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Speaker 1: You can catch Queen of the Universe season two streaming

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Speaker 1: exclusively on Paramount Plus from tomorrow. The show is produced

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Speaker 1: by Rue Paul, toasted by Graham Norton, and there are

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Speaker 1: some huge names on the judging planel, including RuPaul's drag

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Speaker 1: race icon, Trixie Mattel, who I last saw renovating a motel,

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Speaker 1: Melby and Michelle Versage.

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Speaker 2: Chefs you do.

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Speaker 1: Trevor Ashley is flying the Australian flag in the competition

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Speaker 1: and he's with us now. Good morning, Trevor.

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Speaker 2: Trevor, Hello, good morning.

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Speaker 3: How are you good? So?

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Speaker 1: Season two ten bitchy drag queens and a competition to

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Speaker 1: be the best.

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Speaker 2: What could possibly go wrong?

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Speaker 3: Least on this show. We are all live singers, and

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Speaker 3: I think that's the exciting part about the show is

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Speaker 3: that we are all real singing drag queens. Yeahzzy, That's

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Speaker 3: what I think makes the show even better.

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Speaker 4: Than None of us pretend stuff, None of that pretend.

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Speaker 3: None of that lips in for your life. We're just

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Speaker 3: seeing for our lives.

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Speaker 2: Do you think that's the That's the future of drag

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Speaker 2: singing live?

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Speaker 3: For me, I've been doing it for twenty years, so

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Speaker 3: I've always been singing live, but I was one of

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Speaker 3: the very few in Sydney who are singing drag queen,

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Speaker 3: So I think, you know, for me, certainly, I love

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Speaker 3: the fact that we're all real vocalists and thats for

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Speaker 3: a really exceptional competition.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, is it difficult.

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Speaker 4: It must be getting a little bit hard now to

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Speaker 4: come up with an original drag name these days. I

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Speaker 4: mean a lot of taken. Have all the good ones

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Speaker 4: already been taken? Or do you think there's still some

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Speaker 4: out there to be mined rather than mine?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Look, I still think there are a few that

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Speaker 3: you know, I haven't been used to their full potential.

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Speaker 3: But I certainly I use my own real name rather

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Speaker 3: than well.

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Speaker 2: That's novel you do, and that is unique.

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Speaker 3: It is unique. And because my original drag name is

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Speaker 3: Jinger Vitis and I thought that's great, I happened I

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Speaker 3: was sold that wasn't classic enough, so I went with

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Speaker 3: my real name.

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Speaker 1: I actually love it as well as you know, singing

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Speaker 1: live that's a bit different. We've recently seen drag queen

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Speaker 1: Jinx monsoon score a major role as a villain in

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Speaker 1: the new series.

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Speaker 2: Of Doctor Who Are you finding?

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Speaker 1: There are more TV and movie roles for drag Queens

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Speaker 1: popping up.

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Speaker 3: I think there's a lot more opportunities, and I think

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Speaker 3: as moved certainly more into the main stream and that

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Speaker 3: it is a TV scene nowhere where I would never

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Speaker 3: have imagined when I started my career that we would

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Speaker 3: even be on a major streaming platform across the world,

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Speaker 3: on major shows like Drag Race and Queen of the Universe.

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Speaker 3: So I think that for me, it's definitely it's changed,

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Speaker 3: and I think that the perception of what we do

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Speaker 3: and the skill that we actually have has changed, because

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Speaker 3: I think that we're extremely skilled people because we're our

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Speaker 3: own a Cabata's hair styled, costume designers as well as performers.

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Speaker 3: So I think that for me it's exciting to be

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Speaker 3: showcased in a different way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, take that backward American States trying to outlaw right,

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Speaker 1: we'll fight you to the last seq when.

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Speaker 2: Will we not?

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Speaker 3: We will? And I promise, I mean, I'm thrilled that

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Speaker 3: none of that's really happening here. But you know, yes,

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Speaker 3: it is scary because you think, wow, is that how

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Speaker 3: are we going backwards that far?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, Trevor.

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Speaker 1: Of course, there is so much more to you than

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Speaker 1: just this show. I don't know, people might recall the

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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen season of Le Miz and Trevor was the

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Speaker 1: greatest Monseigneur Thenardier to ever have sung Master of the

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Speaker 1: house Keeper of Zoo. What is there anything coming up

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Speaker 1: soon for you in the musical theaters?

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Speaker 3: Don't look, I just finished Joseph an amazing technical dream code. Yes,

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Speaker 3: but I'm hoping that there's more to come. You know,

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Speaker 3: It's always hard because it depends on what shows are

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Speaker 3: coming up. But look, I've certainly I'd love to get

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Speaker 3: back and do another musical. I love doing musical theater

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Speaker 3: and I think I've been really lucky in my career

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Speaker 3: that I've had such a breadth of work from you know,

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Speaker 3: from TV to that. So I just feel really lucky

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Speaker 3: that I get to do that from my life.

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Speaker 2: This keeps you in the spotlight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so absolutely, And look, the show is really honestly fantastic,

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Speaker 3: And it was just incredible to work with an icon

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Speaker 3: like Graham Norton and Vanessa Williams, Michelle Visa, Trixy, Mattel

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Speaker 3: Melby honoring Australia as LB. It was so fabulous to

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Speaker 3: get to work with all of those icons, and also

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Speaker 3: with the other contestants because it's almost like the Eurovision

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Speaker 3: of Drag show, so you get to actually see all

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Speaker 3: of the competitors from around the world and it was

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Speaker 3: great to make new friends. We're on a group chat

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Speaker 3: on whatsapped together, so yeah, you know we've stayed in

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Speaker 3: part and we're all great mates.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're very modest, a little bit of luck and

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Speaker 1: a truck full of talent, Trevor. I can't wait to

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Speaker 1: see you on Queen of the Universe season two.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for chatting with us this morning.

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Speaker 3: You Lisa, thanks Russell, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Trevor. Absolutely