Charlize Theron expressed her robust assist for the drag group in her debut as a visitor decide on the season premiere of MTV’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”

Within the opening episode of Season 16, the Oscar-winning actor and longtime LGBTQ advised the queens that the groundswell of efforts to curb the rights of drag performers is pushed by worry and ignorance.

“Given the local weather in our nation proper now, there’s quite a lot of power being put towards your group not current. I really consider that each one of that’s coming from a spot of worry,” Theron advised the contenders on the long-running competitors collection. “The great thing about what your group brings and the reality of who you might be and signify will come out. Don’t hand over.”

Contender Xuname Muse, daughter of Kandy Muse, praised Theron for talking out. “I really like that Charlize got here right here,” Muse stated. “She is utilizing her platform to guard our rights. It’s affirming as an artist when our allies share the message of affection that we carry after we do that.”

Theron later sat down with the queens on “Drag Race’s” post-show “Untucked,” the place she talked about fame. “I can’t say that I’ve ever gotten to a spot the place I’m used to it. I’m not,” she stated.

As beforehand introduced, “Drag Race” returned to its 90-minute format this season. Along with Xuname Muse, queens competing for the title of America’s Drag Famous person embody Amanda Tori Meating, Daybreak, Geneva Karr, Hershii LiqCour-Jeté, Megami, Mhi’ya Iman Le’Paige, Mirage, Morphine Love Dion, Nymphia Wind, Airplane Jane, Plasma, Q and Sapphira Cristál.

The brand new season brings a twist to the present’s typical “Charge-A-Queen” course of, wherein contestants rank their fellow queens to find out the highest and backside contenders of the week. Host RuPaul introduced that this time round, the week’s high two queens will face off in a lipsynch elimination battle. Sapphira and Q had been chosen to “slay-off” by performing Beyonce’s 2022 hit “Break My Soul.”