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Leslie Jordan on how winning Emmy didn’t propel his career & when he called Boy George a drag queen

Okay, this photo of Leslie Jordan has got to be more than 10 years old but I don’t think he looks so different so I’m going with it.

This delicious talent is currently starring in the film version of Southern Baptist Sissies and appeared in the most recent season of American Horror Story.

Michael Musto recently had a chat with Leslie for his Out.com column which has quickly become a must-read.

Here are some excerpts:

On winning the Emmy for his recurring role on Will & Grace: “I won that Emmy in 2006 and thought I’d sit back and big things would happen. But nothing! Career went in the shitter. But then I had to recreate. Madonna taught us all to recreate ourselves. I had a friend who runs this huge marketing firm in Palm Springs. I called him and said, “Bitch, market me. I’m so popular with the gay community. Trot me out for parades, anything that will get me a job.” The television stuff is now what I do on the side. [As a result of the personal appearances,] I bought my mother and twin sisters condos.”

When you won that Emmy [for playing Karen’s Republican rival, Beverley Leslie], was it on the actual telecast? “It was the Outstanding Guest Actor, and that is presented at the Creative Arts Emmys, which did air [only] on Bravo. NBC sent a limo. I flew my mother out in a $500 dress, we get to the red carpet, and the only person there is Kathy Griffin. I said, “Where are all the celebrities?” I was told, “This isn’t the Emmys.” It’s 75 of the most boring awards—the technical stuff. I won Guest Actor and Cloris Leachman won Guest Actress. They thought we were adorable together and asked us to present Best Comedy Writing on the Emmys.”

You filmed a sake commercial in the Mojave desert with Boy George and a Japanese crew, though that turned out rather sour, right? “Back in the day, when we were on the pills and the sauce, we could get a little catty. George was awful to me. He played that joke on me where I asked, “How do you say, ‘One more take’ in Japanese?” He taught me, and I start yelling it, and I’m actually saying, “Do you have a big dick?” Everyone was horrified. One day, he went off to Vegas. I’m sitting in the desert heat with all that makeup on and we waited and waited. He finally came back. He said, “We saw a show called Boylesque. It was fabulous.” I said, “Am I listening to the most famous drag queen in the world say that he went to his first drag show?” The whole room went silent. He said, “I’m not a drag queen, and I’m not a female impersonator, and I doubt your little pea brain could understand what I am.” I wanted to say, “Don’t you fuck with me, drag queen!”

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