There’s so many ways people celebrate Pride. Some don their gay apparel and march in their bustling downtown. Some enjoy a late night hopping from gay clubs and drag shows way too late into the night. While others prefer to support queer media in a nice, cool and deliciously refreshing theater. If you’re the latter, good news! You can show your support by buying a ticket for Stop! That! Train! currently running in theaters. is in theaters June 12th.
It is so delightfully dumb. Even director Adam Shankman agreed, telling Parade, “That’s all it was ever supposed to be. You know, North Star was stupid on this one.”
The film follows two best friends who want to see the world, and maybe a sexier job. After the company they work for goes under (perhaps an ominous foreshadowing to Spirit Airlines) they get their opportunity, but disaster is about to strike. The cast stars wide range of Drag Race icons like Jujubee, Ginger Minj, Brooke Lynn Hytes, Symone, Marcia Marcia Marcia and, of course, “mother” herself, RuPaul. And the queens are flanked by a stacked guest-star lineup, including Nicole Richie, Lisa Rinna, Matt Rogers and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
While the cast is stack with Drag Race favorites, Shankman wanted to clarify it’s not specifically a “Drag Race movie” though it certainly is one for the fans of the Emmy-winning reality series. “There’s some references in there, and there are Easter eggs,” he says, “That’s not what the movie’s about.”
Though that’s all Marcia Marcia Marcia thought about when she was was overwhelmed at RuPaul walking onto set for their scene. “[I was nervous] seeing her up close like that,” the two-time competitor reveals. “Because, on Drag Race, you see her far away. Y’all watching get to see her stand. But we never get to see her stand up in person and be fully tall. The whole first take, I couldn’t stop smiling. ‘Oh my God, she’s right there.’ Just so tall.”
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Ginger and Jujubee, meanwhile, relished the chance to portray their real-life friendship on screen. They lived together while filming, which is par the course for them between their many projects together and with how much they just enjoy hanging out together. Jujubee, like her character, tends to save the day when they are together. As Ginger explains ,“Every time we go out to eat you save my life. Because I’m allergic to everything. Well, particularly seafood. But I also really love Korean barbecue. That’s a thing that we do together every day.”
Even though they are spending so much time together, they still have time for a little friendly competition, according to Ginger. “We’re in this little friendly competition. In my mind we are. It’s not very friendly because she’ll send a picture of the work she’s had done. And then I’ll take it to my doctor and I’ll be like, ‘Match this.’ And then I’ll do it and then three days later, she’ll send me another selfie of it. And I’m like, ‘Oh no, I have to go back.’”
Like any good movie, Stop! That! Train had plenty of content that had to get the chop. According to Shankman, a few scenes cut due to VFX funding running out. “There was a whole running gag about literally a guy running behind the train, Daniel Franzese, trying to catch up with it,” he explains. “But we couldn’t afford all of the CGI of being able to build the world around him, because he was going to have to be running through the storm. He was going to have to be running through tunnels and other debris. We just shot it on a green screen, but to build everything around it was not possible with our limited funds.”
Regardless, whether it be Shankman, the intrepid team behind the scenes, the queens, or Ginger Minj’s doctor, it’s clear plenty of work has been done. And the result should hopefully be a runaway success for the runaway train film.
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