one African designer.

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And, some of the female models
did not show up.

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There was a shortage of them.
And, you know, I said,

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"Put me in a dress," you know,

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put me in the look
and I can do it.

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And it's when
I moved to Minnesota,

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that I really got
the opportunity

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of really exploring
the art form of drag

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and really knowing
what it's all about.

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And, you know, years later,

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here's where I am.

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[laughs]

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-I think we're good to go!

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-Alright, well let's do this...

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well, ok so - I think we can -

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- Can we make sure that
when I take it off my f-

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I'm not like -

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like my T-zones,
how is my T-zone?

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Cuz we really need
this face to look young.

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We're going for
the youthfulness, ok?

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- It looks great.

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- When we, uh, rung in 2020,
I was like, "Oh,

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this is the breakthrough year."

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Like, this is the year that is
gonna do it for me.

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- This is so much more
than a makeover.

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- There was all these
amazing things

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that were happening this year.

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I mean, my calendar
was like so booked.

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And then all of a sudden
it just went

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crickets, crickets,
crickets, crickets,

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crickets, crickets,
crickets, crickets,

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and still more
crickets happening

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like crickets, crickets.

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So right now I am unemployed.
How about that?

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Why don't we, um,
go back in time

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and start looking at
some of the clips

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from the film and
just dive right in?

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Go ahead and hit play.

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- Play.

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Oh my sisters!

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- He just brings
a difference to the world.

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- A spice, he spices things up.
- He spices it.

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So I guess, you know,

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he was just
God's gift to the world.

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- God's gift to us first!

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And then, after us,
then the world.

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- Yeah.

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[muffled exchange & laugh]

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- Mm-hmm.

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The legends have gone
through this space, you know?

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This was like really a
chapter in my life.

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This is my baby sister Dimitra.

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- Ladies and gentlemen,

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please welcome to the stage
for the first time tonight

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doing a production number,

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Miss BeBe Benet.

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Give it up for BeBe!

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That used to be
a parking lot over there.

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And that's where actually -

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the first time I got into
full drag and I performed

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with Cyndi Lauper,
"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,"

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for like the Pride Block Party.

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And then from there I started
doing amateur nights here.

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- Why?

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...another lovely,
lovely entertainer...

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- Ahhh!

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- She's got an air about her,
it's not a snotty air, but I -

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she just - she has - onstage,
she's just very comfortable.

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And you can see
that she's comfortable.

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And you know,
even when she's offstage,

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she's kind of onstage.

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- Ugh!

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- She's very extravagant.
She's very dramatic, and -

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Stand up.

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She has a lot of culture
behind her

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because she does come from,

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you know, she has African roots.

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So she's got that
sophistication about her,

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that a lot of the performers
don't have.

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[cheering]

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- I always want to be the best.

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Not only for people,
but for myself,

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I want to be the best.

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[cheering]

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I think here in Minneapolis,
it's so restricting.

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I feel like there's really
no room for growth.

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Like the 90's is the furthest
you can go.

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Time waits for no one.

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It just flies by. You know,

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before you know it,
it's already 2007.

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You know? And then
you kind of ask yourself,

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what have I done all this time?

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How old are you?

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How old do you think I am? 24?

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24.

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Oh my God.

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Wow.

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That's years.

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Em, that is years!

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Isn't it so interesting, like,

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how beautiful I looked
back then,

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and then now,

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even like way more beautiful?

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No I'm just kid -

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[big laugh]

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- Yes.

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- When I started drag,

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the first thing that
came to mind is

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how am I going to
make money?

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How am I going to live?
Is this going to be the job?

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When we immigrants
come to this country,

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it's very different from like,

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"Oh, we're just going
to be the stars..."

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It's no, it's like, how are we
going to better ourselves,

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so that we can take care of
everything that

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we need to take care of, which
is ourselves and our family.

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You know, my parents, they are
very motivated individuals.

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This is nice. Very cute.

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- Good evening,
ladies and gentlemen.

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May I bring you
greetings from Cameroon.

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Actually,
coming to the U.S. is

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something like
a homecoming for me,

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because I did all of my

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undergraduate and graduate
studies in the U.S.,

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then I went back home
where I am teaching.

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Somebody met me in Cameroon
and apparently she liked

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what she saw.

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Elizabeth, would you stand.

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[applause]

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My family would tell you,
I did so well in school.

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Always the A's, or the B+,

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like I was always in the top.

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But I just knew
that it was not for me.

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And I think that
there was a part of them

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that saw that coming.

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Like, "This Marshall,
this very Marshall -

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I don't know!"
You know what I mean?

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"This very Marshall -
I don't know..."

00:14:05.734 --> 00:14:08.327
- Definitely.

00:14:09.220 --> 00:14:10.053
- At that point,

00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:12.288
there was a part of me
that wanted to make sure

00:14:12.311 --> 00:14:15.763
that my path
was successful,

00:14:15.927 --> 00:14:19.031
because I didn't
want to hear, "I told you so."

00:14:23.914 --> 00:14:25.990
Nobody tells their son,
"Oh, go do drag."

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There's no drag artists
in Africa

00:14:31.610 --> 00:14:34.867
doing what I am doing
or doing what I want to do.

00:14:35.429 --> 00:14:36.329
Because I mean,

00:14:36.376 --> 00:14:38.470
you get the typical
traditional men who are like,

00:14:38.830 --> 00:14:42.910
"Oh, is he uh, did he
lose his masculinity?"

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Cause I get up and I dress up,
makes me less of a man?

00:14:51.070 --> 00:14:51.903
Who says?

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If you wanted to really
take your career

00:15:30.592 --> 00:15:32.835
to that level of notoriety

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and really make a name
for yourself,

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you go into the pageants.

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People get to know who you are.

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And from there, other
opportunities come through.

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- Down the nose. Yes.

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- Just funky.

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- I'm sorry.

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- It's a contest.

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[dancers jumping
and chanting]

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This is Contestant Number Two,

00:16:04.855 --> 00:16:07.113
representing Minnesota, USofA -

00:16:07.113 --> 00:16:08.965
this is BeBe Benet.

00:16:08.965 --> 00:16:10.528
Make some noise for BeBe Benet!

00:16:10.612 --> 00:16:12.258
[cheering]

00:16:22.967 --> 00:16:28.583
[♪ cheering & driving,
upbeat music ♪]

00:17:10.795 --> 00:17:12.964
[♪ She is fierce! ♪♪]

00:17:14.041 --> 00:17:18.841
[big applause and cheering]

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Good job guys!

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- Top Twelve! Top Twelve!

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So I'm actually building
my portfolio right now,

00:18:01.660 --> 00:18:03.772
trying to show people
how versatile I am,

00:18:03.772 --> 00:18:05.620
and the different looks
I can give,

00:18:05.621 --> 00:18:10.540
and how passable I can
pull off those looks.

00:18:11.190 --> 00:18:13.260
I want to use that
to send it to places

00:18:13.260 --> 00:18:14.710
so that I can start
booking myself,

00:18:15.220 --> 00:18:16.210
you know,
in different places.

00:18:16.660 --> 00:18:19.122
- We can never just
document a dress. No.

00:18:19.146 --> 00:18:21.988
it becomes, well what's the set
and what's the backdrop?

00:18:22.045 --> 00:18:23.020
They always get bigger.

00:18:23.770 --> 00:18:26.800
This entire book
is nothing but BeBe.

00:18:29.890 --> 00:18:32.290
That's wild. That's really wild.

00:18:35.837 --> 00:18:37.385
Do you have more questions?

00:18:37.409 --> 00:18:39.267
- I feel like I probably do...

00:18:39.321 --> 00:18:41.410
There's one I think you might
get mad at me if I ask.

00:18:41.800 --> 00:18:42.525
- What?

00:18:43.120 --> 00:18:44.345
- Are you a gay man?

00:18:46.124 --> 00:18:49.120
- Am I a gay man.
Why do you ask that?

00:18:49.660 --> 00:18:50.540
- Because I've never -

00:18:50.540 --> 00:18:52.885
I've just realized that
I've never asked you that.

00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:56.443
- I don't place myself into
any category right now.

00:18:57.304 --> 00:18:59.322
If that makes sense.
Sexually.

00:19:00.711 --> 00:19:02.385
When I came here,

00:19:02.385 --> 00:19:05.470
people just assumed that if you
dress up as a girl, you're gay.

00:19:05.950 --> 00:19:09.550
And that's,
that's an issue with me.

00:19:09.850 --> 00:19:12.678
- Do you think your parents or
your family would have a problem

00:19:12.678 --> 00:19:14.932
if you were having
a relationship with a man?

00:19:16.060 --> 00:19:16.893
- Yes.

00:19:17.815 --> 00:19:18.654
- Really?

00:19:18.795 --> 00:19:20.477
- Yeah, definitely. Um,

00:19:36.202 --> 00:19:37.309
- That serious?

00:19:56.277 --> 00:19:59.901
[somber music]

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When it comes to sexuality,

00:20:28.575 --> 00:20:30.780
I feel like
the world has evolved.

00:20:32.370 --> 00:20:34.893
But when it comes to Cameroon

00:20:34.893 --> 00:20:36.510
and just a lot of
African countries,

00:20:36.511 --> 00:20:37.833
I don't feel like
that has changed.

00:20:39.540 --> 00:20:42.660
Cameroon is also going through
a lot of political issues.

00:20:42.810 --> 00:20:43.954
So you feel like

00:20:43.954 --> 00:20:46.528
they're going to try to
face sexuality right now

00:20:46.528 --> 00:20:48.077
when they have all these
other things

00:20:48.137 --> 00:20:50.480
that they're trying to
deal with? Absolutely not.

00:20:50.510 --> 00:20:53.840
That's not happening.
So we still have ways to go.

00:21:29.479 --> 00:21:31.249
[sigh]

00:22:11.851 --> 00:22:14.369
[muffled conversation]

00:22:47.470 --> 00:22:49.076
- It's interesting
to see how far

00:22:49.076 --> 00:22:50.471
you were even able
to get people

00:22:50.471 --> 00:22:51.850
to have conversations
about it.

00:22:51.970 --> 00:22:55.180
Because a lot of times there
wouldn't even be a conversation.

00:22:56.080 --> 00:22:57.783
You don't even
talk about it.

00:22:57.783 --> 00:22:59.770
Like before I even
came to America,

00:22:59.771 --> 00:23:02.440
when I was growing up,
I mean, you,

00:23:04.060 --> 00:23:06.120
I didn't even know
what that was.

00:23:06.120 --> 00:23:08.770
I honestly did not
even know what gay was.

00:23:09.130 --> 00:23:09.903
You know?

00:23:09.949 --> 00:23:11.050
And when I was growing up,

00:23:11.051 --> 00:23:14.176
I was not the most masculine guy
that was walking around.

00:23:14.211 --> 00:23:15.282
I knew that.

00:23:15.760 --> 00:23:17.827
You see, I was already
fashionable there.

00:23:17.827 --> 00:23:19.895
Then this is me
in the choir.

00:23:20.740 --> 00:23:22.642
That's me, singing.

00:23:22.642 --> 00:23:25.180
That's me still singing.

00:23:25.840 --> 00:23:28.390
Yes, I got called names.
Yes, I got bullied.

00:23:28.690 --> 00:23:31.708
But I always found a way
to be the star.

00:23:31.708 --> 00:23:33.520
Because I felt as a child,

00:23:33.660 --> 00:23:36.428
that being the star
protects you.

00:23:36.499 --> 00:23:38.200
"Oh, Marshall? Marshall?

00:23:38.350 --> 00:23:39.820
The one who does this?"

