WATCH: A bullied queer kid blossoms into the electrifying queen Lady Camden in this joyful new doc
Lady Like, a fascinating, intimate, and joyful new documentary from filmmaker Luke Willis about RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 14 runner-up Lady Camden, a.k.a.
artist & dancer Rex Wheeler.The Camden Town, London-born performer (hence the drag name), has been subverting people’s expectations of him pretty much his entire life:Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.“I remember you guys telling me that you thought I was going to be really kind of butch and sexy because my name is Rex,” he jokes to some people he’s working with early in the film. “And then I got here and you’re like, ‘Oh, he’s a sister!'”That element of surprise has certainly played into his drag career, too.
When Lady Camden first strutted into the Werk Room on Drag Race, she certainly had polished looks and some solid dance moves that proved she earned her spot there, but it took some time ’til she really showed what she was made of and blossomed into a real threat for the crown.(For our money, the turning point was definitely the episode that featured her hilarious “Daytona Wind” acting performance, her immediately iconic faux-stumble on the runway, and her energetic winning lip-sync to Blondie’s “One Way Or Another.”)So how did Wheeler go from classically trained dancer at the Royal Ballet School in London to the performing in drag on the biggest stages of the world?
Well, that’s what Lady Like is all about!Described as a “rags-to-riches origin story,” the documentary starts at the very beginning.
