Trixie Mattel stars in the documentary “Moving Parts,” which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and gives a glimpse into the drag superstar’s world behind the wigs and comedy.<br /><br />“When you watch the film, ‘Moving Parts,’ it’s not the Justin Bieber experience,” she explained. “It’s like me not in drag rifling through a suitcase in my garage, which is honestly the real spirit of drag.”<br /><br />“The film follows Trixie on two concert tours, winning “All Stars 3,” and a bumpy start to “The Trixie & Katya Show.” Katya, Trixie’s co-host eventually took a leave of absence from the show for mental health reasons.<br /><br />“I never talked about it — it was never my place,” she said. “And in this film especially, Katya and I, we sat down with my [management] we all watched it together, had a lovely room temperature diet coke, and we were like ‘a lot of this is uncomfortable but it is what it felt like in the room,’ so I think it’s important for anything that has to do with drag or gay people or mental illness or substance abuse — not talking about it is part of the problem.”<br /><br />Trixie says an underlying sentiment of the film is that happiness doesn’t mean everything goes right for you, and to accept that there will be bad with the good.<br /><br /> This video, "Trixie Mattel's New Documentary Shows the 'Real Spirit' of Drag </a>", first appeared on<br /> nowthisnews.com</a>.<br />
