Aussie Duckie Thot stars in all-PoC Pirelli calendar
![Australian model Duckie Thot poses for the 2018 Pirelli Calendar.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170721044005im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/x/f/m/c/i/image.related.landscape.120x80.gxflsz.png/1500591507456.png)
On a muggy afternoon in May, in a heavily guarded studio hidden along a nondescript industrial North London back road, RuPaul, the actor, drag queen and TV personality, was holding court inside a padded box, wearing a resplendent scarlet red ball gown from which oversize playing cards tumbled from the voluminous skirt. Inches away, actor Djimon Hounsou stood staring, shirtless, sporting a gold crown and pinstripe trousers.