00:23:39.820 --> 00:23:41.290
Like everybody
knew about Marshall...

00:23:41.530 --> 00:23:45.160
This can come across
as very like, grand -

00:23:45.370 --> 00:23:49.200
but I always knew how to make
people be subjects to me.

00:23:49.590 --> 00:23:51.690
And I say that
with the most love.

00:23:52.500 --> 00:23:53.487
The girls loved Marshall

00:23:53.487 --> 00:23:55.369
and I made sure that
the girls were my army.

00:23:55.404 --> 00:23:56.874
Don't play with me.

00:23:57.210 --> 00:23:59.128
And then this is me doing
Food & Nutrition.

00:23:59.152 --> 00:24:00.796
I was the only boy.

00:24:02.190 --> 00:24:04.367
I knew that there was
something about me

00:24:04.367 --> 00:24:06.000
that was not like
everybody else.

00:24:06.060 --> 00:24:07.800
And so what would I do?

00:24:07.801 --> 00:24:10.946
Would I be that person that
would walk in the room

00:24:10.946 --> 00:24:12.375
and hide in the corner?

00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:15.570
Or would I be the person that
will get everybody together?

00:24:20.510 --> 00:24:23.769
- I know this guy.
I remember the frame too.

00:24:23.793 --> 00:24:24.455
- Mm-hmm.

00:24:24.466 --> 00:24:26.458
You remember you got this
for my birthday?

00:24:26.510 --> 00:24:29.900
- Sure did. Sure did.

00:24:30.313 --> 00:24:32.783
- The first time I decided that
I was going to develop BeBe

00:24:32.830 --> 00:24:34.914
and actually put BeBe
out on stage,

00:24:34.969 --> 00:24:36.000
the first person,

00:24:36.013 --> 00:24:38.540
the very, very first person
I talked to was Azah Tabah.

00:24:39.770 --> 00:24:40.603
Mami -

00:24:42.844 --> 00:24:44.085
- I was looking good.

00:24:50.660 --> 00:24:52.131
- No Mami,
don't open my oil -

00:24:56.450 --> 00:24:57.283
For real though.

00:25:01.062 --> 00:25:02.304
- This will be dramatic
on you girl -

00:25:57.170 --> 00:25:57.772
Let's do that.

00:26:11.581 --> 00:26:13.667
- Oh good! You needed
a little pick-me-up.

00:26:22.075 --> 00:26:24.742
My week has been a living hell.

00:26:35.060 --> 00:26:37.640
Prior to me being in America
and looking at drag,

00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:40.551
everything I had seen was
people laughing at people.

00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:43.182
You know, they're laughing
at the art form,

00:26:43.182 --> 00:26:45.250
or making a mockery
of the art form.

00:26:45.550 --> 00:26:47.020
And so I was like
very suspicious.

00:26:47.020 --> 00:26:48.910
I was like, should I
even be doing this?

00:26:48.911 --> 00:26:51.040
Because it's like, are you
going to put me on television,

00:26:51.041 --> 00:26:52.438
and are you going to
laugh at me?

00:26:52.438 --> 00:26:54.010
You know what I mean?
What is it gonna be?

00:27:08.557 --> 00:27:09.251
I know...

00:27:15.758 --> 00:27:16.747
Exactly.

00:27:22.451 --> 00:27:23.723
That's it.

00:27:25.508 --> 00:27:30.224
I deserve it and I have
absolutely nothing to lose.

00:27:39.167 --> 00:27:42.529
♪ RuPaul's Drag Race
Gentlemen! Start your engines ♪

00:27:42.529 --> 00:27:47.121
♪ RuPaul's Drag Race
May the best woman win ♪

00:27:47.517 --> 00:27:48.717
BeBe, nice to meet you...

00:27:49.320 --> 00:27:51.313
My name is
Nea Marshall Kudi Ngwa,

00:27:51.348 --> 00:27:53.438
and I'm from West Africa,
precisely Cameroon.

00:27:53.849 --> 00:27:55.378
BeBe, nice to meet you.

00:27:55.973 --> 00:27:57.089
RUPAUL: Cameroon!

00:27:57.300 --> 00:27:58.804
- What Drag Race did

00:27:58.804 --> 00:28:02.190
is bring the art form
to the houses of people,

00:28:02.191 --> 00:28:04.890
like people that would
never go to the clubs.

00:28:04.890 --> 00:28:06.089
People were discovering it,

00:28:06.113 --> 00:28:08.175
where you get to
know about us

00:28:08.175 --> 00:28:10.530
not just as artists,
but as human beings.

00:28:10.830 --> 00:28:13.080
I'm just going crazy.
I'm like, wow.

00:28:13.204 --> 00:28:14.660
But do you know
how difficult it is

00:28:14.660 --> 00:28:15.996
to be six foot two
and you have to

00:28:15.996 --> 00:28:17.440
work with two yards
of fabric?

00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:20.400
- Well, life is not fair, BeBe!
I have two words for you.

00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:21.132
- What?

00:28:21.400 --> 00:28:24.003
- Extravaganza, eleganza!

00:28:26.940 --> 00:28:31.000
♪ Face, face, face. I give face,
beauty, face. You can take, ♪

00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:34.162
♪ it's okay,
watch my body go insane. ♪♪

00:28:35.749 --> 00:28:36.877
You're a fierce bitch, man.

00:28:36.877 --> 00:28:38.250
I'm scared of you.

00:28:40.337 --> 00:28:42.857
[cheering]

00:28:55.748 --> 00:28:57.537
RUPAUL: I've made my decision.

00:28:57.537 --> 00:29:00.619
The next drag superstar...

00:29:03.065 --> 00:29:03.896
...is BeBe.

00:29:03.966 --> 00:29:06.382
[BeBe gasps, crowd cheers]

00:29:07.335 --> 00:29:09.452
BeBe this is your moment.

00:29:09.452 --> 00:29:12.064
I pass the reins
on to you my dear.

00:29:13.410 --> 00:29:15.240
- It was just such
a proud moment for me.

00:29:15.690 --> 00:29:19.950
It's like having an A+ in class.

00:29:19.950 --> 00:29:21.174
And then you can take it
to Mom and Dad

00:29:21.197 --> 00:29:22.631
and say, "Guess what?"

00:29:22.642 --> 00:29:24.262
- Cameroon!
- Can we get a big Cameroon?

00:29:24.262 --> 00:29:27.760
- CAMEROON!

00:29:32.068 --> 00:29:33.930
- Happy Gay Pride everybody!

00:29:55.819 --> 00:29:57.604
- Oh my God!

00:29:58.265 --> 00:30:00.117
- I love BeBe!

00:30:00.117 --> 00:30:02.735
I want a nickname
like "Cameroon"!

00:30:03.800 --> 00:30:05.423
- I cannot imagine how much

00:30:05.446 --> 00:30:08.650
of an inspiration people say
I've been to them.

00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:11.609
It's like, Oh my God,
it was just drag.

00:30:11.621 --> 00:30:12.700
You know what I'm saying?

00:30:12.701 --> 00:30:13.859
It's like, how amazing.

00:30:47.084 --> 00:30:48.948
[cheering]

00:30:52.147 --> 00:30:56.431
[triumphant music]

00:31:07.630 --> 00:31:11.710
I won't lie and say it was okay.
It was a process of adapting.

00:31:12.700 --> 00:31:13.846
This is who he is.

00:31:13.893 --> 00:31:15.789
This is what he's
he's comfortable with.

00:31:15.847 --> 00:31:16.850
This is his life.

00:31:18.190 --> 00:31:20.804
I struggled
to understand him

00:31:20.840 --> 00:31:22.300
and the other people
in his world

00:31:23.110 --> 00:31:27.790
who live that life and who
do what they do, you know,

00:31:28.390 --> 00:31:30.940
and to, to learn, to
make room for them too,

00:31:31.030 --> 00:31:34.600
because they too are part of
society, they're a part of us.

00:31:34.601 --> 00:31:39.100
And just like, I struggle
to find room for myself,

00:31:39.130 --> 00:31:40.300
I understand other people too

00:31:40.300 --> 00:31:42.924
struggle to find room
for their own selves.

00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:47.716
I don't even know
if you are useful,

00:31:47.716 --> 00:31:48.790
as you are standing there.

00:31:48.910 --> 00:31:50.171
- What am I supposed
to be doing?

00:31:50.171 --> 00:31:51.580
- Just leave this place and–

00:31:53.650 --> 00:31:54.483
- Just move!

00:31:55.450 --> 00:31:57.580
These portraits of yourself
sure are very heavy...

00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:01.870
- So where're you gonna
be living in New York?

00:32:01.871 --> 00:32:03.338
- Brooklyn.

00:32:03.338 --> 00:32:07.086
- You will be - you'll love it.
It's you. You'll fit right in.

00:32:08.012 --> 00:32:09.640
- This is our workout
for the day.

00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:10.209
- Girl...

00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:13.648
- I think that
if I won the show now,

00:32:13.648 --> 00:32:15.280
it might be a little different,

00:32:15.310 --> 00:32:17.740
because now there's just
such a blueprint.

00:32:18.100 --> 00:32:21.173
The platform comes with
so many opportunities, right?

00:32:21.173 --> 00:32:22.660
So you get to plan.

00:32:22.738 --> 00:32:23.866
You get to do all of this.

00:32:23.866 --> 00:32:24.995
I think back then
it was just like,

00:32:25.780 --> 00:32:28.562
we were just taking it
as it comes.

00:32:28.686 --> 00:32:31.671
It's like, how are you going to
take this to the next level?

00:32:31.741 --> 00:32:33.277
Because you have a platform,

00:32:33.460 --> 00:32:35.770
but you don't necessarily
have been given a career.

00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:38.380
So how are you really
gonna make this a career?

00:32:39.057 --> 00:32:40.434
Ma Ngwa!
Sorry for calling -

00:32:40.434 --> 00:32:42.727
it's so late now, I know
it's late in Cameroon, but.

00:32:43.220 --> 00:32:45.480
We just got done packing now.

00:32:45.481 --> 00:32:48.396
So we'll be getting ready
to hit the road and stuff.

00:32:48.773 --> 00:32:52.201
- Lord we call upon you as
we see our brother, Nea,

00:32:52.201 --> 00:32:53.750
as he travels to New York.

00:32:55.653 --> 00:32:57.710
This is a new beginning for him.

00:32:58.955 --> 00:33:03.359
Lord, know that you are
everything to us and that

00:33:03.597 --> 00:33:07.471
you will fulfill his dreams.
Amen.

00:33:07.535 --> 00:33:08.921
- Amen.

00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:33.803
Ok. This is the front door key,
this is for downstairs.

00:33:38.312 --> 00:33:41.027
Oh my gosh. Emily,
what are you thinking?

00:33:41.027 --> 00:33:41.930
- It's really nice.

00:33:41.930 --> 00:33:42.715
- I love it.

00:33:42.715 --> 00:33:44.330
♪  Can you feel me now? ♪

00:33:44.330 --> 00:33:46.495
♪  When you wake up
in the morning ♪

00:33:46.495 --> 00:33:48.970
♪  and you look in the mirror,
tell her: ♪

00:33:49.631 --> 00:33:51.367
♪ I'm the shit. ♪

00:33:52.623 --> 00:33:56.347
♪ I'm the shit.
I'm the one. ♪

00:33:56.347 --> 00:33:59.559
♪  Get you off.
Turn you on. ♪

00:34:13.313 --> 00:34:14.390
♪  Can you feel me now? ♪

00:34:15.500 --> 00:34:17.930
When I moved to New York,
I was traveling and working.

