Hello everyone, I'm Jinx Monsoon and welcome to a brand new episode of High Jinx with me, Jinx Monsoon.

Today I am in my dressing room in Toronto, Canada. I'm on tour with everything at stake.

We've been showin' the show. I don't know. I started an S sound like I knew what I was gonna say.

We've been showin' the show. It's been going great. You can still get your tickets at JinxMonsoon.com.

We've got Toronto, the Montreal, then a couple more stops in Canada, and then we embark through the U.S.

So I'll see you when we tear through your town. But today on High Jinx, oh my gosh, this episode,

so much fun. We have just a really prolific, wonderful writer, director, producer, Justin Simeon.

He created dear white people. He directed Haunted Mansion, which is a in theaters either now or it's

about to come out whenever this is airing. The point is he is such an incredible filmmaker,

and he's going to talk about his process, why he creates the work that he does,

and his experiences in Hollywood as a black queer man. So let's sink our teeth into some brand new

High Jinx and don't forget to buckle up and hunker down while you're at it. It's High Jinx, here we go.

Hello everyone, I'm JinxMonsoon and welcome to High Jinx, a podcast where I, an internationally tolerated

drag superstar, get to interview compelling and fascinating people about how they became who they are

and why they do what they do. Today we are joined by writer, director, and producer Justin Simeon.

Hi Justin. Hi Jinx. Did I pronounce your last name correctly? I think so. I wasn't really

paying attention. This is so surreal for me to be talking to you. I'm not wearing a stitch of

makeup. And yet you're gorgeous and you are everything I hope you would be.

Well thank you so much for joining me today. My listeners will know you for a lot of different things.

Yes. To list a few, dear white people, both the film and the series, bad hair, and you're directing

haunted mansion. You directed a haunted mansion. So then just skipping a hop over to Disney.

You know, it's kind of what is what you got to do these days. I was sort of like at the end of

...