Drag Race star Le Fil on Canada exit: ‘I was not the worst!’
From his premiere slayage to the lip-sync showdown with Tynomi Banks, Le Fil reflects on his Canada’s Drag Race vs the World experience.
SPECIAL THANKS TO JO SEAR AT THE BBC
Although Le Fil smashed the Canada’s Drag Race vs the World premiere, earning swathes of support online for his Le Fil-osophical “gender-fucking” lyrics on ‘This Beat’, he failed to maintain momentum. In episode two, Le Fil played ‘The Girl Looking for Love’ in the Traitors-inspired reality series The Hole, a character he resonated with due to his own difficulties dating as an androgynous person.
Following mixed critiques for his improv and ‘Mother Nature’ runway, the Brighouse performer faced the lip-sync smackdown with Tynomi Banks to the beat of Ida Corr and Fedde le Grande’s electro-house classic ‘Let Me Think About It’, a song that the latter queen has allegedly performed “for the last 10 years”. “I was like, ‘Okay… I’m going to be stepping into her usual routine here!’” Le Fil tells GAY TIMES. “When we were getting ready she was like, ‘If anyone has to lip-sync against me to that song they’re going home.’”
We caught up with Le Fil to discuss his Canada’s Drag Race vs the World experience, how his performance in The Hole (ahem…) was “by no means the worst” and his upcoming music, which is set to feature Cathy Dennis, the genius pop songwriter and producer behind hits such as ‘Toxic’, ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’ and ‘I Kissed a Girl’.
Le Fil, my androgynous, gender-bending-fucking icon, how are you babe?
Hello! I’m good, thank you so much. It’s a pleasure to see you, Sam.
I’m getting deja vu? You look gorgeous, by the way. Is this outfit the iconic…
This is the one! This is the jacket that is made from the fabric of my DragCon booth that all fans signed. I’m wearing it because there’s so many comments on here like, ‘I want to see you on the TV again!’, ‘I want to see you on All Stars‘, ‘I want to see you on vs [the World]’ At the time I was like, ‘I’m never gonna do it.’ Then the call came and I’d heard great things [about competing on Canada’s Drag Race], all this fabulousness. So I thought, ‘For these people who have written all this stuff on here, I’m gonna do it for them.’
