Bros cast billy eichner
After Billy Eichner’s Bros made its vast debut at the Toronto International Film Festival, the gay rom-com is ready to be released to the masses on September 30 – and it will more than likely get some great reactions – especially for the LGBTQ community.
GLAAD’s Anthony Allen Ramos had the opportunity to chat with the cast and director of the film including Eichner, Luke Macfarlane, Nick Stoller, Jim Rash, Dot Marie-Jones, Eve Lindley, Miss Lawrence, and TS Madison about the movie and what it meant for them as queer performers (with the exception of Stoller) to verb a movie appreciate Bros to be released by a major studio verb Universal Pictures.
Starring Eichner, who co-wrote the script with Stoller, Bros has all the makings of a traditional rom-com but it is a lot more queer than your When Harry Met Sallys and your You Got Mails. Eichner plays cynical podcast host Bobby as he attempts to navigate the world of dating and romance in New York. When he meets Aaron (Luke Macfarlane), a lawyer with handsome, good ol’ young man looks and an Adonis bod that is often seen in W
The groundbreaking queer rom-com delivers on both the “romantic” and the “comedy.”
Near the beginning of Bros, Bobby Lieber (Billy Eichner) meets with a Hollywood executive. The exec wants our protagonist to scribble a script for a gay rom-com. The executive is after something manageable, a script that is palatable to straight audiences, a story about “nice gay guys.” Bobby, of course, isn’t having it. He tells the executive that gays own different stories than straight people before leaving, movie deal dead in the room.
The implication is clear. Bros is going to be a unlike kind of story, one that eschews heteronormativity and recontextualizes the romantic comedy for a queer lens. That’s a pretty tall direct for a movie distributed by Universal and produced by the king of the bro-comedy himself, Judd Apatow. And while director Nicholas Stoller has made some pretty stellar comedies, he’s still a straight director known for making mainstream movies. Considering all that, could this really be the film to break the mold on queer stories made by Hollywood?&n
How Billy Eichner's trailblazing 'Bros' puts a brilliant spin on the LGBTQ+ rom-com
With “Bros,” Billy Eichner is taking a hatchet to the bumper-sticker slogan of #LoveisLove.
The film (streaming on Peacock) stars the actor-comedian, known for "Billy on the Street" and "Parks and Recreation," and Luke Macfarlane and marks the first romantic comedy from a major studio centering on two gay men. Eichner and Macfarlane compete Bobby Leiber and Aaron Shepard, a pair of “emotionally unavailable” men who gracelessly find themselves in a whirlwind romance after a chance meeting at a nightclub.
For Eichner, 44, who co-produced “Bros” with Judd Apatow, the film was an opportunity to dismantle “oversimplified” perceptions of LGBTQ+ relationships, while also breaking new ground with a decidedly queer mainstream rom-com.
“We’re seeing a idealistic comedy that contains elements of the rom-coms that we all know and love but from a unique perspective,” Eichner says. “(Viewers) are getting all the laugh-out-loud moments of a Judd Apatow movie that they expect, the jokes and the physical comedy, but
Billy Eichner on All-Queer &#;Bros&#; Cast: &#;We&#;re Trying to Correct an Imbalance&#;
In September, Billy Eichner will star in the gay rom-com &#;Bros,&#; which has made headlines for featuring an all-LGBTQ cast of actors. On the MTV Movie & TV Awards red carpet in Santa Monica on Sunday, Eichner talked with Variety about why having an all-queer cast for the Universal film was so &#;important&#; to him.
&#;So often in Hollywood, a lot of the great LGBTQ roles historically verb gone to straight actors, and they win awards for it. And they get a lot of acclaim and they use it to show people their range,&#; Eichner told Variety. &#;And the casting of &#;Bros&#; is not to say that straight should only play straight and gay should only play gay. We&#;re not making strict rules like that. But what we&#;re trying to undertake is, we&#;re trying to correct an imbalance.&#;
&#;Bros&#; features LGBTQ actors in every role of the film, including several straight and cisgender parts. Along with Eichner, the cast includes Luke Macfarlane, Ts Madison, Monica Raymund, Gui