At first, Divine was more your typical 60’s glamorous drag queen, but Waters quickly reshaped him into something more, something perverse. Something unique. “In the very, very beginning Divine was like a real drag queen for about two seconds until I really got a hold of him. Because back then other drag queens hated him immediately because they knew that we were making fun of drag queens because drag queens were really very square then. They all wanted to be like Miss America and wear mink coats and all that. And Divine obviously made fun of that image. I mean here was someone who was fat and proud of it, which no drag queens were. And I think Divine had a lot of built in rage. I mean he was hassled in high school and I think he used that. Being Divine the character gave him an outlet for that and I think I had a lot of rage too and I think the two of us channeled our rage into whatever character Divine was playing in the film.”