Queer Eye’s Jai Rodriguez on RENT, Bros, Fire Island & more

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Jess welcomes actor/singer JAI RODRIGUEZ — known as the OG Culture Guy on QUEER EYE. Jess fell in love with Jai as a teen, starring on Broadway as the beloved HIV+ drag queen Angel in RENT. We discuss his reign in NYC nightlife as a cabaret performer and his eventual big break on Queer Eye. We chat about his recent roles in BROS and Netflix's UNCOUPLED, and the irony of Jai relating more to Joel Kim Booster's FIRE ISLAND than the film he appeared in (BROS).

* Catch Jai's cabaret show LIVE at Oscar's Palm Springs on March 4th - oscarspalmsprings.com for tix! *

IG: @jessxnyc | @jairodriguez

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives and I am so excited to welcome back J.R.I.D.
0:19.7	Regas.
0:20.7	He was most recently seen in Bros and the Netflix series uncoupled.
0:24.8	But you know him of course as the OG Culture Guy from Queer Eye.
0:28.8	But for me, J.R.I.D. Regas will always be the boy I was obsessed with as a teenager
0:33.7	because I was a huge rent head.
0:37.3	I've seen rent like 30 times.
0:39.1	Well me too, like I started as a rent head.
0:41.7	I was the big rent fan in 1996.
0:45.2	I started going religiously sleeping in the streets, getting the rush tickets, total
0:49.0	rent head.
0:50.0	I've got my book with all the cast signatures in it and then over time essentially I graduated
0:56.9	high school and one of my first auditions at an agency, they asked if I could sing.
1:01.3	I sang glory.
1:02.6	They were like they're auditioning people today.
1:04.4	If we set you right now, could you go and be prepared and I was like yeah.
1:09.0	And like did you think that you were auditioning for the role of Mark or Roger?
1:13.9	No, I knew that I was going in for Angel but when I met with the agents it was just to
1:18.9	see if they wanted to represent me and the song I thought from the show that could best
1:23.0	showcase vocals would be like the glory song because of the high range of the character.
1:29.7	And so I gave that as my audition song, they just kind of asked us an add-on, they didn't
1:36.0	I don't think they expected me to be good.
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