00:34:17.990 --> 00:34:19.517
I was still getting booked

00:34:19.517 --> 00:34:21.350
in different places
to go and perform.

00:34:21.350 --> 00:34:23.251
Hello everybody!

00:34:24.045 --> 00:34:25.430
They were just bars and clubs.

00:34:25.490 --> 00:34:27.768
You get booked,
you do a meet and greet

00:34:27.768 --> 00:34:29.540
and do two numbers
and you're done.

00:34:29.541 --> 00:34:33.140
You know, the Pride festivals
were really big for me.

00:34:33.890 --> 00:34:36.800
So that's how
I was making money.

00:34:36.830 --> 00:34:38.910
And then also I was
making sure that

00:34:38.910 --> 00:34:40.730
I just didn't just spend,
you know,

00:34:40.731 --> 00:34:42.350
I would put it all back
in my craft.

00:34:46.820 --> 00:34:48.761
I find myself in a city
where it's like,

00:34:48.796 --> 00:34:50.150
I really don't know anybody.

00:34:50.570 --> 00:34:53.030
And I'm now more in music

00:34:53.030 --> 00:34:55.900
as opposed to
lip-syncing at a bar

00:34:55.900 --> 00:35:00.032
because I was actually pursuing
live music and the live side

00:35:00.032 --> 00:35:02.416
of my career.

00:35:02.416 --> 00:35:05.233
- Our plan is to get BeBe
on one of these walls,

00:35:05.233 --> 00:35:05.968
or, a few of them.

00:35:06.268 --> 00:35:07.547
- Yes. All of them.

00:35:08.605 --> 00:35:09.740
- At the end of the day
it comes down to money,

00:35:10.130 --> 00:35:11.960
whether we like it or not.
It's not easy.

00:35:11.961 --> 00:35:13.490
And the struggles
with New York is that

00:35:13.490 --> 00:35:16.191
there are just so many
people here with big talk.

00:35:16.550 --> 00:35:18.350
- Are you willing to do
unpaid shows?

00:35:18.890 --> 00:35:21.500
- I'm willing to do unpaid shows
if it makes sense to do it.

00:35:21.535 --> 00:35:22.942
- No, abso- we're not gonna
have you doing

00:35:22.966 --> 00:35:24.250
unpaid shows just because...

00:35:24.276 --> 00:35:26.541
- Yeah, well, because
some people have asked that...

00:35:26.541 --> 00:35:29.540
I am living in New York and
I'm living from dime to dime.

00:35:29.750 --> 00:35:31.370
I'm investing my money
in music.

00:35:31.370 --> 00:35:32.990
I'm investing my money
in producers.

00:35:33.230 --> 00:35:34.859
I'm investing my money
in singers.

00:35:34.882 --> 00:35:37.520
I'm investing my money
in everything.

00:35:38.770 --> 00:35:41.860
♪ Boys, let me hear it.
Shimmy shimmy sha... ♪

00:35:41.860 --> 00:35:43.266
♪ Shimmy shimmy shu ♪

00:35:43.266 --> 00:35:46.465
♪  Girls, let me hear it,
Shimmy shimmy sha... ♪

00:35:46.950 --> 00:35:48.585
What all these girls
are singing -

00:35:48.824 --> 00:35:50.111
Three, two, three, go.

00:35:50.135 --> 00:35:51.304
I taught all of that.

00:35:51.316 --> 00:35:52.842
Five, three, two, one...

00:35:52.899 --> 00:35:54.767
♪ Ahhhhh... ♪

00:35:54.804 --> 00:35:56.940
Everybody -
three, two, three, go.

00:35:56.988 --> 00:35:59.398
♪ Ahhhhh... ♪

00:35:59.718 --> 00:36:00.837
[laughter]

00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:01.916
- I don't know...

00:36:01.926 --> 00:36:02.913
- That's ok, Shirley.

00:36:05.756 --> 00:36:07.997
- Do you have to grab
me so rough, BeBe?

00:36:07.997 --> 00:36:09.035
- Get used to it.

00:36:09.696 --> 00:36:11.790
I found such a connection
with these singers...

00:36:12.391 --> 00:36:14.640
- Oh, this shit teaches you
posture, that's for damn sure.

00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:17.280
- African women don't - yeah -

00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:19.587
...And the more I'm with them,
the more we've connected,

00:36:19.587 --> 00:36:20.250
and the more we've,

00:36:20.250 --> 00:36:22.710
we've become like such
a, like a family now.

00:36:23.490 --> 00:36:25.470
- And we have to remember when
we do our free dancing now,

00:36:25.507 --> 00:36:27.943
we can't be all,
booty-booty,

00:36:28.736 --> 00:36:30.669
booty-boo whoop, ah!

00:36:31.500 --> 00:36:35.040
I'd always dreamt of
having a show where,

00:36:35.250 --> 00:36:36.796
the best way
to describe it would be

00:36:36.831 --> 00:36:38.940
"Cirque du Soleil
meets Lion King."

00:36:40.710 --> 00:36:43.689
Now I know there was no way
that I could create

00:36:43.713 --> 00:36:46.601
a big show like that just,
right off the bat.

00:36:46.648 --> 00:36:48.692
So I was like, okay,
what I need to do

00:36:48.727 --> 00:36:51.571
is start small, intimate,
and then let it build itself.

00:36:51.878 --> 00:36:54.360
So birth it, and let it grow.

00:36:54.860 --> 00:36:59.059
♪ I'm a She Hunter,
hunting for your love. ♪

00:36:59.094 --> 00:37:02.146
♪ And no matter where you are,
I'm gonna find your heart... ♪♪

00:37:02.411 --> 00:37:06.108
I'm at a point where I'm over
being the first winner of,

00:37:06.108 --> 00:37:07.322
you know RuPaul's Drag Race.

00:37:07.322 --> 00:37:09.750
I just want to be BeBe.
You know what I'm saying?

00:37:13.200 --> 00:37:16.502
I'm working on a song
for her show "Creature."

00:37:16.834 --> 00:37:19.560
There's a - the show goes into
different worlds and themes...

00:37:19.910 --> 00:37:23.838
[♪ whimsical music ♪]

00:37:26.190 --> 00:37:28.305
I'm meeting people
to talk about Creature,

00:37:28.305 --> 00:37:30.420
which needs to be
bigger than life,

00:37:30.450 --> 00:37:32.498
which in five years
needs to be like

00:37:32.498 --> 00:37:34.290
the biggest show
that is out there,

00:37:34.291 --> 00:37:35.567
like the biggest spectacle

00:37:35.567 --> 00:37:37.800
and possibly having it
find itself in Vegas.

00:37:46.453 --> 00:37:49.185
[muffled awards show
acceptance speech on TV]

00:37:49.742 --> 00:37:51.420
Do you think we would ever

00:37:53.340 --> 00:37:54.780
get an Emmy for something?

00:37:59.940 --> 00:38:01.920
We all strive for greatness.

00:38:01.921 --> 00:38:05.070
We all strive for the -
to be the top of the top.

00:38:05.160 --> 00:38:08.010
What I aspire to be is
to be very successful,

00:38:08.100 --> 00:38:12.780
to be a household name and
to be a ver- like, and to be,

00:38:13.860 --> 00:38:16.080
um, like a business mogul.

00:38:16.140 --> 00:38:18.540
- What's your product, just you?

00:38:18.540 --> 00:38:20.130
- My aim is - what do you mean?

00:38:31.410 --> 00:38:34.110
My mom and my dad
are very supportive.

00:38:35.550 --> 00:38:38.017
They're warming up to the idea

00:38:38.017 --> 00:38:41.308
of what I have chosen
for a career.

00:38:43.292 --> 00:38:45.297
They want me
to be successful.

00:38:45.410 --> 00:38:48.800
They really do.
All they ask for is success.

00:38:53.770 --> 00:38:55.590
People are aware
of what I do.

00:38:55.590 --> 00:38:57.670
It's not a secret.
Of course it's not.

00:38:58.870 --> 00:39:02.320
I think that because I made it
to a certain status,

00:39:02.500 --> 00:39:04.841
I think the way I am looked at
is different.

00:39:04.866 --> 00:39:06.912
You know, because
I am on television

00:39:06.912 --> 00:39:09.250
and because I've created
such a brand for myself.

00:39:09.460 --> 00:39:12.760
But I do feel like if
I was not the "BeBe," now,

00:39:13.660 --> 00:39:15.400
it would be a different
kind of conversation.

00:39:25.561 --> 00:39:27.764
[street sounds]

00:39:29.911 --> 00:39:31.939
[pop music plays in kitchen]

00:40:28.730 --> 00:40:29.737
[muffled chatter in French]

00:40:51.808 --> 00:40:53.976
[chatter in French and pop music
in kitchen]

00:41:08.241 --> 00:41:09.354
[singing along to pop music]

00:41:21.042 --> 00:41:22.320
Delicious!

00:41:23.171 --> 00:41:25.214
- Mama like to cook!

00:41:26.737 --> 00:41:28.955
[conversation in French]

00:42:24.861 --> 00:42:26.360
It's really disheartening.

00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:32.780
There're so many Cameroonians
that are queer, that might,

00:42:32.930 --> 00:42:37.130
unfortunately might never ever
even live out loud or be,

00:42:37.190 --> 00:42:38.966
be who they need to be,

00:42:38.966 --> 00:42:41.630
just because of what the
society and the culture is.

00:42:41.631 --> 00:42:43.573
And it's not supposed
to be that way,

00:42:43.573 --> 00:42:45.396
but it's just that way.

00:42:49.160 --> 00:42:50.797
While I would want
to take a stand

00:42:50.797 --> 00:42:52.640
and say, this is how
it needs to be,

00:42:52.940 --> 00:42:54.340
I have to be careful.

00:42:54.340 --> 00:42:56.300
I have to approach
certain things with caution.

00:42:58.130 --> 00:43:00.565
If I could take a stand
and expose just myself

00:43:00.589 --> 00:43:02.881
and no other person
is going to be involved?

00:43:02.916 --> 00:43:03.530
Yes.

00:43:04.550 --> 00:43:07.910
It all needs to be
handled with care,

00:43:08.090 --> 00:43:12.860
because you put
people's lives at risk

00:43:12.861 --> 00:43:14.540
and you put families at risk.

00:43:28.370 --> 00:43:31.000
♪ Take my hand, don't shy away ♪

00:43:31.490 --> 00:43:34.717
♪ Take my hand, don't shy away ♪

00:43:35.048 --> 00:43:37.665
♪ Take my hand, don't shy away ♪

00:43:37.665 --> 00:43:39.734
Really hit the
"I" in the "shy"

00:43:39.734 --> 00:43:42.710
♪ Take my hand, don't shy away ♪

00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:45.200
Try and sing it
without using your tongue.

00:43:45.290 --> 00:43:46.626
I've noticed
that your language

00:43:46.626 --> 00:43:48.230
requires a lot more
tongue usage.

00:43:48.470 --> 00:43:50.002
And when you don't
use your tongue as much -

00:43:50.002 --> 00:43:51.494
♪ Shy away. ♪

00:43:51.494 --> 00:43:52.760
That's it. There you go.

00:43:53.090 --> 00:43:55.790
I think what would make
an enormous difference,

00:43:55.790 --> 00:43:58.250
is if you took diction lessons.

00:43:59.630 --> 00:44:00.463
- Okay...

00:44:00.500 --> 00:44:02.357
- Sorta like
if you were an actor

00:44:02.357 --> 00:44:03.950
and you took on a role

00:44:03.951 --> 00:44:05.510
and you had to learn
an Irish accent?

