Jordan’s journey to Hollywood reads like the script of a rags-to-riches Lifetime movie, one riddled with embellishments. Photograph: Fox/Image Collection/Getty Images Leslie Jordan and Kyla Pratt in Call Me Kat, the US remake of Miranda. Now I’m settled – I don’t drink or smoke. “Sometimes I think: ‘I wish had happened years ago,’ but I would have fucked it up,” he cackles, something he does a lot. “So I went to visit my friend, we went out on a boat with the Vedders, and it just came up.” Blimey. “I have a friend who works for the Secret Service and he travels with the Obamas, and they’re good friends with the Vedders, because they both have houses in Hawaii.” Right. Before I can even ask how he came to work with the 90s grunge legend, he is off. There is also his debut album, Company’s Comin’, a sweet, country-gospel collection featuring duets with Dolly Parton and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder. Last month, he appeared in Lee Daniels’ Golden Globe winner The United States vs Billie Holiday, while his second book, How Y’all Doing? Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived, is out in April.
He is filming a new sitcom, Call Me Kat, the US remake of the British hit Miranda. Watch compilation of Leslie Jordan videosĪs his follower count shot up, the work started rolling in.
