And then there was India. He and Willie were out there for so long, just putting on their own shows. The life story of the legendary Walter Mercado is finally being told in the wonderful new Netflix documentary, Mucho Mucho Amor. India went home, and in the next challenge I felt like I was the kid that nobody wants to play with at the playground. The film follows the asexual, nonbinary astrologer from his humble San Juan beginnings to his rise as one of the most popular astrologers on the planet. View this post on Instagram. Alex: We knew Lin had tweeted about Walter numerous times. He has been named journalist of the year multiple times by both OutSmart Magazine and the FACE Awards. He's part of a team that includes co-director Cristina Costantini and producer Alex Fumero. Alex: I would just add that there’s a nonbinary astrologer who’s clearly inspired by Walter named Astro Sagas. That’s how it came to be. We’ve posted a bunch of stuff about International Nonbinary Day yesterday, and I got a bunch of replies from non-binary folks going, “Thank you. We would say it was definitely Walter moving constellations around to make things happen. Let's get that outta the way. Ashley Hoover Baker July 10, 2020 3:50pm The team behind Netflix ‘s ‘ Mucho Mucho Amor ‘ celebrates RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 5 ‘s Alexis Mateo ‘s snatch game performance of Walter Mercado . Jujubee does Eartha Kitt, Shea does Flavor Flav, Alexis Mateo does Walter Mercado, India does Jeffree Star, Blair does Ellen DeGeneres, and Cracker does Lady Gaga. Cristina: Oh my God, absolutely. Alexis' portrayal of astrologer, Walter Mercado, was out of this world. Admitedly I learned of Walter Mercado through Alexis Mateo on RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars 5. Thousands and thousands of people who often, it has the same thing, his presence has such an impact. He was loved and seemingly successful and fancy and so different. Esta semana me encontré con un documental sobre su vida en Netflix y me sorprendió el impacto de su figura durante más de 30 años en todo hispanoamérica. Honestly, it was not my first choice for Snatch Game. I am a European and we never had Walter on TV when I grew up, for us it wasn't such a cultural thing. #AllStars5 #DragRace The documentary revolves around his impact and legacy, as well as features Walter Mercado himself. She then did Puerto Rico proud in the Snatch Game episode with a hilarious impersonation of late astrology icon Walter Mercado. He is an incredibly imageable person. I realized I'm a very good entertainer, a very good actor, very polished. She portrayed Walter Mercado, an iconic Puerto Rican astrologer and actor, and she was totally in her element. How are you today? Drag Race GIF by RuPaul's Drag Race. Alexis was in complete control of her Snatch Game round. So, they contacted me before the episode and told me they were going to air it the following week. Walter described it as a meeting of two Titans of Puerto Rico. ALEXIS MATEO: Yes! And I don't know why we haven't cast people from other countries in Latin America. En un capítulo de la versión "All Stars" de "RuPaul's Drag Race", la queen puertorriqueña Alexis Mateo imitó a un personaje que me pareció fascinante: el astrólogo Walter Mercado. She teamed up with Yara Sofia for a solid run on the first "All Stars" season. The Puerto Rican queen was top three during her first season on "RuPaul's Drag Race." Thankfully through Latin Queens and Netflix (like Jinkx Monsoon with Little Edie) I was able to discover an icon. Alex: Also, it’s always like hard. Dolly Parton once ruffled my hair and said I was "just the cutest thing ever.". That was really emotional because it was just two and a half months after Walter died. Blair decided to stick with her Ellen Degeneres and, as time goes on, it looks like it’s not paying off. This time, I'm 40 years of age, and I don't have to give nobody explanations. We were like, “No, Walter. Kareem: He loved the movie. Kareem: No, we asked him about it. Poor India. I realized that everybody in the top had wins already except me and Blair, who has traveled with these girls on tours and was in their season. Thankfully through Latin Queens and Netflix (like Jinkx Monsoon with Little Edie) I was able to discover an icon. It’s really just striking. Esta semana me encontré con un documental sobre su vida en Netflix y me sorprendió el impacto de su figura durante más de 30 años en todo hispanoamérica. I think Alexis did a fine job. when you go home for the holidays