00:44:06.560 --> 00:44:08.371
I think you should go

00:44:08.371 --> 00:44:11.270
and find somebody that
can teach you to speak

00:44:11.510 --> 00:44:13.370
with an American accent.

00:44:14.570 --> 00:44:18.082
♪ Take my hand,
don't shy away, ♪

00:44:18.082 --> 00:44:21.222
♪ I will be the answer... ♪♪

00:44:22.190 --> 00:44:25.250
When it comes to this whole
accent thing or whatever,

00:44:25.310 --> 00:44:27.050
it is frustrating because okay,

00:44:27.051 --> 00:44:30.620
now I have to change who I am
or change where I come from,

00:44:30.621 --> 00:44:31.820
or what's part of my heritage,

00:44:31.821 --> 00:44:36.490
because I want to make myself
accessible to the American - or

00:44:36.491 --> 00:44:39.220
those who are going
to be buying my music.

00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:43.180
I personally don't think
it is fair.

00:44:46.293 --> 00:44:48.697
[♪ chanting ♪]

00:44:49.065 --> 00:44:51.006
Gather round...

00:44:53.058 --> 00:44:54.449
Come gather round...

00:44:58.483 --> 00:45:00.065
- This is the video.

00:45:01.453 --> 00:45:02.911
Gather round...

00:45:03.305 --> 00:45:07.137
I love it! I love it.

00:45:08.010 --> 00:45:11.670
I was open to trying,
but if you notice,

00:45:11.700 --> 00:45:16.290
I kept going back to global
and the world and my culture.

00:45:16.291 --> 00:45:20.190
I kept going back.
I would try a little here,

00:45:20.430 --> 00:45:21.570
but I will go back.

00:45:22.061 --> 00:45:23.490
♪ Sunset...♪

00:45:23.888 --> 00:45:25.294
♪ spirits high...♪

00:45:26.088 --> 00:45:27.384
♪ voices...♪

00:45:28.244 --> 00:45:29.688
♪ laughter...♪

00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:32.127
♪ the magic ♪

00:45:32.127 --> 00:45:35.112
♪ of the sunset. ♪

00:45:49.131 --> 00:45:52.120
Marsh - this is gorgeous.

00:45:52.290 --> 00:45:55.143
[♪ "Cameroon" by BeBe
playing on stereo ♪]

00:46:11.462 --> 00:46:14.213
You've got bags
under your eyes, child.

00:46:14.250 --> 00:46:16.980
You've been working the
candle on both ends.

00:46:27.001 --> 00:46:32.959
♪ BeBe Zahara, BeBe Zahara,
BeBe Zahara Benet. ♪

00:46:33.624 --> 00:46:36.358
Hello, New York, hello!

00:46:42.471 --> 00:46:44.518
Oh now, I love
an audience like this.

00:46:44.530 --> 00:46:45.831
We're about to rock this house.

00:46:49.737 --> 00:46:53.513
- I just want to let you know,
Cameroon is a country.

00:46:53.572 --> 00:46:55.371
And Africa is a continent.

00:46:56.035 --> 00:46:57.330
And just to let you know,

00:46:57.600 --> 00:47:00.800
we don't just live in huts
and hunt lions.

00:47:01.924 --> 00:47:02.875
Just saying.

00:47:04.110 --> 00:47:05.631
Are you nervous?

00:47:06.491 --> 00:47:08.143
Oh. You're not nervous?

00:47:08.672 --> 00:47:10.723
You should be nervous.

00:47:12.111 --> 00:47:14.178
Do you want to know why?

00:47:15.390 --> 00:47:17.497
It's because I look like
your mother.

00:47:18.555 --> 00:47:21.230
But I'm built like
your father.

00:47:21.957 --> 00:47:23.478
Just saying.

00:47:28.680 --> 00:47:31.430
After it was all done,
I was like, Oh my gosh,

00:47:31.580 --> 00:47:32.921
it's one of my
biggest achievements

00:47:32.921 --> 00:47:34.040
when it comes to drag.

00:47:34.690 --> 00:47:37.706
♪ Cameroon, she is Cameroon ♪

00:47:38.103 --> 00:47:41.538
♪ Cameroon,
they call her Cameroon ♪

00:47:48.945 --> 00:47:52.739
♪ I found my way
back home, home ♪

00:47:56.200 --> 00:47:58.239
Thank you everybody, goodnight!

00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:02.800
And we got to the point,

00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:06.100
where we were about to
take this to the next level -

00:48:08.470 --> 00:48:09.419
And all of a sudden,

00:48:09.419 --> 00:48:11.319
poof, there's nothing.

00:48:15.376 --> 00:48:18.723
[subway noise]

00:48:25.420 --> 00:48:27.407
Producers' meetings kept
dwindling down,

00:48:27.419 --> 00:48:29.527
"Oh, we'll meet tomorrow,
or we'll meet this day..."

00:48:29.566 --> 00:48:31.299
And then all of a sudden
we hear that

00:48:31.299 --> 00:48:33.183
their investors pulled out.

00:48:38.440 --> 00:48:39.880
I'd taken all my savings,

00:48:40.300 --> 00:48:44.260
all my money - everything -
and put it in that show.

00:48:50.870 --> 00:48:53.110
I was like, I don't think
I can even do this anymore.

00:48:53.111 --> 00:48:54.295
So I got really
really frustrated

00:48:54.295 --> 00:48:55.480
and I'm like,
you know what?

00:48:55.770 --> 00:48:57.202
I had to take those feelings,

00:48:57.202 --> 00:48:59.350
I had to regroup.
I had to find my purpose.

00:48:59.710 --> 00:49:01.285
You know, go back
to those reasons

00:49:01.285 --> 00:49:03.310
that made me move
to come to New York City.

00:49:03.520 --> 00:49:06.820
What were those reasons that
I believed so strongly in?

00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:12.334
I cannot just come and try to
live this bougie lifestyle.

00:49:12.394 --> 00:49:15.178
You know? I have to come back -

00:49:15.178 --> 00:49:16.570
down to Earth honey.

00:49:18.318 --> 00:49:19.932
New York is very trying

00:49:19.932 --> 00:49:21.700
because you have to create
your own opportunities.

00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:25.288
Everybody here is fighting
for the same thing.

00:49:25.288 --> 00:49:27.820
I'm a small fish
in a very big pond.

00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:32.260
And I had to catch that
real fast, you know?

00:49:35.908 --> 00:49:37.098
It fell apart.

00:49:38.230 --> 00:49:43.157
It just seems like everything
at that moment was, a "No."

00:49:44.890 --> 00:49:46.990
It's great if you're
open and receptive

00:49:46.990 --> 00:49:49.818
to all the colors
of the human expression...

00:49:51.585 --> 00:49:54.290
...but it's important
to understand that it's all you.

00:49:55.270 --> 00:49:57.910
It's all you. Just
different sides of you.

00:49:59.230 --> 00:50:01.930
Now there are reasons why
actors don't access them.

00:50:02.290 --> 00:50:03.970
Tell me what
some of the reasons are.

00:50:04.780 --> 00:50:05.942
- They're ashamed.

00:50:05.942 --> 00:50:07.807
- Shame of what?
- Being exposed.

00:50:08.733 --> 00:50:10.327
- Fear of rejection.

00:50:10.327 --> 00:50:11.770
- How about fear of mockery?

00:50:13.180 --> 00:50:14.074
- Fear of failing.

00:50:14.074 --> 00:50:14.839
- Fear of judgment.

00:50:15.730 --> 00:50:17.222
- Fear of being exploited.

00:50:17.234 --> 00:50:18.157
- Exploited, ah.

00:50:18.180 --> 00:50:20.267
Why should I be vulnerable,
if it will be used against me,

00:50:20.981 --> 00:50:22.257
if you will mock me?

00:50:22.257 --> 00:50:24.555
I don't need to expose myself
in front of you.

00:50:24.821 --> 00:50:26.061
Well, guess what?

00:50:27.081 --> 00:50:28.956
We all, at times,
need to protect ourselves,

00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:32.687
but we're not
showing the world who we are.

00:50:33.216 --> 00:50:35.937
Your job is
to sell experiences.

00:50:36.995 --> 00:50:38.010
To sell life.

00:50:39.798 --> 00:50:42.380
- I can't...this is too hot.

00:50:45.590 --> 00:50:48.177
- All right, everyone.
Everyone relax.

00:50:48.435 --> 00:50:49.820
Suck in the air deep,
on the sound,

00:50:49.821 --> 00:50:51.080
let out an exhale.

00:50:51.714 --> 00:50:56.547
[audible exhales]

00:50:57.267 --> 00:50:58.782
Ugh...
[laughs]

00:51:18.298 --> 00:51:18.954
- Go.

00:51:18.954 --> 00:51:20.678
[screams]

00:51:20.802 --> 00:51:23.789
- Punch! On your feet!

00:51:24.450 --> 00:51:25.468
I'm fucking great.

00:51:25.733 --> 00:51:27.026
- I'm fucking great.

00:51:29.341 --> 00:51:32.986
- I've put so much weight.
That's for sure.

00:51:33.170 --> 00:51:36.712
When I did Drag Race,
I was so small.

00:51:37.373 --> 00:51:38.631
Now...

00:51:39.560 --> 00:51:41.785
Bitch is a big cookie,
honey.

00:51:41.785 --> 00:51:44.034
I'm an emotional eater,
you know what I mean?

00:51:44.810 --> 00:51:45.643
So like -

00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:51.410
So I just eat, you know?

00:51:57.514 --> 00:51:58.480
[low murmurs:
How do I feel... I feel...]

00:52:05.687 --> 00:52:08.315
How do I feel,
I feel stressed.

00:52:11.280 --> 00:52:12.588
How am I going to
push the boundaries

00:52:12.588 --> 00:52:13.720
and how am I going to
get the people

00:52:13.731 --> 00:52:15.710
who are supposed to notice me,
to notice me,

00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:17.865
if I'm not trying to
take a little bit more risk

00:52:17.877 --> 00:52:19.312
than I'm taking right now?

00:52:20.451 --> 00:52:21.876
Finally!

00:52:24.890 --> 00:52:26.716
That's how you get a bitch!

00:52:26.716 --> 00:52:28.828
- How are you?
- What's up darling?

00:52:28.828 --> 00:52:30.346
- Hi gorgeous!

00:52:32.278 --> 00:52:34.193
- Nappy-headed hoes,
I never liked...

00:52:35.317 --> 00:52:37.939
- Oh my gosh.
Put your hands togeth -

00:52:37.939 --> 00:52:39.262
- But what about [other singer]

00:52:39.262 --> 00:52:41.390
- Oh. Okay guys.

00:52:41.391 --> 00:52:43.206
So we are gonna talk -
a couple things -

00:52:43.206 --> 00:52:44.840
I want to thank you all
for being here.

00:52:44.841 --> 00:52:46.131
I know it's been a minute.

00:52:46.178 --> 00:52:49.607
We haven't like, had any
rehearsals or anything.

00:52:49.790 --> 00:52:51.470
One of the main reasons was,

00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:54.620
I thought it was very
important for me to step back.

00:52:54.890 --> 00:52:58.100
What about me
makes people very excited?

00:52:58.160 --> 00:53:00.350
When people come to
watch BeBe Zahara Benet,

00:53:00.350 --> 00:53:02.210
what are the things
that they really like?

00:53:02.660 --> 00:53:05.453
People find a
sense of belonging.

00:53:05.456 --> 00:53:07.736
Like, they feel like
they're part of something,

00:53:07.736 --> 00:53:09.290
and we've always
done that very well.

