Interview With “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Makeup Team Raven & Natasha Marcelina

The Next Best Picture Podcast

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4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Since it premiered in 2009, "RuPaul's Drag Race" has steadily grown to become one of the most popular reality competition shows on television. It has won a total of 29 Primetime Emmys and spawned multiple spin-offs, including the ever-popular "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars," which just completed its 10th season, and numerous international competitions. For its 17th season, "RuPaul's Drag Race" recently earned eight Emmy nominations, including for Outstanding Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program. Previous Emmy winners Natasha Marcelina and former contestant Raven are two of the show's nominees in this category, and they were kind enough to chat with us about their most recent nominations, how the show changed their lives, and what working on such an unapologetically queer program means to them. Please listen to the interview below, and be sure to check out "RuPaul's Drag Race," which is now available to stream on various streaming services and is up for your consideration for this year's Emmys. Thank you and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Cody Derrick's interview with the Emmy nominated makeup team for RuPaul's drag race, Raven, and Natasha Marcellina.
0:11.3	Category is H2. Oh my God.
0:16.3	Hello, this is Cody Derrick with Next Best Picture, and I am so excited to be speaking today with
0:21.3	recent Emmy nominees for Outstanding Makeup for a variety, nonfiction, or reality program
0:27.1	for RuPaul's Drag Race. I'm here with Natasha Marcellina and Raven. Thank you so much for
0:32.3	joining me today, both of you.
0:33.9	Bye, Cody. Thanks for having us. Of course. Hello.
0:37.7	All right. I'm going to jump right in with a question for both of you.
0:41.3	For those who may not know, can you tell me about your role on RuPaul's drag race?
0:46.0	Natasha, I'm going to start with you.
0:48.1	So I am basically overseeing the makeup department for judges, guest judges, celebrity, guests, pit crew, dancers,
0:59.5	models, basically any guests that we have on the show.
1:03.7	All right.
1:04.3	And Raven, how about you?
1:05.4	Same kind of situation?
1:06.8	She does it all.
1:07.8	No, I am strictly in charge of Rue. I help get Rue in complete almost everything.
1:16.1	I mean, there's a lot that he does for himself, but I help get him in every camera ready.
1:22.2	Yeah.
1:22.7	And then, of course, our time where I'm also in front of the camera. So I do that myself.
1:28.9	I don't, you know, really care to have anyone else do it, although our team is one of the best,
1:34.1	and I would feel in good hands if they did do it.
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