Yahoo Lifestyle “Drag Race” star Suzie Toot promises she's the 'most fashionable queen on season 17' and her sisters hilariously disagree
The theater queen explains her references to EW, from Debbie Reynolds to Eleanor Powell: "I really enjoy being a sore thumb. I like to stick out and do things that are unexpected."
In the club, RuPaul’s Drag Race season 17 star Suzie Toot’s peers are definitely not all fam.
“I’m quite used to drag queens not understanding me or getting where I’m coming from. In the club, the last person to get me is the other drag queens in the dressing room,” the tap-dancing queen — and working actress — tells Entertainment Weekly of trying to navigate the choppy waters of sunny Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., when she’s not a four-on-the-floor diva, but rather the kind of Broadway-bound gal that, say, still arrives for her first interview with a major media outlet while dressed as Hugh Hefner.
Yes, late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.
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Suzie TootIn what even she clearly thinks is a half-serious joke, Suzie tells EW that she is undisputedly "the most fashionable queen on season 17," but when we asked each of her sisters for a response, most of them playfully disagreed — others laughed. Either way, her runway presence will be quite the spectacle this year.
And, even if you don’t get her or her old-school references right away, “Professor Toot” — which, as she says the girls of season 17 affectionately called her throughout their time on the show— is going to make sure you learn her name and what fuels her off-kilter aura.
“I really enjoy being a sore thumb. I like to stick out and do things that are unexpected. A lot of times my reference is the wackiest thing you can possibly come up with,” Suzie says, bringing up more familiar pop culture fixtures Singin’ in the Rain and its star Debbie Reynolds as guiding lights, then dropping in a less accessible (at least to most Gen Z-types watching Drag Race) touchstone like old-Hollywood dancer Eleanor Powell.
She’s also a trained theater girl, but she’s “not weaponizing my BFA because I dropped out,” she says. But, for good reason: “Because I was getting booked,” Suzie reveals with a glint in her eye.
Still, “being a working actor is an act of embarrassment, constant embarrassment,” she stresses. Yet, her love for the craft is undying, as evidenced by her lifelong commitment to the stage and screen.
“I started acting at a summer camp in the Poconos. A Jewish summer camp. The first show was Fiddler on the Roof. I was 8 years old. I was obsessed with it. I loved the stage, the storytelling, the audience, everything about it,” she recalls, adding that she discovered tap as a sophomore in high school.
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Suzie was innately good at it (obviously), though the art form filled a different void for the natural-born performer. “I thought it was fun and gay,” she admits.
That sounds like the perfect descriptor for her (presumably tootin’) time on season 17 ahead.
RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 airs Fridays at 8 p.m. on MTV. Watch EW's full interview with Suzie at the top of this post.
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