00:53:09.500 --> 00:53:11.575
So why not give people
the opportunity

00:53:11.587 --> 00:53:13.217
to see me
up close and personal?

00:53:13.287 --> 00:53:13.935
- Right.

00:53:13.982 --> 00:53:15.661
- So that brought me
to the point where I decided

00:53:15.661 --> 00:53:17.840
that I wanted to do a new show,

00:53:18.260 --> 00:53:21.230
where people are going to
come and experience us.

00:53:21.350 --> 00:53:23.540
People are going to come
and experience the music.

00:53:23.780 --> 00:53:25.640
They're going to come
and experience stories.

00:53:25.730 --> 00:53:28.870
They're going to experience
different facets of us, of me,

00:53:28.871 --> 00:53:30.070
of what I want to talk about.

00:53:30.280 --> 00:53:32.414
And that's why the show
will be called "Reveal."

00:53:32.446 --> 00:53:34.010
It will be a little bit
uncomfortable for me -

00:53:34.133 --> 00:53:35.080
- Yeah, I understand that

00:53:35.081 --> 00:53:37.154
- Because it's new for me.
I don't do that.

00:53:47.939 --> 00:53:49.328
- Wow. That's big.

00:53:49.328 --> 00:53:50.551
- It was a big decision.

00:53:50.551 --> 00:53:52.510
Because I'm not going to
just sit here,

00:53:52.510 --> 00:53:54.046
and just be here,
just to be here.

00:53:54.573 --> 00:53:57.335
We will create a buzz!
You know?

00:53:57.401 --> 00:53:58.546
We'll create a buzz.

00:53:58.686 --> 00:54:01.496
Whether you like it or not,
we'll create a buzz.

00:54:08.040 --> 00:54:09.455
I stood by the mirror one day
and I said,

00:54:09.490 --> 00:54:10.900
you know, this time around,

00:54:10.920 --> 00:54:13.860
I am not going to let
anybody define who I am.

00:54:14.220 --> 00:54:17.163
I'm not going to let anybody
tell me what to do,

00:54:17.199 --> 00:54:18.792
or what not to do.

00:54:18.810 --> 00:54:20.557
How to dress,
and how not to dress.

00:54:20.581 --> 00:54:23.243
Who to love,
and who not to love.

00:54:23.580 --> 00:54:24.730
- When we met with BeBe,

00:54:24.730 --> 00:54:27.030
one of the big things
that we talked about, you know,

00:54:27.120 --> 00:54:30.510
she was like "Reveal," and
we all were like, "Okay, great,

00:54:31.230 --> 00:54:32.640
let's go deeper."

00:54:32.760 --> 00:54:35.727
- Do people really want to see
me sit here and tell you about

00:54:35.739 --> 00:54:38.367
a little boy
growing up in Africa?

00:54:38.385 --> 00:54:40.327
A lot of times I would
hold back a little bit,

00:54:40.327 --> 00:54:42.087
because I'm like, no,
I'm supposed to be fantasy.

00:54:42.120 --> 00:54:43.365
- Sure, sure.

00:54:43.365 --> 00:54:45.476
- You know, people don't need
to know anything else.

00:54:45.476 --> 00:54:46.166
We want to come.

00:54:46.200 --> 00:54:48.016
We want to watch you perform,
and do your thing -

00:54:48.016 --> 00:54:48.770
- Keep the feathers on.

00:54:48.945 --> 00:54:49.945
- Keep the feathers on.

00:54:49.980 --> 00:54:54.515
Now, what's important is that we
start to surrender to not

00:54:54.515 --> 00:54:59.400
what we want the audience to
see, but to who we are.

00:55:00.540 --> 00:55:03.840
I mean like, I'm going to, I'm
going to take it one -

00:55:04.227 --> 00:55:07.201
one step at a time.

00:55:08.457 --> 00:55:09.519
- I'm just curious -

00:55:09.519 --> 00:55:12.987
I call you, "sir." You know,
I call you "him."

00:55:12.990 --> 00:55:14.640
And a lot of people
call you "her," do you have -

00:55:15.691 --> 00:55:17.278
- Yeah, because they refer
to BeBe.

00:55:17.278 --> 00:55:19.320
So they usually see
that image of BeBe first.

00:55:19.320 --> 00:55:22.035
- Right. How do you feel
about one over the other?

00:55:22.035 --> 00:55:22.770
- I don't care.

00:55:22.860 --> 00:55:23.975
- It doesn't even matter.

00:55:23.975 --> 00:55:25.680
- Yeah. It's -
it needs to be fluid.

00:55:25.680 --> 00:55:27.690
Whatever's rocking your
boat at that moment.

00:55:28.440 --> 00:55:30.390
- Okay.
Let me speak to BeBe.

00:55:31.320 --> 00:55:32.153
- Okay.

00:55:38.970 --> 00:55:41.140
- Hi there.
- Hi.

00:55:41.140 --> 00:55:42.675
- I'm working with Marshall.

00:55:42.675 --> 00:55:43.786
- Mm-kay.

00:55:43.786 --> 00:55:47.640
- And how powerful
are you in his life?

00:55:48.330 --> 00:55:52.890
- I think Marshall, um,
cannot live without me.

00:55:53.100 --> 00:55:55.925
- Do you recall when
you were developed,

00:55:55.925 --> 00:55:57.943
or were you always there?

00:55:57.960 --> 00:56:02.490
- Oh, I was always there. Right
from when he, he was birthed.

00:56:03.060 --> 00:56:06.244
You know, whenever he wanted
to wear those high heels,

00:56:06.244 --> 00:56:07.250
when he was young.

00:56:07.290 --> 00:56:09.390
Whenever he wanted to put that

00:56:09.390 --> 00:56:11.490
lipstick from
the mom's dressing area,

00:56:11.730 --> 00:56:12.840
I was always there.

00:56:13.140 --> 00:56:18.030
- What would you do if you can
just always take over his life?

00:56:18.390 --> 00:56:19.440
- How will I take over hi-....?

00:56:22.350 --> 00:56:25.580
I would let him just
always express himself.

00:56:25.610 --> 00:56:27.867
Like however he wants
to express himself,

00:56:27.867 --> 00:56:29.802
and flaunt it and own it,

00:56:29.844 --> 00:56:34.070
and not feel like some other
person is looking at you and

00:56:34.071 --> 00:56:36.620
pointing fingers and wanting to
judge you. You know,

00:56:36.621 --> 00:56:38.879
you can just walk down
and own it and say,

00:56:38.879 --> 00:56:40.460
you know,
you can't take me, honey.

00:56:40.760 --> 00:56:42.646
You know? You can't take me,

00:56:42.646 --> 00:56:45.161
but here I am.
And I'm going nowhere.

00:56:49.240 --> 00:56:51.820
The biggest thing that we're
launching off of is the title.

00:56:52.120 --> 00:56:53.848
This idea of "Reveal,"

00:56:53.848 --> 00:56:56.009
framing it with this
behind-the-scenes video,

00:56:56.009 --> 00:56:59.680
that's of BeBe as a boy,
and us getting to know like,

00:56:59.860 --> 00:57:03.280
who is that? And how is she
contextualizing the like,

00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:06.944
opulent grand - the opulent
this - the boom, boom, boom -

00:57:16.603 --> 00:57:17.959
- Just stay right there.

00:57:17.959 --> 00:57:19.574
[BeBe laughs]

00:57:20.170 --> 00:57:24.730
- Okay. So, um, I actually don't
know how you identify sexually.

00:57:24.820 --> 00:57:27.515
So I don't want to put like
labels on top of you -

00:57:27.515 --> 00:57:28.270
- Right.

00:57:28.540 --> 00:57:29.640
- So, tell us about love.

00:57:29.640 --> 00:57:31.840
Have you ever been in love?
When was your first love?

00:57:32.380 --> 00:57:36.760
- Have I been in love?
Yes. I've been in love.

00:57:38.020 --> 00:57:41.086
I definitely -
I've been in love. Um -

00:57:41.086 --> 00:57:45.531
Oh my gosh,
I hate talking about...

00:57:46.655 --> 00:57:48.340
It's so stupid!

00:57:48.413 --> 00:57:49.195
- It's not!

00:57:49.242 --> 00:57:50.588
- Yes it is.

00:57:50.588 --> 00:57:52.002
It sounds so -
"have you been in love" -

00:57:52.026 --> 00:57:53.584
it just sounds so cheesy -

00:57:53.627 --> 00:57:57.850
yes, I've been in love...
No but I have been. And it's,

00:57:57.880 --> 00:58:01.988
you know, it's been -
it's been very bittersweet.

00:58:01.988 --> 00:58:02.488
- Why?

00:58:03.280 --> 00:58:05.562
- Because of - just in terms of,

00:58:05.562 --> 00:58:08.170
the idea of
being able to just love,

00:58:09.100 --> 00:58:13.420
you know. What happened to love?
What happened to -

00:58:15.340 --> 00:58:17.080
just loving
who you want to love?

00:58:18.970 --> 00:58:20.305
It almost feels like
that freedom

00:58:20.305 --> 00:58:21.640
has been taken away from us.

00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:25.204
And it's destroying
a lot of people.

00:58:25.204 --> 00:58:28.055
Even if you love,
you should not be able to.

00:58:28.064 --> 00:58:30.010
So that freedom is even
taken away from us,

00:58:30.011 --> 00:58:33.019
so why do we even love? Why?

00:58:33.019 --> 00:58:35.320
Why is there even the word love?

00:58:40.660 --> 00:58:43.870
Wow, that was from the
Reveal stuff, Em, right?

00:58:44.576 --> 00:58:47.503
Yeah, that was the Reveal
shoot for the show.

00:58:47.503 --> 00:58:50.105
And I guess
I wanted to ask you,

00:58:50.260 --> 00:58:51.820
how do you identify now?

00:58:52.360 --> 00:58:54.640
I identify myself as Marshall.

00:58:56.290 --> 00:58:58.930
I still don't say I'm gay or
straight, because I feel like,

00:58:58.960 --> 00:59:01.426
why should I have to still
say I'm gay or straight?

00:59:01.449 --> 00:59:02.740
I am Marshall.

00:59:03.010 --> 00:59:05.690
And if I happen to love a man,
I happen to love a man.

00:59:05.710 --> 00:59:07.960
If I happen to love a woman,
I happen to love a woman.

00:59:08.140 --> 00:59:10.466
I identify myself
as a human being

00:59:10.466 --> 00:59:12.460
and I identify myself
as Marshall.

00:59:15.160 --> 00:59:18.310
There's this thing of,
"I'm gonna be me," you know?

00:59:18.311 --> 00:59:20.517
And sometimes that
comes with risks

00:59:20.540 --> 00:59:23.070
when you're in a place
that can be very dangerous.

01:00:07.213 --> 01:00:09.885
[concert sound check]

01:00:18.127 --> 01:00:21.672
[♪ plaintive music in French ♪]

01:00:48.740 --> 01:00:49.573
♪ Thank you! ♪♪

01:01:04.698 --> 01:01:07.978
I am the best

01:01:08.930 --> 01:01:12.620
drag entertainer
that you have ever

01:01:13.850 --> 01:01:16.040
met, or even seen.

01:01:17.510 --> 01:01:19.940
When I walk
down the street,

01:01:19.940 --> 01:01:22.370
I mean, people like,
would throw petals,

01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:23.526
like rose petals literally

01:01:23.526 --> 01:01:25.778
for me to walk through
because the ground -

01:01:25.778 --> 01:01:27.957
like that floor
is tainted, literally.

01:01:31.206 --> 01:01:31.795
Shoop!

