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01:43Hi.
01:44Hi little biscuit.
01:48This place is awesome.
01:49Yeah, it's just for a little longer.
01:52Once that gig with HBO comes through, I'm getting my own place.
01:56In the meantime, I'm treating myself.
02:01Cheers.
02:04Cheers.
02:07Glad we're making this happen.
02:08Yeah.
02:09Me too.
02:10Two months of knowing each other and here we are.
02:12You know I'd offer you the role right now.
02:15This is basically just to appease the producers.
02:17Right.
02:18I mean they have to see something or else I'd be someone who slept with the writer director
02:22to get a part.
02:23But you knew I thought you were perfect for the role even before all that happened.
02:30Yeah, and you came to visit and the place was romantic and yadda yadda.
02:34I mean it would have been weird if it didn't happen.
02:36For the record, I don't often let things go that far, but I feel like it deepened our trust
02:43for each other.
02:46Yeah, I agree.
02:48Trust and believe.
02:50Like you always say.
02:55So, I got you this plastic tie from the clinic for your arm.
03:04Wow, so realistic.
03:07Yeah, the less we leave to the producers imagination the better.
03:11So, I had an idea on the way over here.
03:13What if, for the audition, we scrapped all this and showed the producers something else?
03:21Remember that night when we were drunk at the diner?
03:23The night we were craving biscuits and gravy when I made up that song.
03:28Ben and Joey went walking down the street.
03:31Ben turned to Joey and said,
03:32Hey.
03:33What'd it go?
03:34Crazy with crazy.
03:36What if that was my audition?
03:44That's not the audition.
03:46I told you that the part where it changes for the character is-
03:50He goes from smoking crystal meth to shooting it.
03:53Right.
03:54We've been over this.
03:55Right, and for the audition you just want me to inject myself-
03:59With saline solution, yes.
04:02Just like we talked about.
04:06We are looking for that honest moment of euphoria from the character.
04:13We can start when George gets here.
04:15Wait, George is coming?
04:16Oh, damn it.
04:18I forgot to tell you, my friend, the nurse, she had to pick up an extra shift today.
04:26I don't know if I feel comfortable doing this with George here.
04:30George is surrounded by this all the time in his line of work, and since he inspired the character-
04:34Since George is a super active gay porn star, somehow that gives him authority on how one should inject oneself?
04:41It's just a weird thing to ask someone for an audition.
04:44Do you not trust me?
04:52I will go to the bathroom, and fill up a new syringe right now in front of you, and prove
04:58to you that there's nothing weird going on.
05:02Ben?
05:07Why is there a dead catfish in the sink?
05:16I bought it.
05:19In Chinatown.
05:22I was gonna gut it and leave it on your pillow.
05:25I don't know.
05:28Why would you do that?
05:29Because this is all a lie.
05:36Don't run from this.
05:38George is on his way, and when he gets here, it'll make more sense.
05:44Joey.
05:50I know.
05:57What are you talking about?
06:02Why do you want to hurt me?
06:07You are sabotaging this right now.
06:09This all feels like a sick and twisted plan.
06:17I don't want to hurt you.
06:20When you tell someone that you want to watch them inject themselves with salient solution, it kind of feels like
06:25you might want to hurt them.
06:26Okay, I didn't mean to scare you.
06:28I'm not scared. I'm here. If I was scared, I wouldn't have come.
06:31Well, George is great, and when he gets here, you'll see.
06:33See what? Because I don't think we're trying to make a movie.
06:36Wow.
06:39This whole time I've known you, all you do is just push yourself further away from the things that you
06:43want.
06:44Well, I know I don't want this.
06:45You don't know what you want. You want one thing until something better comes along.
06:48For months, I have prioritized this until I realized I was being lied to.
06:52Lied to?
06:54You were intrigued by what I had to say.
06:57Yes.
06:57Then you got this idea of who I am.
07:01Yes.
07:02Then you decided to slaughter a dead catfish and leave it on my bed.
