Model/actor/producer/TV personality Honey Labrador recently spoke with AfterEllen.com while she and her manager were on route to the airport in New York, where her new film, April's Shower, had just had a preview screening. It was released two days later, on January 13, in limited cities and is also playing on here TV this month.
AfterEllen.com: How was last night's screening?
Honey Labrador: It went really well. They had two theaters of people down at the quad and a great response. So it was pretty exciting. But, you know, 48 hours in New York is never enough.
AE: Definitely not. And are you based in L.A. now?
HL: Yes, I've been in L.A. for about 15 years. We actually have a premiere tomorrow night at the Regent Showcase, because Regent is releasing April's Shower. So it's being released theatrically, officially, on Friday the 13th, which should be a lucky day. I just don't believe in those superstitions. It opens Friday in New York, L.A., San Francisco and Palm Springs, and then we have a rollout to ten different cities over the next two months.
AE: I hear there's a special event after the premiere in L.A. Are you guys all appearing somewhere?
HL: Actually Girl Bar is sponsoring a screening Friday night, the opening, and then everyone
can get into Girl Bar. There'll be a party there after the Friday night shows, so that'll be fun.
AE: Can you tell me a little bit about your character in April's Shower, Sasha?
HL: Sasha is a character who in some ways is very much like me. Like, I need to know right now, and I'm not going anywhere until I get an answer. And if you don't tell me the answer that I want to hear, then I'm going to do whatever I have to do. And that's how Sasha is. Sasha and her girlfriend Sophie are mid-fight and so, of course, they have to bring this fight to the shower. Because it's not finished. Like the two crazy Latin kind of lesbians that we are, we're just going at it from the moment we walk in the house.
AE: Are you Latina?
HL: Well, my father was Philipino, Chinese and Spanish. I've got all of that Spanish kind of
crazy blood, on the one side.
AE: Let me make sure I have all of this right: You had an international modeling career that started when you were 17?
HL: Yes. I'm the big 4-0. I turned 40 this past year. So, I started modeling at 17, and, yeah, I modeled all over the world. I'm from New York originally. I grew up in Southampton. You know, I got married, had a kid, and then realized that, oh wow, I like girls. I had a six-month-old
child and then my first girlfriend just appears. The rest is kind of history, but I moved out to L.A. to pursue acting, and really ended up be coming a producer. And then by stroke of luck and faith I ended up getting Queer Eye for the Straight Girl, and that put me in a totally different position with the LGBT community—one that I'm really grateful for. But it keeps me extremely busy.
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