01:01:32.002 --> 01:01:33.470
Oh my gosh.
I've got to lose weight.

01:01:33.560 --> 01:01:34.785
I'm very talented guys.

01:01:34.785 --> 01:01:36.623
I'm very, very -
I'm very talented.

01:01:36.623 --> 01:01:37.520
Zip it up - it's like -

01:01:37.520 --> 01:01:40.270
Ugh!

01:01:40.430 --> 01:01:41.350
Isn't that cute?

01:01:41.390 --> 01:01:42.827
Like literally,
I don't even know

01:01:42.827 --> 01:01:46.387
if there's anybody in this room
as talented as me.

01:01:47.379 --> 01:01:48.180
I don't.

01:01:48.740 --> 01:01:50.039
- Are you a diva?

01:01:51.097 --> 01:01:53.090
I have a problem
from here to here,

01:01:53.150 --> 01:01:54.610
and the bottom
needs to be bigger.

01:01:54.875 --> 01:01:56.696
What's your definition
of diva?

01:01:57.680 --> 01:02:00.505
I'm not wearing that stuff
with this. Oh, hell no.

01:02:00.540 --> 01:02:01.537
Well let me
tell you something -

01:02:01.561 --> 01:02:02.651
if you go
with this dress -

01:02:02.674 --> 01:02:03.377
- Just put it on!

01:02:03.377 --> 01:02:05.062
- You're gonna do
the adjustments on the top

01:02:05.203 --> 01:02:06.200
I'm telling you that right now -

01:02:06.230 --> 01:02:09.853
Because your definition of diva
is everything that I...

01:02:10.382 --> 01:02:11.454
- Yeah?

01:02:12.350 --> 01:02:14.540
- I can sit here and
be like, "That's pretty, BeBe.

01:02:14.541 --> 01:02:16.220
That's pretty,"
and lie to you...

01:02:16.280 --> 01:02:17.646
- You want to know
what's wrong?

01:02:17.646 --> 01:02:19.468
- This thing is
right in the middle.

01:02:19.468 --> 01:02:20.090
- That is wrong.

01:02:20.680 --> 01:02:21.790
- It's just right in the middle.

01:02:21.790 --> 01:02:22.623
- It's so wrong.

01:02:22.690 --> 01:02:24.910
I need to end with
something signature "BeBe."

01:02:24.910 --> 01:02:29.950
This is very, Queen of
Zamunda, has showed up....

01:02:50.189 --> 01:02:51.944
BeBe, I want to
give you an update.

01:02:51.944 --> 01:02:53.700
None of our industry people
are here yet.

01:02:53.701 --> 01:02:55.817
People thought the doors
opened at seven,

01:02:55.817 --> 01:02:57.375
that's, I think
a little issue.

01:02:57.390 --> 01:02:58.571
Is there anything else
I can do for you?

01:02:58.571 --> 01:02:59.520
- No I'm good.

01:02:59.544 --> 01:03:00.536
- Ok. You look beautiful.

01:03:00.559 --> 01:03:01.859
- So, but why would
they think...?

01:03:01.883 --> 01:03:03.364
Ok. Got it.

01:03:08.569 --> 01:03:11.104
ANNOUNCER: BeBe Zahara Benet...

01:03:15.811 --> 01:03:17.829
[♪ rhythmic intro ♪]

01:03:19.402 --> 01:03:21.060
I was ready give it up.

01:03:21.420 --> 01:03:26.370
I kept being disappointed over
and over and over by people

01:03:26.371 --> 01:03:29.220
who had promised me so many
things with my career.

01:03:30.060 --> 01:03:33.521
And I felt I had to
end up doing it

01:03:33.521 --> 01:03:35.544
all by myself.

01:03:36.277 --> 01:03:38.834
♪ Face... ♪

01:03:40.421 --> 01:03:41.559
♪ face... ♪

01:03:43.742 --> 01:03:46.641
♪ Hi there, I think you know
exactly who I am - ♪

01:03:46.641 --> 01:03:48.362
♪ But in case you don't know
where to find me, ♪

01:03:48.362 --> 01:03:50.336
♪ ah, check me out. ♪

01:03:50.336 --> 01:03:52.582
♪ If you look for fashion
in blogs and magazines ♪

01:03:52.710 --> 01:03:54.760
Take off my shoes.
Take, take my shoes off.

01:03:54.760 --> 01:03:57.782
♪ Don't be surprised
if Google gives you BeBe ♪

01:03:57.849 --> 01:04:00.269
♪ if you look for curves,
you're in the right place ♪

01:04:00.269 --> 01:04:00.841
♪ Really? ♪

01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:03.926
♪ Yes, I got that too -
but nothing beats the face! ♪

01:04:11.835 --> 01:04:13.478
[applause]

01:04:16.312 --> 01:04:17.078
Guys I got kind -

01:04:17.078 --> 01:04:17.848
You know this -

01:04:17.871 --> 01:04:20.001
when I got up this morning
I was very emotional.

01:04:20.048 --> 01:04:20.768
I really was.

01:04:21.120 --> 01:04:22.695
And I kind of looked
at myself in the mirror

01:04:22.730 --> 01:04:24.500
and I just really
was about to

01:04:24.541 --> 01:04:27.420
really start crying.
I really did. And um,

01:04:28.500 --> 01:04:31.350
I just didn't understand why
God has to do what he does.

01:04:31.920 --> 01:04:34.680
Sometimes I ask these questions,
like, "Father, why me?

01:04:35.040 --> 01:04:38.030
Why do you have to make me
look so flawless?"

01:04:38.648 --> 01:04:41.557
[big laughs]

01:04:41.601 --> 01:04:44.033
- You had the entire room.

01:04:44.033 --> 01:04:48.398
- I was like, wait for it...
here we go.

01:04:48.398 --> 01:04:49.965
I took you through
a moment -

01:04:51.578 --> 01:04:52.505
C'mon!

01:04:52.505 --> 01:04:54.694
[♪ upbeat dance music
with chanting ♪]

01:04:55.651 --> 01:04:59.901
Get on your feet!
There you go - ladies!

01:05:32.888 --> 01:05:33.745
Thank you everybody,

01:05:33.745 --> 01:05:35.461
thank you for
coming out tonight.

01:05:35.461 --> 01:05:39.551
I love you all. I love you
up there, I love you.

01:05:39.551 --> 01:05:41.971
Have a wonderful
night, I love you.

01:05:41.982 --> 01:05:43.878
Good night everybody!

01:05:44.026 --> 01:05:45.739
[applause and cheers]

01:06:35.011 --> 01:06:35.873
[loud exhale]

01:06:37.401 --> 01:06:39.150
People think that
because you're on stage,

01:06:39.150 --> 01:06:40.900
then all of a sudden,
you're rich.

01:06:41.440 --> 01:06:42.838
But what people
fail to understand

01:06:42.838 --> 01:06:44.470
is that you're paying
for the venue.

01:06:44.471 --> 01:06:46.480
You're paying everybody
that's part of the show.

01:06:46.690 --> 01:06:48.919
You're paying for
all of these things.

01:06:48.919 --> 01:06:50.830
By the time you are done,

01:06:50.920 --> 01:06:53.010
we were barely making even.

01:06:54.790 --> 01:06:56.913
I'm going to go into
another part now.

01:06:56.913 --> 01:06:58.240
Relax yourself,
stand up straight,

01:06:58.241 --> 01:06:59.110
hands down please.

01:06:59.290 --> 01:07:01.105
Now look at someone
in the eyes

01:07:01.105 --> 01:07:02.920
in the house
and lock into them.

01:07:03.220 --> 01:07:05.561
Who are you looking at? Polo?
Alright.

01:07:05.561 --> 01:07:08.533
Now, Polo sees you.

01:07:08.980 --> 01:07:12.700
She sees the side of you
that is feminine.

01:07:13.810 --> 01:07:15.730
And the side of you
that is masculine.

01:07:24.410 --> 01:07:28.780
She sees the side of you
that is extremely talented.

01:07:28.780 --> 01:07:31.540
And the side of you
that is void of talent.

01:07:47.497 --> 01:07:52.616
- She sees the side of you
that is a freakin' warrior,

01:07:52.900 --> 01:07:57.790
that gets up every morning
and battles the good fight

01:07:58.234 --> 01:08:00.104
of what's right.

01:08:00.104 --> 01:08:00.970
She sees that.

01:08:04.690 --> 01:08:08.861
And she sees the coward,
where you stay small,

01:08:08.861 --> 01:08:11.178
and don't put yourself out.

01:08:15.181 --> 01:08:16.000
Sound.

01:08:19.664 --> 01:08:21.066
[quiet exhale]

01:08:27.068 --> 01:08:27.978
Sound.

01:08:28.300 --> 01:08:29.728
[slightly louder
exhale]

01:08:30.304 --> 01:08:30.980
-Yeah.

01:08:40.945 --> 01:08:42.281
[vocalized exhale]

01:09:23.507 --> 01:09:24.456
[baby cries]

01:09:24.502 --> 01:09:27.169
Let's go, let's go.
Bye -

01:09:27.169 --> 01:09:28.664
Oh my God.

01:09:29.027 --> 01:09:31.062
[baby cries in distance]

01:10:12.436 --> 01:10:14.804
[muffled laughter]

01:10:21.247 --> 01:10:22.642
[muffled reality TV show]

01:10:23.720 --> 01:10:27.200
I'm glad to be home. I'm glad
to be by my family. You know.

01:10:28.820 --> 01:10:31.430
I don't know what's next for me,
in terms of where I will go,

01:10:31.460 --> 01:10:34.070
if I'm gonna stay here, if I'm
going to move back to New York,

01:10:34.070 --> 01:10:36.650
if I'm going to go to LA...
I don't know.

01:10:37.245 --> 01:10:38.994
FROM TV: When people say
things aren't possible,

01:10:38.994 --> 01:10:41.036
let me tell you
they really are.

01:10:41.565 --> 01:10:42.408
- Aw!

01:10:46.820 --> 01:10:49.476
To be very honest with you,
the 90's has not changed.

01:10:50.865 --> 01:10:53.319
There's a part of me, that,
like the ego part of me,

01:10:53.319 --> 01:10:54.860
where it's like,
okay, I won Drag Race,

01:10:54.890 --> 01:10:56.180
I've done so much
for myself,

01:10:56.450 --> 01:10:57.974
I'm gonna be going
back to this place

01:10:57.974 --> 01:10:59.690
to be making the same
kind of money that

01:10:59.691 --> 01:11:01.578
all the girls
who have not achieved

01:11:01.602 --> 01:11:03.763
half of what
I have achieved...

01:11:03.763 --> 01:11:05.614
You know,
like square one.

01:11:16.606 --> 01:11:18.180
- But then, okay.

01:11:18.660 --> 01:11:21.570
I gotta put my ego aside.
It's a job.

01:11:22.350 --> 01:11:24.780
I have my fans there,
to see me.

01:11:25.080 --> 01:11:27.847
I have money that I
can be making there.

01:11:27.847 --> 01:11:29.310
I have opportunity.

01:11:30.240 --> 01:11:31.867
And it's what I do with it.

01:11:33.789 --> 01:11:35.916
Something - Is it this
that smells burnt?

01:11:35.916 --> 01:11:37.620
- It's probably the steamer.

01:11:37.621 --> 01:11:39.000
- No it's not the st-,
girl, really?

01:11:40.290 --> 01:11:40.771
- It's the steam,
smell the steam -

01:11:40.771 --> 01:11:42.750
- Well it probably hasn't
been heated up in forever...

01:11:42.750 --> 01:11:44.398
- It's - the water in there's
probably really old.

