![]() ![]() He was so fully committed to the characters he played, and the way he lived his life, not caring what anyone thought about him was certainly inspiring. I’d never seen anything like it and watching him on screen was thrilling. And then finally seeing Divine in those movies was just mind blowing. At the time I had no tangible connections to gay culture, so John and Divine’s sensibility certainly helped lead me down a creative path. I had read about Pink Flamingos years before actually seeing it, in John Waters’ book Shock Value. Anyone who feels like an outsider growing up can certainly relate to the world that they created and the way they lived their lives. ![]() Schwarz: Since I was a teenager I’ve worshiped at the altar of Divine and of John Waters. Filmmaker interviewed the doc’s director, Jeffrey Schwarz, over email.įilmmaker: How did you first become interested in Divine? Starting its theatrical run this week at the Cinema Village in NYC and the Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane in Austin, I Am Divine tells the behind-the-scenes story of this force of nature that left no taboo unturned. Willing to do not almost anything but anything on screen (including eating dog feces for Pink Flamingos, one of the many films he made with the legendary shocksploitation director, John Waters), all in the name of art. ![]() I Am Divine, Jeffrey Schwarz, John Watersīefore there was RuPaul’s Drag Race, hell, before there was RuPaul, there was the divinely dangerous Divine, actor, singer, drag queen, provocateur extraordinaire. ![]()
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