Special Report: Nick Murray on Wigloose

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4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Director Nick Murray discusses his work on RuPaul's Drag Race and the Emmy-nominated episode Wigloose, a "Rusical" parody of Footloose in which a little drag kid can't dress up due to unfair laws...

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off.
0:25.6	Turn it off.
0:26.6	Hey folks. welcome to a special episode of The Projection Booth.
0:42.8	I'm your host, Mike White.
0:43.9	On this episode, I'm talking with Nick Murray.
0:46.9	He is the director of Rupal's Drag Race.
0:50.9	He's been working on that show for a long time, I believe, since 2011. And he was the
0:57.2	director of last season's Rusical, Wigloose. It was the parody of Footloose, of course, very, very timely.
1:06.2	It was incredibly prescient that it came out when it did, kind of started it as parody and then was really a mirror of what's been happening in the country.
1:15.7	Thank you so much for listening.
1:17.0	Best of luck to our friends over at Rupal's Drag Race at the Emmys this year, and I hope you enjoy this interview.
1:24.3	I have been a fan of your work without really knowing it for years. We watched
1:29.8	Tabitha takes over religiously. That was one of the, I think, God, that was many years ago
1:37.8	when I first, probably within a few years. No, when did I do that? 2010, 2009? Yeah, I took from the director and yeah, that was one of my,
1:50.0	probably one of the first known shows that I did after moving to L.A. Super fun. It was the,
1:56.7	one of the, when I was shooting that show, it was the first time I experienced an earthquake in
2:02.5	LA and we were downtown underneath this huge building, like in a basement or something.
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