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Did you ever make porn? Did I ever secretly make a porn movie? So they were trying not to laugh. So, yes, I guess. Once they shot a porn movie in my house and paid me for the location. This was a really long time ago, around the time of Pink Flamingos. And watching it being filmed was mortifying. It was just embarrassing. That was what was worse. It was just so awkward to me. I feel bad, always, for everybody. Well, I set one a long time ago.
Have you ever done drag? I was only in drag once, and that was as the Wicked Witch at a birthday party when I was 8 years old. That ended my drag career. You have to be so careful of what you say. But now, if you have a very liberal mother and they catch you, you have sexual reassignment lessons at 8 years old. And you might not really wanna do that. Well, people have babies. Your parents are supposed to tell you what to do.
Then later, if you disagree, you rebel and do the opposite. So, your point is that you need some sort of structure within which to define yourself. You need boundaries as a kid; you need boundaries as a parent.
And they can give you good ones and bad ones. My parents had a year happy marriage. I did stuff that was against everything they ever believed in, but they always made me feel safe.
In the last chapter of the book, in the thank-yous, I thank my parents for giving me the good taste to rebel against, to build a career on. Did you feel your mother was ever suffocated by suburban respectability? No, she was strangled by it because I violated it so much, and she said later that people used to send her, with no return address or name, clippings about my movies.
Hideous clippings. And they used to compare horror stories when they were young about going to openings and laugh. How do you view the recent canonization process of your work and career?
William Burroughs is the one that called me the pope of trash. Which was amazing to me. That was, like, the pope himself. But so, all right, the canonization or what about it? The last movie I made was sexploitation and got an NC rating. I started and ended in the gutter. In between I did sneak attacks that worked into middle America, especially Hairspray. Even racists like Hairspray. Just like when I saw King Lear on Broadway.
It reminded me of the Theatre of the Ridiculous. So you liked it? And I can see the argument why some people might not. But it took diversity to Charles Ludlam length.
They had tattoos. I love the deaf stuff. You could act butch and deaf. And then they had to learn how to act and sign at the same time. So, yeah, I like people doing extremes. I went to see the Isabelle Huppert play.
I love that she always does extreme things. He has one of the best senses of humor of all film directors. Climax was my favorite movie. I loved it, loved it, loved it. Do you still feel like subversion and provocation is possible in film right now? Certainly, [ Climax ] is a perfect one. I was very startled by the movie.
I thought it really delivered. Just sex and violence. Hollywood does that and does it badly. You have to think of a new way. And it does involve political correctness of all the things you can and cannot do in comedy today. But I think that makes it even more of a challenge to pull it off and startle people today. Do you think friendship takes a certain precedence over romantic love? I do have a personal life. Over half of my restaurant receipts are not tax-deductible. What do you attribute to the resilience of those relationships?
You have to keep in touch with people. You have to call people. You have to be fairly social; you have to want to see people. I have a Christmas party every year. I see him every year. In the book, you write about how you and Divine had rough patches at various moments.
Because where else could Divine get a job? That was the problem. I only made a movie every couple years. How is he supposed to live? But Divine, up to the end, still got 4 percent of the profits of all those early movies.
I still send it to the Divine estate. Mink and I had some problems in our life, too. Certainly, Divine, at the end, we were very close. Hide Show Self credits.
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TV Series Self - Episode 4. Related Videos. The only problem? After several lesser-known projects, Waters released Pink Flamingos , the film that shocked theatergoers around the world. The gross-out flick—which culminated in Divine eating real-life dog feces— was initially banned in Australia, Canada, and Norway.
Film critics didn't praise its merits, either. While films like Pink Flamingos , Desperate Living , and Female Trouble were underground cult hits, Waters did eventually achieve widespread success with Hairspray.
The film depicted Ricki Lake as an overweight teenager who dreams of being cast on a popular TV dance show.
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