and get hit with the '¿y el novio/a/e?' 3 | What are the odds that RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars‘ Alexis Mateo would portray Walter Mercado just five days before a new documentary about the eccentric TV psychic hit Netflix?. And he was beloved. We don't see a lot of Latin queens repping their language and culture on the show. His TV show, which encompassed a message of positivity reached every corner of the world. In the previous seasons that I was on "Drag Race," I think I did a great competition. And … I always think about Walter. I'm telling you, the girls and the show, we have been going through the whole fandom hate. He also covers various aspects of pop culture. I think the fact that he didn’t talk about it is kind of brilliant, but showed it in a brilliant subversive way and pushed the envelope. As soon as I saw the wig at your work station, I knew you were doing Walter Mercado for Snatch Game. He's appeared as a regular correspondent on Fox26 and was head judge and director of the Pride Superstar singing competition for a decade. … – @CurlyVee #MuchoMuchoAmor #WalterMercado pic.twitter.com/m0Q2ljD9HP, — Con Todo (@contodonetflix) July 11, 2020. Alexis Mateo transforms into Walter Mercado. They’d sit quietly, patiently waiting by the television to hear Mercado read their daily horoscopes, ready to soak in his dramatic guidance and contagious optimism. They were working with VH1 and already knew I did Walter for Snatch Game . Perhaps she saw it in the stars." But I think one of the things that makes me strong is how well I do as a pageant queen. Kareem Tabsch: It was really fun! # PersonajePlagio: Walter Mercado . I have a friend who’s a mutual friend of Lin’s and I just said, “Hey, just let him know that Walter Mercado would love to meet Lin while he’s in Puerto Rico if he happens to have the time.” Lin’s father Luis, who you see in the movie also, knew Walter from before. And I don't have to campaign in pageants to win. ©Copyright 2021 Hearst Communications, Inc. Review: Familiar addiction drama 'Four Good Days' features standout performances, Review: A new 'Mosquito Coast,' this time with narcos, Review: 'The Handmaid's Tale' is far from perfect. It’s so interesting how somebody could have such a large impact over so many years on so many people. Playing for Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman's heart is Blair St. Clair as Ellen DeGeneres, Jujubee as Eartha Kitt and Shea Couleé as Flavor Flav with Couleé being selected as the winner by Bowyer-Chapman. You can’t always ascertain someone’s sexual orientation via a comment. When Cracker accidentally answered Alexis’ question as her own, she didn’t skip a beat. AwardsWatch: Miss Alexis Mateo, hello! A post shared by Alexis Mateo (@miss_alexis_mateo) on Jul 4, 2020 at 12:54pm PDT “We made the movie so we could play Walter Mercado drag,” jokes director Kareem Tabsch. But people tend to forget about me a lot. I feel like he was made for Instagram with his constant changing of looks. No tea, it was planned. I am doing great. Alexis Mateo: [As Walter Mercado] I was looking in my future and I saw you coming. He hated it, which was actually a very progressive woke idea. Does that put more responsibility on you, having done this now three times? I hope if something happens, I'm part of it. While the documentary is very much a tribute to Walter, the lack of omnipotent voiceover, often a staple of the genre, does at least give the appearance … We talked about it with him multitudes of time, but he articulated he did not like labels. They got in touch with Walter and Lin turned down all kinds of press, except for going to meet Walter for that one meeting. “Representation of my Latin roots was always there,” said Puerto Rican drag queen Alexis Mateo of her time on ... of late astrology icon Walter Mercado. We should say this upfront: last week's lip-sync was a little weird. I can’t be the only American philistine who wasn’t aware of Walter Mercado before he was lovingly parodied by drag queen Alexis Mateo on the most recent season of Drag Race All Stars.That’s why the timing of the Netflix Original documentary Mucho Mucho Amor mere weeks after that episode aired was such a beautiful, unexpected gift. Walter Mercado [1932-2019] (Alexis Mateo, All Stars 5) Joan Rivers [1933-2014] (Jimbo, Canada's Drag Race 1) Miss Cleo [1962-2016] (Priyanka, Canada's Drag Race 1) Edith Piaf [1915-1963] (Rita Baga, Canada's Drag Race 1) Harriet Tubman [1822-1913] (Symone, Season 13) Mary, The Queen of Scots [1542-1567] (Rosé, Season 13) Bob Ross [1942-1995] (Utica Queen, Season 13) Trivia. But I grew up with it, so it became part of my culture. It becomes very clear that Alexis is doing the best and she’s chosen by the “Snatchlor” in the end. I have to say, this round was a little rough. I was worried about it in the beginning because I'm older now. Mucho Mucho Amor’s directors, Cristina Constantini and Kareem Tabsch, along with producer Alex Fumero, spoke with NewNowNext about all things Walter—including filming the documentary, Alexis Mateo’s impression of him on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, and how Walter saw himself as a “20-year-old twink.”