Antoni Porowski on no taste like home, queer eye and wicked

Antoni Porowski may not be so strange as you think he is.

On today ‘only for Variety“Podcast, he says he is the” bad “film, but that was actually his introduction to the” Wizard of Oz “origin.” Full disclosure, I had not seen the musical and I didn’t really know what it was about earlier, “says Porowski.” I check some gay boxes, but not all. “

“Wicked” or not, Porowski has spent over the past seven years as one of the most visible celebrities in Hollywood as a member of the Fab Five of the award -winning “Queer Eye?”

Now in his ninth season, Porowski hopes for even 10. But he says that things have become a bit stale along the way. “I am not going to say that I have been agreed in the course of time, but it is as if you are doing something … I think I was just not so grateful,” he says.

Porowski struggled to find new ways to talk about food during the make -overs. “I am literally looking for synonyms. How do I ask in a different way: “Tell me about your relationship with food?” Or: “What has your grandmother made for you?” “Says Porowski.

But then Jeremiah Brent came along as the replacement of Bobby Berk in season 9. “I can think emotionally about it, he comes in with a new set of eyes alone,” says Porowski.

He also says that telling and strengthening queer stories-especially that Van Transmensen-Nog has become more meaningful as the LGBTQ community is attacked by right-wing legislators. “If we don’t keep telling those stories, history will repeat itself,” says Porowski. “We see signs and symbols from the past that come on stage by very powerful people, and it is extremely problematic to say the least.

“If we keep telling those stories, we will remember them, and there is less chance that we will repeat the same patterns or that we will stand for when we see those patterns come back to life,” he continues. “So I think that it is a republican, a democrat or another third party, whatever it is, we just have to keep telling different stories. I think we have the responsibility to do that as entertainers, or at least with ‘queer eye’ specifically. “

The newest culinary endeavor from Porowski is his new Nat Geo Food and Travel series, “There is no taste like home with Antoni Porowski”, which premiered earlier this week. Each episode contains Porowski who travels with a famous guests to locations around the world to explore their origins and how it may have informed their eating habits and family traditions. In the first episode, Florence Pugh drove through England. The line -up for the season also includes Issa Rae (Senegal), Justin Theroux (Italy), James Marsden (Germany), Henry Golding (Borneo) and Akwafina (South Korea).

If “No Taste Like Home” is renewed, Porowksi Poland would like to visit with Martha Stewart to explore their Polish roots. He remembers that he saw Stewart Kabbage roles cooking in her show with her mother. “I used to look at that YouTube videos religiously as a child. It was the only representation of a Polish person in the media and she made cabbage roles and she was proud of them, what looked like, wow, I didn’t know people could be proud of growing up Polish food, “says Porowski.” I say that like a pole, so I can. “

You can listen to the full conversation with Porowski on ‘Only for Variety“Above or where you download your favorite podcasts.