'But I’m A Cheerleader' was a garish, satirical first in the bleak canon of queer film.
tackle the subject by taking a sombre approach. Meanwhile, Jamie Babbit and screenwriter Brian Wayne Peterson encourage us to laugh in the face of cruelty. There’s power found in ripping evil to shreds with humour.
’s gay varsity wrestler Dolph. “Jamie said to me: ‘The thing about Dolph is that he’s the boy next door, and Dante, you’re the boy next door.’ The brilliance of Jamie is that she’s able to see past my ethnicity. An Asian character with two lines in a movie is not a full person. For her to understand how the world really is -- it’s not just a white world -- was really important. She’s exactly the kind of director I wanted to work with.
“RuPaul was our straight coach and we were these teenage boys trying to become straight by chopping wood and running around trying to be guys,” Dante laughs . “The irony was super comical. During a montage scene, they were shooting me and Kip Pardue, Joel Michaely and Doug Spain listening to RuPaul talk. He was going off on a monologue about really explicit sexual things off-screen; it was so hard to keep a straight face. The outtakes of him schooling us on being gay off camera were hilarious.
“I had to shorten Megan’s masturbation scene, and cut a line of Hilary’s where she says ‘Did you go down on Megan?’” Jamie explains. “They don’t like female masturbation and they don’t like any reference to oral sex between women.” And looking at the straight teen movies released that time -- in the R-Rated, the lead character graphically masturbates with a hot apple pie -- there’s a disparity. “Those double standards really pissed me off,” she agrees.
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