01:11:44.398 --> 01:11:46.458
- Oh really?

01:11:47.781 --> 01:11:48.646
Bitch.

01:11:55.380 --> 01:11:58.320
- Um, actually October
was 19 years.

01:12:00.570 --> 01:12:02.970
- October will make you 19,
19 years?

01:12:02.970 --> 01:12:03.594
- Yeah.

01:12:03.744 --> 01:12:04.950
- That's crazy.

01:12:08.381 --> 01:12:10.634
- Yeah, hopefully
not be here...

01:12:20.880 --> 01:12:24.142
There are times where you
have to take steps behind

01:12:24.142 --> 01:12:26.287
to make many steps forward.

01:12:26.607 --> 01:12:29.025
EMCEE: BeBe Zahara Benet...

01:12:44.133 --> 01:12:45.636
You don't want to
look at yourself -

01:12:45.660 --> 01:12:47.100
You want to look
behind the car -

01:12:47.431 --> 01:12:49.664
- Calm down.
That's what I'm doing.

01:12:49.664 --> 01:12:51.083
This is too scary!

01:12:51.943 --> 01:12:53.040
For some crazy reason,

01:12:53.130 --> 01:12:54.712
I keep taking lefts.

01:12:54.796 --> 01:12:55.410
Oof!

01:12:56.776 --> 01:12:58.031
[they laugh]

01:12:58.967 --> 01:13:01.696
Oh, that was better, right, K?
- That was better.

01:13:01.696 --> 01:13:03.000
- Yes, that was better.

01:13:03.001 --> 01:13:04.260
That was smoother.

01:13:10.309 --> 01:13:11.879
Oh, look at Grandma!

01:13:22.166 --> 01:13:28.154
We are here together now
because Vanjelis earned his PhD

01:13:28.601 --> 01:13:30.780
and we came to join together,

01:13:31.230 --> 01:13:32.430
to celebrate the event.

01:13:35.685 --> 01:13:37.007
Over there...

01:13:37.338 --> 01:13:39.807
My younger brother
wanted me to help

01:13:39.866 --> 01:13:41.767
plan his graduation party.

01:13:44.117 --> 01:13:45.624
Please don't mix them.

01:13:45.624 --> 01:13:48.570
I need those lanterns up,
like, in the next 20 minutes.

01:13:51.840 --> 01:13:52.886
Em, what do you think?

01:13:54.202 --> 01:13:54.905
- It looks right?

01:14:06.270 --> 01:14:08.310
As much as I am very close
with my mom and dad,

01:14:08.311 --> 01:14:11.250
I feel like there's still that
pink elephant in the room?

01:14:11.340 --> 01:14:12.440
That, in the sense, like

01:14:12.464 --> 01:14:15.050
we haven't really talked
about the BeBe thing.

01:14:15.080 --> 01:14:17.600
We don't really have
conversations about it.

01:14:17.840 --> 01:14:18.673
Ma, I don't know how,

01:14:18.736 --> 01:14:20.348
how did you guys -
how did you guys feel

01:14:20.395 --> 01:14:21.993
the first time
when I told you about

01:14:22.041 --> 01:14:23.771
the whole -
being on television

01:14:23.771 --> 01:14:25.790
and doing drag
and stuff like that?

01:14:25.791 --> 01:14:27.320
Like how were -

01:14:28.310 --> 01:14:29.729
- Well, we were not -

01:14:29.729 --> 01:14:32.372
we were not surprised
because we knew that

01:14:33.039 --> 01:14:36.320
from childhood
you loved such things.

01:15:00.990 --> 01:15:02.398
So I'm hoping that,
by God's grace,

01:15:02.398 --> 01:15:04.210
by the time they
go to Cameroon, you know,

01:15:04.240 --> 01:15:07.351
they will get an opportunity
to come to one of my shows

01:15:07.351 --> 01:15:09.573
and get the live
experience of it.

01:15:33.640 --> 01:15:34.937
EMCEE: BeBe Zahara Benet.

01:15:34.937 --> 01:15:36.237
How many of y'all
know who that is?

01:15:37.560 --> 01:15:40.971
She made us feel so wonderful
here in the Twin Cities.

01:15:40.971 --> 01:15:43.553
That was our own BeBe,
look, that's our girl,

01:15:43.553 --> 01:15:45.512
that's our BeBe! Yeah.

01:15:49.336 --> 01:15:50.383
- Let's pray.

01:15:50.831 --> 01:15:52.987
- Yeah we have to pray. Hold on.

01:15:57.370 --> 01:16:00.206
- We're just gonna - no, we're
just gonna pray without her,

01:16:00.206 --> 01:16:01.919
cuz we're running late.

01:16:02.620 --> 01:16:04.029
-Thank you for this moment, God.

01:16:04.075 --> 01:16:06.186
We thank you for
everybody that has worked -

01:16:06.244 --> 01:16:08.469
we just ask you to bless
each and every body

01:16:08.503 --> 01:16:10.149
as they travel back
to their homes.

01:16:10.149 --> 01:16:12.626
And we just thank you God,
for this fellowship.

01:16:12.650 --> 01:16:14.200
Thank you for our sister, God,

01:16:14.290 --> 01:16:15.400
that just came
into the middle

01:16:15.400 --> 01:16:16.510
and she got something to say -

01:16:17.780 --> 01:16:18.790
- Most gracious
and loving father,

01:16:18.791 --> 01:16:21.550
we just bless and give you
all the honor and the glory.

01:16:22.060 --> 01:16:25.842
And through the music and
the drums and the voices, Lord,

01:16:25.870 --> 01:16:28.343
you will be able to touch
each and every one of us

01:16:28.367 --> 01:16:30.709
who has come to support this.

01:16:30.730 --> 01:16:34.421
We just bless you and give you
all the glory. In Jesus' name.

01:16:34.421 --> 01:16:35.644
Amen.

01:16:35.644 --> 01:16:37.451
- Sis you look good,
you are sure dressed, honey!

01:16:37.451 --> 01:16:40.822
Mami I love you -
- Love you. You guys -

01:16:40.822 --> 01:16:42.446
do your thing!

01:16:43.699 --> 01:16:45.404
[♪ upbeat music ♪]

01:16:45.427 --> 01:16:48.932
Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to -

01:16:49.858 --> 01:16:54.933
Two Queens, One Stage:
Tribal Fever!

01:16:58.812 --> 01:17:01.368
Hold on - hold on guys -
hold on, hold on -

01:17:01.368 --> 01:17:03.680
let me have my moment,
thank you.

01:17:04.240 --> 01:17:06.610
I just have to say
today is amazing to me.

01:17:06.610 --> 01:17:08.770
And I'm going to try
not to be so emotional,

01:17:08.771 --> 01:17:10.650
I know we want to try
to get the party going,

01:17:10.890 --> 01:17:12.685
but tonight is the night

01:17:12.685 --> 01:17:16.294
that my mom and my dad
all the way from Cameroon

01:17:16.352 --> 01:17:19.262
are here, and the first time
they've ever seen me perform.

01:17:19.262 --> 01:17:22.196
Up there.
That's my mom over there,

01:17:22.196 --> 01:17:24.595
that's my daddy over there,

01:17:24.595 --> 01:17:26.567
that's my grandma over there,

01:17:26.595 --> 01:17:28.958
and all my sisters
and brothers,

01:17:28.958 --> 01:17:32.504
thank you so much for -
all of you...

01:17:32.981 --> 01:17:34.973
Oh my God...

01:17:37.317 --> 01:17:40.315
[♪ upbeat music ♪]

01:17:42.551 --> 01:17:44.641
Yeah!

01:17:46.321 --> 01:17:47.097
C'mon.

01:17:47.097 --> 01:17:49.285
Everybody put those
hands together.

01:17:49.285 --> 01:17:51.036
Put those hands together.

01:17:51.036 --> 01:17:53.036
Put those hands together!

01:17:53.562 --> 01:17:57.113
♪

01:18:17.630 --> 01:18:19.779
I just really wanted them
to be proud.

01:18:21.297 --> 01:18:22.171
This is my work.

01:18:22.191 --> 01:18:23.510
This is what I do for a living.

01:18:25.310 --> 01:18:27.297
My mom called me on the phone
the following day,

01:18:27.297 --> 01:18:28.456
and she's like, "How are you?
Are you okay?"

01:18:28.456 --> 01:18:29.821
I'm like, "Yes, I'm okay."

01:18:29.821 --> 01:18:32.690
And she said, it was really,
really a great show.

01:18:32.714 --> 01:18:35.450
And she was like, the show
needs to be in a bigger space,

01:18:35.451 --> 01:18:36.800
you know, because it
was just, you know,

01:18:36.801 --> 01:18:38.157
she was already
giving her feedback

01:18:38.157 --> 01:18:39.740
on what she thought
the show was.

01:18:40.100 --> 01:18:42.920
My dad loved it too. My dad
really, really had a great time.

01:18:42.921 --> 01:18:45.080
"It was very artistic,"
is what he would say.

01:18:46.850 --> 01:18:50.720
He did. "It was very
artistic," Dad would say,

01:18:50.721 --> 01:18:52.730
it was very artistic honey.

01:18:56.960 --> 01:18:58.685
If that was what
ended my career,

01:18:58.685 --> 01:19:00.410
I would have been
A-okay with that.

01:19:00.740 --> 01:19:04.940
That was a way for them to,
to get it.

01:19:05.990 --> 01:19:09.583
I would have been devastated
if my dad passed

01:19:09.583 --> 01:19:11.772
without having seen me.

01:19:13.359 --> 01:19:15.628
Ugh, seeing my dad...

01:19:28.537 --> 01:19:30.164
That's a hard one.

01:19:33.290 --> 01:19:35.540
I called him the calm giant,

01:19:35.570 --> 01:19:39.320
because he was just this man who
had this presence about himself,

01:19:39.470 --> 01:19:41.390
but was also just so strong,
you know?

01:19:43.580 --> 01:19:46.627
That he's no longer
here with us, it's -

01:19:47.224 --> 01:19:48.917
that's a hard one.

01:19:55.460 --> 01:19:56.930
Of course,
we went to Cameroon.

01:20:06.110 --> 01:20:07.980
My family wanted
that to be

01:20:07.980 --> 01:20:09.850
my dad's private moment,
you know?

01:20:09.851 --> 01:20:12.941
And I felt so bad because
we've grown so super close -

01:20:12.978 --> 01:20:15.542
I mean, if you'd said you
were going to come,

01:20:15.542 --> 01:20:17.530
just to come there
without the cameras,

01:20:17.830 --> 01:20:19.862
that would have been a
different kind of story, right?

01:20:19.909 --> 01:20:21.344
Because you're,
you're close to us.

01:20:21.430 --> 01:20:22.960
They would've loved
to have seen you,

01:20:23.260 --> 01:20:25.756
but it was such a time for us

01:20:25.756 --> 01:20:27.628
where even talking about
filming or whatever

01:20:27.941 --> 01:20:29.602
would have been
so disrespectful.

01:20:29.602 --> 01:20:32.260
You know, like you
coming in as this,

01:20:32.770 --> 01:20:35.080
you know, Caucasian
woman with your camera,

01:20:35.080 --> 01:20:37.630
and your little people and
you guys are shooting -

01:20:37.870 --> 01:20:40.090
It just pulls
a lot of attention.

01:20:40.090 --> 01:20:42.484
[yelling]

01:20:43.440 --> 01:20:45.403
There's also the
fear of foreigners

01:20:45.403 --> 01:20:47.040
who come and take culture,

01:20:47.520 --> 01:20:50.204
they come and take stories,
they come and take fashion,

01:20:50.204 --> 01:20:51.259
they come and take music

01:20:51.259 --> 01:20:53.370
and then you bring it here,
and then you exploit it.

