It’s a ‘stormaganza’ as ‘Stop! That! Train!’ hits theaters

LOS ANGELES — Choo-choo! Hold on to your wigs because “Stop! That! Train!” hits theaters this weekend.

The film follows Tess (Ginger Minj) and DeeDee (Jujubee), best friends and train stewardesses who trade their dreary shifts on the Stank Rail for the glitzy Glamazonian Express. The duo joins forces with the snobby first-class attendants (Symone, Brooke Lynn Hytes, Marcia Marcia Marcia) as a “Stormaganza” threatens to derail the high-speed train and crash it into Florida.

“Stop! That! Train!” is one of the first wide-release feature films entirely fronted by drag queens, but film director Adam Shankman said the joke is not that they are drag queens; he wanted the joke to be the movie.

After all, a drag queen is an actor.

Symone told Spectrum News that the entire cast was excited to be part of the film and were not really thinking about the pressure surrounding “Stop! That! Train!” — the first major feature film to come out of the “Drag Race” universe.

“You can’t think about things like that,” Brooke Lynn Hytes said. “You just need to go in, do the work, say ‘yes and’… and keep pushing it forward. Just let all the noise fly off… water off a duck’s back.”

Marcia told Spectrum News that the crew was supportive and excited to work on the project.

“There was never any doubt. You can’t have doubt going into something like this,” she said.

“Stop! That! Train!” comes out during Pride Month, and the cast shared with Spectrum News what it means for them this year.

“I think it is more important now than it has been in a very long time,” said Ginger Minj. “People think of Pride as a celebration and a parade, and that’s wonderful, but it’s really a reminder of where we’ve come from and how far we still have to go.”  

“Pride, of course, is a celebration, but it started as a protest,” said Jujubee. “And ‘Stop! That! Train!’ is a declaration that people like us and our art is here to stay. For the kids out there that can see us on the big screen… it gives them hope, and that’s what we are here to do. We want you to laugh, and we want you to have hope because we are going to be okay.”

“Stop! That! Train!” also features many surprise cameos.

To find out who the cast’s favorites were, click the video above to watch the full interview.