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Drag race down under untucked12/2/2023 ![]() MC: You mentioned learning a great deal what do you think is one lesson that you leaned that you think that you can take into the next phase of your career?Ī: Accepting my flaws I thought before that I did. I wish I was more relaxed, but it was a very awesome experience of course. I think that really dragged into the filming of the show. My wigs did not arrive until a few hours before I actually had to leave for the airport, so I didn’t have a time for myself to mentally prepare myself before I went there. I cried almost every day before I flew to LA just because things were not going right. It was one of the hardest things that I have ever prepped for, the preparation for the show is so difficult.Ī post shared by Aura Mayari □ was also healing from an injury and I had to travel and find designers that would help me out. I feel like it comes with a lot of the preparation for the show. relax! (Laughs)! I think that I was in my head a lot. Being on the show, one thing that I wish I would have done differently. It was a dream come true, I was on top of the world. It has been a roller coaster ride of course, but I have learned a lot about myself during this time, while taping as well as getting onto the show. MC: How do you look back on your entire Drag Race experience as you reflect back on it?Ī: I am very, very thankful for this experience. There is a whole process also, quitting drag at one point, moving to Nashville, quitting my nine to five job and then four months later, auditioning for Drag Race and getting on. In Chicago, I was working a nine to five job and then doing my gigs at night, and here I am now. ![]() ![]() I decided to create my own character because I thought it was something that I could do outside of a musical and still be able to do my nine to five job. I had to do a lot of research for the role, went to a lot of drag shows, watched a lot of documentaries and started getting into the art form that is drag. I did Rent and played Angel Dumott Schunard. I was always craving it and missed being on stage. After graduating college, I started working in an office doing sales and marketing and I lost my medium to express myself artistically. ![]() A post shared by Aura Mayari □ Cook: When did Aura Mayari make her arrival in the world of drag?Īura Mayari: I did a lot of musical theater before, during and before collage in high school. ![]()
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