“Michael Patrick King had cast me in 'A Mann’s World', which was an NBC pilot that we knew was going to series,” Pierce recalls. “When it didn’t, I remember him saying to me, ‘I think you’re comedy gold. I want to cast you in something else, and I promise I’ll come back to you.”

Sure enough, King circled back in 2012 and Pierce snagged the role of sassy movie theater usher Hallelujah. “Kat Dennings was a big 'Drag Race' fan, so we had a little kiki and I had a little kiki,” Pierce says. “And she ended up coming on as a judge!”

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