07:10Yes.
07:20You're just as crazy as I am.
07:22Oh, yeah?
07:24Joey Schlesinger. I'm just as crazy? What's up with the fact that you never told me a real last name?
07:29Silver's is a name I go by professionally.
07:32Why? Because of these?
07:34Stalking, breaking, entering? What's up with that?
07:38Get out.
07:40Oh. Catfish got your fucking tongue.
07:42Get out.
07:43Okay.
07:45Fine.
07:50Even if this is a story that I'm making up in my head, I just want you to know that
07:55I don't think it's your fault.
07:56All the work we've been doing.
07:59I know. I just don't think I can be a part of it anymore.
08:01Well, George is going to be disappointed.
08:04No. Nope. You can't guilt trip me with that.
08:07I fought for you.
08:08I want to believe you.
08:10George is coming.
08:11There's no script. There's no movie. You're not even who you say you are.
08:14But you said it's not my fault.
08:15It's not your fault. What they did to you when you were a child, but...
08:19But you're a fraud.
08:23It's best if I leave...
08:26Oh, the catfish.
08:37Please don't contact me anymore.
08:41Blocked.
08:42Great.
09:00George.
09:01Do I know you?
09:02Oh, no. Sorry. Just a fan.
09:22Hello.
09:23Hi, son.
09:23Oh, no.
09:24Oh, no.
09:27Oh, no.
09:29Oh, no.
09:29Oh, no.
09:37Oh, no.
09:40Oh, no.
09:42Oh, no.
15:03I would describe my drag, if I would even call it drag, is visually non-binary.
15:12In that there's a feminine face, but there are masculine features such as a hairy chest
15:18or hairy legs.
15:19So kind of blending things that don't go together.
15:25Drag is inherently socially engaged.
15:28You can't have a society without drag, and you can't have drag without society, because
15:32drag is a rejection of society, it's a rejection of cultural norm and stereotype and construct.
15:40But if no one's actually seen you rebel and reject the society you're mocking, did it even happen
15:46in the first place?
15:48If a drag queen falls over in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, did it still
15:51make a noise?
15:53Yeah.
15:54I kind of theorise that current contemporary drag performers who are kind of new wave renaissance
15:59drag, their drag persona is an extension of who they are as a queer artist.
16:07Which I definitely identify with, because whenever I put on my costumes and perform, I never think
16:14I'm performing as someone else, I think I'm just performing as me.
16:16But dressed up, because if you're not dressed up, no one knows that you need to be looked
16:21at.
16:21But when you're dressed up, everyone knows that they have to look at you.
16:24So that's how you get the attention, really.
16:30I started doing drag makeup in the summer of 2016, mainly because I was bored.
16:35And then when I started A Levels, other people liked it, and I do live streams and talk to
16:40people.
16:41A lot of what I do is revolved around hyper femininity, I'm questioning that.
16:47Why I like learning about it so much is sort of figuring out my own gender identity,
16:51actually come into terms with being non-binary.
16:57It is once starting university and learning more about Norwich's queer scene that I thought
17:02that it's something that I could continue doing.
17:06If that had to be categorised, it's more like club kid, sort of just performer.
17:11I suppose it's hard to sort of fit it into a box or a binary or whatever, when you don't
17:17quite fit into one.
17:19As soon as you say, oh, I do drag, people assume you do woman illusion.
17:26Which to an extent, sometimes.
17:28It's not based on the idea of looking feminine.
17:33I feel like I compare my drag a lot to people that are quite girly, because I see them doing
17:37really well, and it almost feels like this drag isn't the right drag.
17:42To the extent of having been told before that this isn't drag.
17:47I view our drag as just as good as anyone else is.
17:50Yeah, it's completely valid.
17:54The House of Days is a non-exclusive drag collecting.
18:01A lot of drag places around the minute have very funny definitions about what drag is.
18:08And we're just here to remind everyone that that's new, not for them to decide.
18:11It's for the performers to decide.