01:20:53.580 --> 01:20:56.040
I think a lot of Africans
are aware of that now.

01:20:57.630 --> 01:20:59.287
Why are you here?
What is your reason?

01:20:59.310 --> 01:21:01.109
What are you going
to do with this?

01:21:05.820 --> 01:21:08.250
The last time
I went to Cameroon

01:21:08.250 --> 01:21:10.680
was the time
I left Cameroon.

01:21:10.681 --> 01:21:12.600
I mean, there was anxiety.
I had anxiety.

01:21:13.110 --> 01:21:16.770
I don't even know
how I would be received or,

01:21:16.890 --> 01:21:19.260
how would people
react to me, you know?

01:21:22.620 --> 01:21:25.710
I think it was important
just for you, even without me,

01:21:25.711 --> 01:21:30.330
to just go and be
part of that energy.

01:21:35.950 --> 01:21:36.979
Goodbye!

01:21:41.010 --> 01:21:42.360
Whoa!

01:21:49.495 --> 01:21:51.072
Ahhh!

01:21:57.798 --> 01:21:59.584
[silence, somber score]

01:22:51.542 --> 01:22:53.057
[sounds from computer]

01:22:59.434 --> 01:23:01.409
- How are you my loves?

01:23:03.210 --> 01:23:06.060
- Can you guys hear me?
I keep hearing another noise.

01:23:08.000 --> 01:23:08.833
Is somebody back there?

01:23:09.919 --> 01:23:11.194
Was somebody cooking -

01:23:12.459 --> 01:23:13.822
-Somebody was cooking something.

01:23:13.846 --> 01:23:16.124
I heard the -
were they pounding?

01:23:16.124 --> 01:23:17.660
What are they making,
fufu?

01:23:18.171 --> 01:23:19.171
What are they making?

01:23:23.420 --> 01:23:24.590
- Oh, and eru?

01:23:28.040 --> 01:23:30.483
- Um, you know - I cook,
I cook very good eru.

01:23:32.070 --> 01:23:32.810
- Oh yes, in America.

01:23:32.840 --> 01:23:37.884
Oh, I cook all of that stuff.
Eru, okra, fufu, Ogbono soup...

01:23:38.617 --> 01:23:40.268
Look at you!

01:23:40.341 --> 01:23:42.455
But listen,
what I would like to say, like -

01:23:42.455 --> 01:23:45.786
you guys are such,
you are such an inspiration,

01:23:45.839 --> 01:23:48.626
because of the simple fact
that you are living your truth.

01:24:25.060 --> 01:24:26.641
-You're such in the right space.

01:24:26.641 --> 01:24:28.486
And you know, with family
or without family,

01:24:28.657 --> 01:24:30.393
you know that
you have to keep doing

01:24:30.405 --> 01:24:31.549
what you're doing right now

01:24:31.573 --> 01:24:33.407
so that you can
better your life.

01:24:33.430 --> 01:24:35.189
And better your situation.

01:24:35.260 --> 01:24:36.726
You know what I'm saying?

01:24:48.310 --> 01:24:51.949
RUPAUL: Welcome our queen,
BeBe Zahara Benet.

01:25:01.526 --> 01:25:03.827
[♪ "Cameroon/Dirty Drums"
by BeBe Zahara Benet ♪]

01:25:10.689 --> 01:25:14.764
♪ Rrrrr-ra-ka-ta-ti-ti-ta-ta,
yeah I'm pussy bitch. ♪

01:25:16.570 --> 01:25:17.525
What did she say?

01:25:17.525 --> 01:25:21.253
♪ Rrrrr-ra-ta-ta-ti-ti-ta-ta,
yeah I'm pussy bitch. ♪

01:25:21.253 --> 01:25:25.120
♪ Oo la la la la la la
c'est bon, c'est bon... ♪

01:25:25.120 --> 01:25:27.686
Being on All-Stars 3
was a great resurgence

01:25:27.686 --> 01:25:30.759
when it came to my, uh,
to my platform or whatever.

01:25:30.779 --> 01:25:32.800
Of course the bookings,
you know,

01:25:32.801 --> 01:25:35.230
being able to travel,
and work.

01:25:35.230 --> 01:25:37.750
- You still look the same
from Season One. You do.

01:25:37.750 --> 01:25:40.380
- Especially from the back row,
right?  - Yeah.

01:25:40.380 --> 01:25:42.266
No that's not shade!

01:25:43.570 --> 01:25:45.490
Even with the recognition
that was given,

01:25:45.880 --> 01:25:48.430
it did not stop what
the hustle had to be.

01:25:49.000 --> 01:25:51.100
You have to keep working.

01:25:54.160 --> 01:25:56.350
Today,
she is the only queen!

01:25:58.180 --> 01:25:59.013
Do you like?

01:25:59.440 --> 01:26:00.580
I love it.

01:26:00.640 --> 01:26:03.760
Isn't these unique features that
we have what makes us special,

01:26:04.740 --> 01:26:07.623
because we are not all created
the same?

01:26:07.623 --> 01:26:09.120
- But it's like so hard.

01:26:09.150 --> 01:26:11.223
What I loved so much
about Dragnificent

01:26:11.223 --> 01:26:13.890
is the whole idea
of being in a show

01:26:14.070 --> 01:26:16.990
where you are helping people

01:26:17.119 --> 01:26:19.713
and you're moving people
forward in their lives

01:26:19.785 --> 01:26:22.680
and creating a situation where
you're bringing them some light.

01:26:23.550 --> 01:26:24.923
To me that is rewarding,

01:26:24.923 --> 01:26:27.120
because if it's not,
then what is it?

01:26:27.150 --> 01:26:29.736
Is it just making money
and just being famous?

01:26:29.759 --> 01:26:30.875
At the end of the day,

01:26:30.901 --> 01:26:32.790
what does - oof - okay?

01:26:36.380 --> 01:26:38.930
I want to sit and feel like
I've done something.

01:26:38.990 --> 01:26:40.679
I want to feel
when I go to bed,

01:26:40.679 --> 01:26:42.620
I am moving something
forward, you know?

01:26:52.550 --> 01:26:57.380
I remember being
in my apartment and then

01:26:57.440 --> 01:27:00.170
one of my friends called me
and was like, "Hey, have you,

01:27:00.260 --> 01:27:03.908
did you hear somebody got,
you know, killed, murdered,

01:27:03.908 --> 01:27:05.310
in Minneapolis?"
I was like, "What?

01:27:05.310 --> 01:27:07.525
You know, turn on the news,
turn on the news."

01:27:11.450 --> 01:27:13.484
I just had to
shut everything off

01:27:13.484 --> 01:27:17.025
and just take a moment
because I felt so cold.

01:27:20.630 --> 01:27:24.260
I felt disgusted. Like, I mean,
this is a place that I claim,

01:27:24.261 --> 01:27:25.100
you know what I mean?

01:27:40.130 --> 01:27:41.660
There are different forms
of racism, right?

01:27:42.260 --> 01:27:45.296
And I feel like I can only
speak on my industry.

01:27:45.436 --> 01:27:48.386
You know, where it's like,
I am too African.

01:27:48.524 --> 01:27:52.865
The masses will not understand.
I'm too worldly, right?

01:27:52.865 --> 01:27:55.760
I'm not the Pop Princess,
or the this, or the that,

01:27:55.761 --> 01:27:57.500
of what everybody's
accustomed to.

01:27:57.581 --> 01:28:00.483
Even though she won Drag Race
and she's this and she's that

01:28:00.530 --> 01:28:01.493
and I love her -

01:28:01.522 --> 01:28:03.493
But guess what? She might not
be able to sell tickets.

01:28:03.980 --> 01:28:05.840
Why might she not
be able to sell tickets?

01:28:06.290 --> 01:28:09.077
Because she presents herself
in the global way,

01:28:09.077 --> 01:28:10.875
and people would not get it?

01:28:10.880 --> 01:28:13.310
Maybe not.
Let's go with what's safe.

01:28:13.310 --> 01:28:15.620
Okay well if you're not
going to give that to me,

01:28:15.620 --> 01:28:17.090
then I'm going to
keep creating it.

01:28:20.251 --> 01:28:23.377
Creating that situation
and being able to get

01:28:23.424 --> 01:28:25.700
the other artists of color
and saying that -

01:28:25.701 --> 01:28:28.490
let's put our money,
let's put our resources,

01:28:28.670 --> 01:28:30.241
let's put our
connections together

01:28:30.241 --> 01:28:31.813
and let us
create something where

01:28:31.813 --> 01:28:34.640
we are all producers
of this project.

01:28:36.469 --> 01:28:39.308
Nubia was - like that showcase
we did in New York -

01:28:39.331 --> 01:28:41.706
having three sold-out shows -

01:28:44.660 --> 01:28:49.141
Every kind of person
was in that space.

01:28:49.141 --> 01:28:51.620
Black, white, straight, gay...

01:28:55.920 --> 01:28:59.180
Just goes to say that yes,
black entertainment does sell,

01:28:59.181 --> 01:29:00.380
black entertainment makes money,

01:29:00.381 --> 01:29:04.150
and black entertainment
is also very entertaining.

01:29:09.543 --> 01:29:11.408
May I present to you,

01:29:11.408 --> 01:29:13.110
Black Excellence.

01:29:21.640 --> 01:29:23.837
And to every single one of you,

01:29:23.837 --> 01:29:27.292
do not let anybody
take your gifts away.

01:29:31.560 --> 01:29:33.840
I don't know what
the future of my career is.

01:29:33.930 --> 01:29:37.098
I still feel like there's
still a lot left to do.

01:29:37.098 --> 01:29:39.172
It's not about the fame,

01:29:39.172 --> 01:29:42.240
and you know, oh, I'm a star,
I'm a this, I mean,

01:29:43.290 --> 01:29:44.123
I am...

01:29:52.222 --> 01:29:54.150
I'm not the makeup artist,
I'm only the manager...

01:29:54.150 --> 01:29:56.041
- How do I look?
- You're beautiful.

01:29:56.041 --> 01:29:57.980
Rewind, rewind, rewind...

01:29:58.470 --> 01:30:00.437
Lights, camera, 1-2-3...

01:30:07.991 --> 01:30:10.718
My name is
Nea Marshall Kudi,

01:30:10.741 --> 01:30:13.410
and my business name is
BeBe Zahara Benet.

01:30:15.180 --> 01:30:17.950
I was born in West Africa,
precisely Cameroon.

01:30:25.380 --> 01:30:29.700
My story of my life and
experiences, my journey,

01:30:29.700 --> 01:30:34.671
is one that anyone with a drive
and a strong will needs to hear.

01:30:35.861 --> 01:30:38.842
I traveled many many miles

01:30:39.220 --> 01:30:42.450
away from my family and
friends to pursue a dream,

01:30:42.450 --> 01:30:45.375
and I will not stop until I have
reached the end of my journey.

01:30:48.301 --> 01:30:53.480
[♪ "Banjo"/"Jungle Kitty" by
Bebe Zahara Benet ♪]

01:31:42.375 --> 01:31:44.125
♪

01:32:44.041 --> 01:32:46.125
♪

01:32:59.800 --> 01:33:02.620
I didn't know how much naked
I was in the documentary.

01:33:05.680 --> 01:33:09.820
I'm very conservative, like
- and then I'm like dang,

01:33:09.820 --> 01:33:13.210
she was naked quite a bit,
like what's going on?