(Video) RuPaul ‘Drag Race’ Contestant Nails Impersonation of Mo’Nique in ‘Precious’

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(Video) RuPaul ‘Drag Race’ Contestant Nails Impersonation of Mo’Nique in ‘Precious’

Posted at 02/22/2011 by Staff 0 Comment

If you love Rupaul’s ‘Drag Race’ then you will love this clip of one of the contestants, Stacy Layne Mathews, and her spot on impersonation of Mo’Nique in the movie, ‘Precious.’

Writer Tanner Stransky of Entertainment Weekly has a great rundown of last night’s episode:

But, if you can imagine, this season’s queens topped last year’s, and mostly because of — get ready to be shocked to the core — none other than Stacy Layne Matthews. Yes, I’m going there! Last night’s episode was insane and beautiful and offensive because one of the most questionable contestants in Drag Race history — yes, I’m talking about SLM! — made it so by perfectly doing a drag impersonation of Mo’Nique circa Mary, the actresses’ character from 2009′s Oscar-winning movie Precious. See the screen grab above for all the evidence you need.

Just like Mo’Nique so embodied her character in Precious, SLM so embodied Mo’Nique. I was absolutely mesmerized when she was on screen. I viewed the episode with a friend, and we found ourselves rewinding the scenes of the episode that featured SLM as Mo’Nique several times. Besides the spot-on makeup, hair, and sweat suit, SLM most magnificently managed to nail every single one of Mo’Nique’s ticks, like that nasty, snorty grunt she’d always cough out.

Take a look in the 3rd segment below.

RuPaul’s Drag Race – RuPaul – Logo: Fierce TV