18:16The Norwich queer scene now engages with a queer fantasy more so than it does female impersonation.
18:22And the audiences who come to our shows have kind of welcomed it.
18:26They enjoy it.
18:28They think it's really cool.
18:30I'd say it's quite close-knit.
18:32Like, we all know each other.
18:33We're all friends with each other.
18:35And we all get influenced by each other slightly, I'd say.
18:39It's diverse as well, though.
18:41And that's what I find quite interesting.
18:42That everyone is accepting, but everyone does different things.
18:48The drag you go out in is basically a big symbol to all the other queerdos around.
18:54They're like, oh, you're one of us.
18:56You're one of the queer scene.
18:58And it just helps people gravitate together.
19:01And there's just a great sense of community among us, I think.
19:07We love a queer face.
19:09The first drag in the gallery was in November 2018.
19:15I kind of created this exhibition of the document, the Norwich queer scene.
19:20As well as having art on the walls, it would have a live show.
19:24And that live show would feature the performers who were on the walls as artwork.
19:31Mine's partly a character, but partly looks like an inward projection.
19:35I based him a year younger than me.
19:37Things that I had previously gone through, they were then projected a year later into drag.
19:44It's the first song when I started sort of doing drag that I was like, I'm going to do this
19:48one day.
19:50And it means a lot to me.
19:55Inside there is still a person who thinks and feels and is still human.
20:00And people probably forget that when they see people dressed up.
20:05You've got to be aware going into it as a non-binary AFAB person, you're almost more likely to get
20:11on the list to be a showcase of diversity.
20:17Automatically people say, oh, you're a bio queen.
20:19I mean, I'm not trying to make a message. I'm just dressed up in an aesthetic way.
20:25Explaining that and navigating that is quite difficult.
20:28But I find it nice because when I dress up femininely, it makes me feel like I am directly playing
20:35with gender and I'm dressing up as a gender.
20:37And it sort of reassures me in where I am as well.
20:43I think Norwich has a really progressive and welcoming drag community.
20:49But I don't know if the rest of England knows that.
20:54But now, I think Liz is just trying to have fun and kind of celebrate who they already are rather
21:02than trying to emulate other people.
21:05Just being a practicing queer artist, I guess.
21:09I hope that in the wider scale of things, it will pay off eventually.
21:13People will realise that we have built ourselves from the ground up.
21:17In the future, I would hope that we are elevated from where we currently are because it's what we deserve.
21:24To be part of something like this, we're in control of the current and the near future.
21:31I might not want to be a famous drag performer, but I want to work with other people.
21:38I would like people to see me as I see others.
21:41I want to be able to look at myself and be like, that was good, I'm going to do that
21:45again, with no changes.
21:47I feel like I am going towards that.
21:52Instead of thinking of it in a family setting, we're all basically children.
21:56Yeah. And we're running around.
21:57Running around, looking stupid, doing stupid things.
22:01Because we can.
22:03And because it's our scene, like, there's no one telling us what to do.
22:08We're all on this level.
22:09There's no one above us being like, you can't do that, because I said you can't do that.
22:16It's exactly what we want to do, and it's our own special thing.
22:21And not many people in this world get that experience.
22:24.
24:11Welcome to Columbus Savings Bank where hospitality comes first, kindness comes second and your financial affairs are a very close
24:17third.
24:18My name is Salvatore. Is there something I can help you with?
24:22Well, I'd hope so. You're like the third customer service rep that's sent my way.
24:26You have an account with us, Ms. Beckett.
24:28Yes, and I'd like to access...
24:29Do I have your account number?
24:30No, that's the thing. I don't have it. I was just speaking to your colleague and she's...
24:34Take your social security number.
24:36I don't have a social.
24:38How can you not have a social? Every American is born with a...
24:41I'm not American. I'm being deported from the country and I have to move my money to a foreign savings
24:45account.
24:47Oh, please hold.
24:57Oh, it's so far. It's not that far. It's not that far. It's not so much walking.