. Miz Cracker as Lady Gaga sits alongside Alexis Mateo (Walter Mercado) and India (Jeffree Star.) Votes: 2,769 He also covers various aspects of pop culture, including the local drag scene and "RuPaul's Drag Race.". Admitedly I learned of Walter Mercado through Alexis Mateo on RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars 5. It was like Puerto Ricans have been hording Walter to yourself this whole time. "It was my question you dumb b*tch. The first round of Snatch Game of Love featured Lady Gaga, Walter Mercado, and Jeffree Star. I can’t believe this person, and somehow I didn’t know about this.” There’s a comedian who did a really amazing bit about it. They would produce the whole thing from the set to the makeup to the jewelry and the capes. We’ve had so many Latina queens and so many Puerto Rican queens on the show and I’m surprised nobody’s been Walter. Kareem: The project from conception to release was three years. That was horrible. # PersonajePlagio: Walter Mercado . Directors: Cristina Costantini, Kareem Tabsch | Stars: Walter Mercado, Willy Acosta, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Raul de Molina. We knew that he was of a like mind when it came to Walter. He told us we were obsessed! Shea Coulee did Flavor Flav, Jujubee knocked it out of the park with the best Eartha Kitt we've ever seen, and Alexis Mateo did Walter Mercado to absolute perfection. Nacido en un sector rural de … Nevertheless, Alexis says she's proud to be "in the top five of a fierce competition." Cristina: So much. That generation was not used to talking about their sexuality in an explicit way. I think the success that I've had on the show is because of my pageant training. High quality Alexis Mateo gifts and merchandise. Whenever we started filming, he would be vogue-ing and trying to make it as interesting as possible. ', Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie -- Mugen Train, India Ferrah talks ‘All Stars’ drama and why she returned to the show. He's known as a larger-than-life and flamboyant figure—both characteristics that are highlighted in the Netflix show. There are pictures of him wearing it, so extra points for accuracy. I didn't remember if I did it in a respectful way, if that makes sense. Even Twitter and social media, there are tons of people who are like, “I’d never heard of Walter Mercado before, and then Alexis Mateo and then the documentary.” We talked about this amongst ourselves. # PersonajePlagio: Walter Mercado . He came up during a time when you could ever afford to do anything boring on tape. It must have been frustrating that, true or not, India Ferrah planted that seed in the other queens' minds. The next set of contestants enter the Snatch Game of Love. Alex: We’re definitely working on some sort of a movie or a scripted movie or perspective series. The challenges that Walter had as a career and just as an astrologer on television for 50 years, he had 50 years of rehearsed answers, particularly for the more probing questions, if you will. But after decades of enthralling viewers, the Puerto Rican icon disappeared … Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado was a global phenomenon. Cristina: It’s really exciting to see people come out of the woodwork and be like, “I can’t believe I missed this. But I think I did a great job. Then we heard that he was going to Puerto Rico to perform Hamilton. He was the whole package. I didn't know how I was gonna look next to the other girls. Also, he spoke in small bites. It's her back back back again, sickening no? Or at least tied with Jujubee. He looks like an Instagram influencer. I planned to do Mariah Carey because it was Snatch Game of Love, and I was like, "If I do Walter Mercado, Michelle (Visage) will have a heart attack because it's a man." I think it’s important to underscore that Walter, even though Walter didn’t come out completely or completely defined himself as gay in a public way, he certainly embraced the queer energy and his own queerness. Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen. India Ferrah, in what could have been a ploy to save herself, told Shea Couleé that Alexis was secretly trying to get India to vote Shea out a few weeks back. I’m a queer person myself, so it really was a driving factor to my personal desire to make the film as a young queer boy growing up in Miami and seeing Walter. Walter was a huge Lin fan, but I think at that point he was already kind of physically hurt, so the idea of being able to go to the actual show, it was not practical. The documentary is so well made and thankfully very respectful and peaceful. Since Season 3, I wanted to do Walter. 88-year-old Walter saw himself as a 20-year-old twink. He was very supportive of it. But after watching the show, I saw I did what I needed to do. He's known as a larger-than-life and flamboyant figure—both characteristics that are highlighted in the Netflix show. The filming process was two years. I write about drag queens. To talk about parrots doesn’t fit squarely into a narrative structure. I am a European and we never had Walter on TV when I grew up, for us it wasn't such a cultural thing. Alexis, Jujubee, and Shea … Following his death in 2019 at the age … Ru was setting her up and she was whiffing every softball thrown at her. There’s a story about when Walter got a, what he calls a “dirty talking bird,” but a parrot that swore. Kareem: Yeah. But yeah, I think he would have been great on Instagram. There’s a lot of adorable stuff and fabulous stuff and things that we just weren’t able to find a place for. Even though I felt like I had a better track record than Blair, I was like, "This is going to be a Blair vs. Alexis voting moment, and I have everything to lose here." I was like, "Oh, I got this." I don't think I was mean. Walter died at 88. En un capítulo de la versión "All Stars" de "RuPaul's Drag Race", la queen puertorriqueña Alexis Mateo imitó a un personaje que me pareció fascinante: el astrólogo Walter Mercado. But there are, I would say, a fair amount of people who will present similarly to Walter and present in ways that are not necessarily on the binary. Alex Fumero: I’ve seen several comments already of people saying, “I learned about Walter through Alexis Mateo, and I’ve loved the movie.” I think it’s creating this awesome intersection and entry point for folks who would have no reason to know Walter, which is for us, half the reason we made the movie. I feel like not only did I need to represent my culture, but I really needed to remind the world that we need more Latinas on the show. Alexis Mateo’s Walter Mercado. A new Netflix documentary focusses on Walter Mercado, an astrologer and TV personality who defied all predictions. Whatever the case, Daniel Trainor and Sam Stone chatted with Alexis Mateo about the feud™, her iconic Snatch Game performance as Puerto Rican camp legend Walter Mercado and what’s going to happen the next time she runs into India Ferrah. So many imitators poke fun of him. Unfortunately, during that same episode, contestant India Ferrah alleged that Alexis had been plotting to eliminate Shea Coulee a few episodes back, which placed a target on Alexis Mateo that ultimately got her eliminated on the … It felt really celebratory of him. It was hilarious. Celebrities … We are floored by that. Alexis’ Walter Mercado was spot-on and cracked Ru up consistently. Cristina: I would also think that Walter hated labels in general. he represents moments when we're hanging out with our abuelitas, with our moms." "It was my question you dumb b*tch. this will be my new response:#MuchoMuchoAmor pic.twitter.com/D58kbN5JFz. RuPaul wasn’t buying either of those characters. Walter Mercado was a pillar of the Latino community. The Queen. We’re several years apart in age and there’s a lot of younger folk who think the same thing. When Cracker accidentally answered Alexis’ question as her own, she didn’t skip a beat. I should add that Walter Mercado 100% owned that outfit. Alexis Mateo's Walter Mercado Alexis was in complete control of her Snatch Game round. The Cosmic Coincidence of Alexis Mateo’s Walter Mercado Impression, 17 Exciting Queer Books to Savor This Summer, The 20 Most Exciting LGBTQ Movies of 2021, 19 Swimsuits For Beachgoers Looking To Ditch Gender Norms, Jesse Leigh Is the Witchy, Nonbinary Bestie We All Need in Our Lives. 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