Thanks to Leslie Jordan’s quarantine videos, the world now knows him for exactly who he is “Where should I be looking? There?
Or there?” His face smothering the camera as he wonders where his eyes should be, Leslie Jordan is settling into our video interview like it could be a comic routine about somebody trying to use Zoom for the first time.
Puckered together in a kind of duck-face pout are his elastic lips. A delicate smile curls into formation. Then Jordan scoots so low that only his forehead is visible.
More duck face. A big, eyes-squished grin. A peculiar sound that may or may not be a fart. And finally a tickled laugh when I tell him I recognize that he’s in the same room that made him a viral sensation. “It’s the only room I’ve