To embody Chester, who Smith says the script describes as “modelesque” and “Adonis-like,” Smith watched every season ofAmerica’s Next Top ModelandRuPaul’s Drag Race "Happy birthday to one of the the most real, down to 🌎, stunning, intelligent, creative, loving, and most rare Pokémon ever created."However, it's worth noting that Alexandradismissed Beyoncé also noted that proceeds from “BLACK PARADE” will go toward theBEYGOOD Another aspect that Smith brings to Chester is his knowledge of how an Anaheim upbringing can work to suppress Black queer expression. “I was one of very few Black people in Anaheim, and that led to a kind of isolation and loneliness that I personally suffer with, that I actually identified in Chester.”Seven minutes intoGeneration