Ethan Mundt on Being the First ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Queen to Compete (and Nearly Win) ‘Project Runway’: “I Came in and Really Gagged Them a Bit”

For RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Utica Queen, Project Runway was always in the cards.

Fans of the RuPaul-hosted reality series know the talent Utica, aka Ethan Mundt, possesses with a sewing machine. His sleeping bag gown created during season 13’s Bag Ball shook the show’s audience in 2021, and is remembered as one of the best design looks created on the set of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

It was only a matter of time before Mundt would hop over the pond, so to speak, and appear on the design competition show. “Project Runway has been on my radar for a while,” Mundt tells The Hollywood Reporter, acknowledging the landmark decision to cast a well-known personality from outside of the franchise.

“This is the first opportunity that a queen from RuPaul’s Drag Race gets to go and showcase the work, to actually showcase what a queen can do,” he adds. “Of course,…

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