25:12Thanks for waiting, Ms. Beckett.
25:14Ms. Beckett.
25:15I hope the wait wasn't long.
25:17Yeah, it was.
25:18Can I have your full name again?
25:21Bellamy Beckett.
25:22And your date of birth.
25:24Your address.
25:25Your emergency contact.
25:26Your mother's maiden name.
25:27Your bra size.
25:28Your grandfather's burial place.
25:29Your first pet.
25:31It was a Japanese fighting fish called Igoner. Would you please just get me into my account?
25:35Oh, she said please.
25:38Okay, let's see.
25:41I've put in all your information, but some of your responses are incorrect.
25:45I can't allow you access to your...
25:47Sal.
25:48My good, good friend, Sal.
25:51Did you spell my last name with one T?
25:55Or two?
25:57Two.
25:58There's one.
26:00There's one bloody T in my last name, you twat.
26:03Oh, please hold.
26:16Whoa, there, cowgirl.
26:18We're really high over.
26:20I got you.
26:22What if I fall?
26:24I wonder if that happens.
26:27I fall into.
26:28I'm too.
26:34Mommy.
26:36Let's get married.
26:37Let's get married.
26:39Tell me, you're crazy.
26:41Of course I'm crazy.
26:44Oh, what am I going to do with you?
26:51Yeah, it's Sal again from Columbus Savings Bank.
26:54Hospitality comes first, kindness comes second, and your financial affairs are a very close third.
27:00Oh, for fuck's sake!
27:03Save me?
27:04The absolutely ridiculous spiel.
27:05Did you get into my account or not?
27:07I did.
27:09And you just have to pay our closing fee.
27:21Bellamy.
27:24I want a wedding.
27:26A real wedding.
27:27A bright Zillow reception that'll make my sisters jealous.
27:31My family, your family.
27:33Photographer.
27:34A real photographer.
27:35Not your hipster cousin who fucks with a 35mm.
27:38And I don't want it to be forced.
27:41It's not a get-out-of-jail-free card, it's our lives together.
27:44But, Bell, we can't have that.
27:46If we don't get married now, they'll send me back to England,
27:49and you seriously think you'll love me hard at 5,000 miles away.
28:06Listen, Sal, I've got an international flight,
28:08two months left on my lease that I've still got to pay for,
28:11student loans coming out of my ears,
28:13and now I've got to pay for this too!
28:15It's standard procedure, Miss Beckett.
28:17If you read the terms of condition...
28:19Yeah, I'll give you a condition.
28:20I'll give you a blood of kidneys.
28:21I can do that right now.
28:22That won't be necessary, ma'am.
28:24Destroying my kidneys does not fulfill the cancellation fee.
28:35Look at you, our professional.
28:38Stop it.
28:39I want to see recheck my visa.
28:42Everything's going to be all right.
28:43It was so easy for you to say.
28:46You're like an anchor to the ocean wave not to mind the time.
28:55I'm scared of things I'm not even scared of.
28:58Because if I'm not afraid of losing something,
29:01I'll end up losing it.
29:02It's like the fear of losing it
29:03is the only reason I haven't lost it.
29:05Like when I fly on planes,
29:07and I have to imagine the entire flight we're going down,
29:10because the one moment I calmed myself,
29:12that's the moment we're going down.
29:17Got you.
29:18Why can't we just get married?
29:20I'm ready.
29:21Why aren't you?
29:23Be too soon.
29:25Yeah, but it'd make all my problems go away.
29:29Like that.
29:31Let me tell you what.
29:33They tried kicking out the country.
29:35You and me.
29:36We'll get hitched.
29:42I'm nothing if not a green card.
30:10Your application to renew your U.S. work visa has been accepted.
30:14In order to officially renew your visa,
30:16you must make an...
30:21I'm nothing if not a green card.
30:30Miss Beckett?
30:32Is there anything else I can do for you?
30:44Is there anything if you want to sell it?
30:45Okay.
31:01What does it look like?