POPSUGAR: Can you share a little bit of your background and how you first got involved in cosplay?
Chris Villain: I started off my professional career as a singer for the Disney parks. From there, I started making YouTube videos and also unknowingly started cosplaying in those videos. In my mind, I was just dressing up as the characters that sang the songs I wanted to cover. Little did I know that dressing up as a character you loved is called cosplaying and that there was a whole lifestyle attached to it!
PS: What made you decide to start trying out gender-bent cosplay? What do you like most about it?
CV: I started out gender-bending in some of my Disney singing videos on YouTube. A lot of the female Disney songs are songs I remember from my childhood and songs that I really like to sing. So I tried imagining what those characters would look like as males and went from there. I think I enjoy the reimaging part the most! I get to put my own twist on characters that people already know and love.
