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The story behind Eva Le Queen's rice cooking skit on 'Drag Race: Global All Stars'

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Josiah Eleazar Antonio

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<div style="text-align:left"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1724065097633Eva Le Queen 08192024.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Eva Le Queen. Screenshot from WOW Presents Plus."/><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Eva Le Queen. Screenshot from WOW Presents Plus. </div>MANILA — Coming from a gag-worthy win with the &quot;AMAFILIPINA&quot; dance performance of Marina Summers for the talent show, Eva Le Queen felt the pressure to follow the footsteps of her &quot;Drag Race Philippines&quot; season 1 sister.Eva is a contestant of &quot;RuPaul&#x27;s Drag Race: Global All Stars&quot; and what a way to know them is through a talent show.With her past performances, content creator Baus Rufo suggested to Eva to stick to her core, comedy.&quot;I was with my good friend Baus Rufo and we were thinking na &#x27;hala ano&#x27;ng gagawin ko?&#x27; how can I top &#x27;AMAFILIPINA,&#x27; tih. I could never, for the life of me, in a short span of amount of time of preparation, hindi ako makakagalaw or makakakanta as good as Marina Summers,&quot; Eva told reporters in a press conference.&quot;We were like looking through my past performances and Baus said: &#x27;You know what, you should do something that&#x27;s already within your  Rolodex of performances,&#x27; something that you&#x27;ve done before, something that you know is you,&quot; she added. Eva recalled that her rice cooking skit started with a number to a Chinese song performed by KZ Tandingan.&quot;I learned that Chinese song without really understanding kung ano&#x27;ng ibig sabihin niya. Since you don&#x27;t what&#x27;s it about, you can do anything with it,&quot; the drag queen said. &quot;It&#x27;s an original concept that I already had, I had been doing. I&#x27;ve been lipsyncing to a Chinese song na nagluluto ako ng adobo at nagsasaing ako ng rice. That was also my audition tape to &#x27;Drag Race Philippines&#x27; season 1, the rice cooking tape was my audition tape sa kanila. We developed it, sabi ko, let&#x27;s try to write something about it,&quot; she added.The sword fight part came when they wanted to do something out of the blue and crazy, and one thing led to another.&quot;We were just brainstorming ideas like we always do. Nakakatawa lang na parang magandang catch &#x27;yun eh &#x27;yung hindi pala nakasaksak &#x27;yung rice cooker but what happens in between, parang gusto kong pumatay ng dragon or something. OMG that&#x27;s it, then, we started sword fight,&quot; she said.Eva credited people from the &quot;Drag Race Philippines&quot; family for helping her out with the &quot;<span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">chopsuey&quot; of crazy ideas.&quot;When we were brainstorming, ang ingay namin sa cafe. We reached out to some of the best talents that we have at &#x27;Drag Race Philippines.&#x27; Baus and I wrote the lyrics,&quot; Eva said. &quot;The music was written by the person who also did the &#x27;Rusicals&#x27; for &#x27;Drag Race Philippines&#x27; which is Ejay Yatco, the sound, &#x27;yung mga &#x27;t*****a, t*****a&#x27; that was &#x27;Pop Off Ate&#x27; herself, Paula Paguio. Ano lang talaga siya, chopsuey siya ng mga crazy ideas,&quot; she added.Her goal to show her crazy side earned her a Top 2 spot in the premiere episode with Vanity Vain of Sweden.<div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/2024/8/16/eva-le-queen-starts-strong-as-top-2-queen-of-rupaul-s-drag-race-global-all-stars-prchopseuyemiere-1600">Eva Le Queen starts strong as Top 2 queen of &#x27;RuPaul&#x27;s Drag Race: Global All Stars&#x27; premiere</a></div>&quot;That&#x27;s what I wanted to do because people always see me as the Madam, very controlled. From that moment, I want them to see the crazy side of Eva and I think that shot was worth it,&quot; she said.It was also a surreal moment for Eva for RuPaul to say how fantastic her performance on the episode.&quot;In retrospect, naisip ko ngayon, all roads led me to that very moment. I couldn&#x27;t even care less kung saan ako makarating eh at that moment. It&#x27;s just that ito &#x27;yun. 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