She described the stress of trying to pull everything together in time saying there is a lot to consider when creating the looks like: will someone else come up with this idea? Which designers are available in this time frame? And are those designers already working with other girls on this season? However, Jan did say that during the quarantine before filming All Stars 6, she could hear some of the girls through the walls of the hotel, like Yara Sophia who was “cackling and doing her own thing.” Jan also revealed that she knew which other New York girls would be there prior to filming (like Brita Filter in Season 12) presumably because the girls talk. Jan did let slip, however, that the vibe was a little different during her All Stars season, and the girls took these terms more as suggestions rather than hard rules. We did learn that the rules were a little different on All Stars, where everyone had a pool buddy they could go chill with for half an hour at a time. Jan described talking to the story producers as a relief. “It’s nice to talk to your sisters who are there in the room with you,” she said, “but it’s also really good to talk to the story producers because you can talk to them as candidly as you want and it’s kind of therapeutic.” It was also revealed that there’s a choreographer on set who helps and gives notes on what the girls come up with, and they’re given a few days in between filming the beginning of an episode and the final performance to really work on the choreo. Turns out the queens have very little control over the final product and are not involved with the editing process at all. In fact, at the time of filming, the girls only get to see a rough cut of their videos. Not only are they much longer than what we see on TV, but they also don’t have the green screens filled in or the music added in, so the queens see the finished product at the same time the audience does. Though Jan did say one of her fave un-aired memories was a time when Ru didn’t have the earpiece in and just talked to the queens for over an hour about their favorite artists and what inspires them in their drag. I would LOVE to get my eyes on this.
