Scottish drag queen Lawrence Chaney was scrolling idly through their inbox one day when an email caught their eye. “It went, ‘Hi Lawrence. We’ve got this role in this film called Arthur’s Whisky and we’d love to invite you to be in it. You’d be starring alongside Diane Keaton, Boy George, Lulu …’” Chaney had become a bit of a celebrity on the drag circuit since winning RuPaul’s Drag Race UK in 2021, but it hadn’t gone to their head. “I thought, I know how the next email will go, ‘Great. I’m so glad you want to be a part of it. Send £7m to this untraceable bank account.’” They left the email unanswered for a fortnight.
At around the same time, Boy George was performing in Las Vegas when the phone rang: it was Lulu, asking if he would be interested in playing himself in a little film she was involved in.
