Drag Race star Jade Jolie’s adult film past has drawn scrutiny after one particular film–a Nazi roleplay–has resurfaced.
Nobody is criticizing the Season 5 queen’s past work in the industry, but the video is certainly a bad look. That’s putting it mildly.
Jolie, who is also slated to appear in the upcoming season 4 of the Boulet Brother’s Dragula, took to Instagram to offer a lengthy apology, claiming accountability for her choice and thanking fans who’ve reached out with “love and support.”
She said she participated in the film “against [my] better judgement” and have “felt shame and regret…every day since.”
However, this photo from the shoot does not bode well:
There are more photos we won’t include here.
Speaking to Boy Culture about her adult film past in 2013, Jolie said:
“You know, as far as that goes, I’m never going to regret anything I had to do. I had to make life decisions when I was young, to get by, the get where I am now. So I support everyone. You can come from somewhere like that and to be where I am now, so just don’t ever give up on yourself and don’t let anyone get you down.”
Here’s her full statement about the Nazi video:
Harley
Oh please. More pictures. Maybe give us the name of the movie so us horny old men can look it up.
Aaron
Don’t project your Nazi-porn curiosities onto horny old men.
gregg2010
I believe her sincere apology. Oh, the bad decisions we all made when we were younger.
G-Man
Agreed!
Aaron
Oh, the bad decisions WE all made when we were younger? I think that REALLY depends on what one did when they were younger. Dressing up as a Nazi and hailing Hitler is definitely not in my book of youthful woopsies.
Cam
Michael Cane, Charlotte Rampling, Tom Cruise, Rutger Hauer, Liam Neeson, and Kenneth Branagh
all played Nazis in movies. I don’t know the plot, if there was one, of the film, but it doesn’t seem like Jade was making a propaganda film. He was a young kid doing survival sex work and took money for a movie. Again, I don’t know the plot, so maybe it was horrible, but people seem to be acting like Jade was wearing a pro Nazi shirt at a rally.
That’s just Republican voters who do that.
SFMike
I totally agree with Cam. This doesn’t appear to be propaganda and amateur crap at best.
Jake123
Good point
MISTERJETT
actors portray nazis in movies all the time. THE SOUND OF MUSIC and SCHINDLERS LIST are full of them.
Wheelerman
Did that film “to get where I am now”. Where exactly are you now? Dressed as a woman on a ridiculous “reality” show? I’ve no interest in Drag Race, but what’s your next career move? Wigs and makeup will only get you remembered for a minute. Do you have a day job? I certainly hope so.
jw8890
Jesus arent you a freaking ray of sunshine.
Cam
So booking for thousands of dollars for a show, pulling in at least 6 figures a year, and some of them are pulling in millions.
Kangol2
So, people keep noting how famous actors have played Nazis in films. What no one is saying is that the Nazis are almost always portrayed as the horrible, monstrous figures they were. You know, invasions of most of Europe and North Africa, their slaughter of 6+ million Jewish people and millions of other Europeans, Roma, etc., their sterilization of mixed race people, their murder of the disabled, their quest for global domination, their work camps and internments of LGBTQ people, religious dissenters, etc.). HORRIFIC PEOPLE. They are not eroticized or portrayed as likable, sexy, etc. I have no idea what sort of film Jade Jolie participated in, but it sounds like it wasn’t along these lines.
Anyways, it should not be that hard to grasp that The Sound of Music or Schindler’s List or any number of other films depicting Nazis show them as evil villains, and that most viewers understand that these actors are not aiming to portray these Nazis as sympathetic or erotic figures. If Jolie’s film was eroticizing them, it would be a problem. She did apologize so clearly she realizes this was probably not a good move.
bachy
OMG I hope no one is looking to Jade Jolie as their model of ethical leadership…
Fahd
Prince Harry apologized for wearing a nazi uniform/costume to a party. His apology was accepted by prominent Jewish leaders in the UK and as far as I know everyone has moved on. I would encourage people to accept the apology here.
Openminded
I agree with what most here are saying. I don’t really see any harm done. I do wonder how the comments would go if it were a right wing actor in that costume. Just saying, people are too quick to cancel someone from the other side for doing the same thing someone from their side is doing.
Fahd, as for Prince Harry, it seems much easier for people to accept one’s apology when one is high up on the social/political ladder. But I see no difference in what Harry did and what this actor did.
jw8890
Are you forgetting that we currently have a right wing congressmember in a wheelchair who gets a hardon visiting nazi strongholds? Dude literally said he felt honored visiting Hitlers main stronghold. Also if it were a right winger lets be honest it wouldnt be that far of a stretch to believe that they actually agreed with nazi ideals (look at trump, greene and gaetz, as well as hawthorne)
Joshua333
Here’s what I have wrong with this:
– How can you blame an actor for something they didn’t write?
– Also, does this mean that films that arent adult that portray the Nazi’s are wrong and the people who act in them should be “held accountable”?
Kangol2
Not sure why this is so hard to grasp but films that portray that Nazis as the horrible monsters they were (and they were horrendous, from their beginning to their military defeat in 1945, just as neo-Nazis today are horrible) are DIFFERENT from films, TV shows, etc. that celebrate them, eroticize them, praise them, etc. An actor portraying a Nazi in the former is quite distinct from someone playing a Nazi in the latter. The same would apply to all of the actors who have played slave owners and masters, etc.
Bromancer7
I watched a brief snippet and it’s more comical than anything else, and it’s clear no one in the vid is taking themselves seriously. More faux Internet outrage over nothing.
Hank31
If I had fapped to a guy who later turned out to be a “drag queen,” I’d be sick to my stomach. He should apologize to the consumers who paid money for a film with men and instead got a film with a fem crossdresser.
jw8890
Maybe you should apologize for your horrible attitude. no one forced you jack off to a movie. That was your choice. Furthermore he shouldn’t have to apologize to a damn person.
Cam
Awww, the right wing troll account that always attacks LGBTQ people and defends bigots once again finds an excuse to attack a queer person.
Your troll game is sad and boring.
Crayonap
Nazi imagery in a porn. SS caps are part of S+M basic wear for the Gay community–reference The Pet Shop Boys or any imagery of the leather community. Eroticizing war, death, rape, this is part of sexual fantasy; reducing the monster to something manageable.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
If any of you have a minute go to YouTube and put in Mel Brooks’ Hitler Rap in the search bar. I say no more other than sit back and enjoy the gay slant and laugh your ass off like I did. I’ll bet you’ll watch it more than once and rock along with it. lol
Kangol2
There’s also Mel Brook’s masterpiece film The Producers, which mocks the Nazis with one of the most ridiculous and comical fake musicals ever created for a film, Springtime for Hitler. The original film is the one to see, for the humor, for Zero Mostel’s performance, and for the sheer absurdity. It’s a relic of its time, 1967 (before Stonewall), so it does include gay stereotypes (and great double entendres) and what would be considered sexist portrayals of women, but it is still quite a funny movie.
Lancealot
I saw an ad for the film: “…dark forces fell upon our twinks.” “In our time of need they will come together to save the world from horny Nazis, the antichrist, and bad porno cliches.”
sfhairy
I’m guessing the woke community has nothing better to do at the moment. It’s called acting, in a movie, a porn movie. Get over it.