“[The original Fab Five] swooped in, they saved the day, they usually swooped out. America didn’t actually need to learn about their lives,” Collins says. “That’s the primary change that occurred after we introduced [the current Fab Five] to the desk. We needed actual life, modern-day homosexual males. Their potential to be rather more genuine is what actually drove the evolution of this sequence for Netflix.”
When Netflix revived Queer Eye in 2018, it launched a brand new Fab 5: Jonathan Van Ness, Antoni Porowski, Karamo Brown, Tan France, and Bobby Berk; later joined by Jeremiah Brent following Berk’s departure in season 8. Collectively, they’ve constructed a repute for fearless authenticity and compassion, making them the right workforce to sort out the nation’s capital in 2025.
Filming season 10 wasn’t the Fab 5’s first time in D.C. Through the summer season of 2024, each former and present Queer Eye solid members had been invited contained in the White Home by Vice President Kamala Harris amidst her marketing campaign path to debate LGBTQ+ progress within the U.S. Collins considers this expertise probably the most “monumental visits” of his life.
“There was this enthusiasm and zeal for what was coming subsequent,” Collins says. “Come November, that hope received dashed. So we went to Netflix and mentioned, ‘Let’s go to the supply, child. Let’s present up and knock on the White Home door.”
This time round, when the Fab 5 traveled to the White Home once more they weren’t invited in. As an alternative, they stood exterior the massive gate with fellow vacationers, sparking attention-grabbing conversations with each followers and critics. Collins famous the highly effective imagery of the crew standing tall exterior of the White Home subsequent to individuals protesting for varied causes.
Except for groaning on the summer season warmth, the Fab 5 labored with heroes from throughout the District, Maryland, and Virginia. Some topics to look ahead to embody considered one of D.C.’s finest tour guides, two sisters dwelling collectively, a preacher, and a person who lives on a ship. One other attention-grabbing bit of knowledge Collins offered forward of the present’s premiere date was that season 10 will solely be 5 episodes lengthy.
