Patti LuPone Continues Her Epic Shading of Madonna on ‘Hot Ones Versus’
A truly great artist excels at all endeavors because they charge towards the work with full-force conviction. That is precisely what Patti LuPone does when it comes to shading Madonna.
The Broadway legend appeared on a special edition of Hot Ones Versus this week alongside her Agatha All Along co-star Aubrey Plaza, because press tours in 2024 eschew the needless frivolity of interviews with journalists for the crucial public service of eating chicken wings. (Adhering to a mandate that every Patti LuPone-related anecdote be delightfully quirky, LuPone and Plaza were roommates in addition to co-stars, with LuPone insisting on taking Plaza in and caring for her while the latter made her off-Broadway debut in last year’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.)
Hot Ones Versus is a competition-style spin on the popular interview/celebrity torture series, where actors are dared to tell a salacious truth, or otherwise take a bite of a painfully hot chicken wing. The person who eats the most wings—aka told the fewest truths—loses.