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Billy Eichner’s “Bros” Kind or Harmful LGBTQIA+ Representation?
Im Lucy and Im a film studies major and a creative writing minor at Winona State University. This semester Ill be releasing content for my series Helpful or Harmful? The Depiction of LGBTQIA+ People in Contemporary Film. I will be critiquing the depiction of the LGBTQIA+ community in movies today as a member of the community myself. I hope youll stick around! Ill be releasing adj content every Friday alternating between written and video film reviews!
Bros is a comedy written and directed by Nicolas Stoller, as well as written by and starring Billy Eichner as Bobby Leiber, a podcast host who has become bored with hookup culture but has never been able to maintain a grave relationship. He meets Aaron (Luke Macfarlane) who is facing a similar dilemma. Bonding over their commitment issues, Aaron and Bobby discover themselves drawn to each other and end up developing a relationship that might actually terminate up being more than a hookup. This sex positive film is
'Bros' writer, Northwestern University graduate Billy Eichner talks new LGBTQ+ romantic comedy
CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Bros" is a romantic comedy about two men bungling their way into falling in love.
It opens on Thursday night. Billy Eichner wrote the story, and costars in the film with Luke Macfarlane. ABC7'S Hosea Sanders spoke with them about breaking unused ground with the film.
"Bros" tells the story of Bobby and Aaron trying to become a couple, but the courtship is chaos.
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"The entire cast of the movie is openly LGBTQ, even in the straight roles, which you really never see," Eichner said. "I've been an openly gay actor all of life, my whole career. There are certain challenges that come along with that. Sometimes you are excluded from mainstream comedies enjoy this, or mainstream projects in general. So, I wanted to use whatever power I had in this scenario to lift up other people in the community with me and donate
Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane open up about Bros
The fresh Hollywood romcom, “Bros,” wittily answers the question: What if two men who pretty much swear off relationships arise to fall into one?
Bobby Leiber (co-writer Billy Eichner) is an executive at a Recent York LGBTQ history museum who meets probate lawyer Aaron Shepard (Luke Macfarlane) at a club one night. The guys hit it off well enough that they both want more — but that more can sometimes indicate other guys. (“Bros” is notable for featuring not one, but two very funny fourgies).
But after Bobby and Aaron decide to notify it a relationship, trouble ensues when Bobby creates reliance issues for Aaron, most notably during a visit from Aaron’s family. Can these two guys come together without driving each other away?
Gay City News chatted with Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane about their new film.
It was great to see such a large and diverse queer cast. How did that enhance making “Bros?”
Billy Eichner: Because the whole cast is LGBTQ, and because we [indicating himself and Luke] are openly gay actors and have been
Billy Eichner’s Curious Claims About Bros
At MTV’s Video Music Awards in August, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision and subsequent fears over what it presaged for other “settled law” like marriage equality, Billy Eichner issued a bold call to arms. “I need you all there in theaters on Sept. 30,” he commanded the audience, summoning it to the release of his new movie, Bros. “We need to show all the homophobes like Clarence Thomas and all the homophobes on the Supreme Court that we verb gay love stories and we assist LGBTQ people. And we are not letting them drag us back into the last century, because they are past, and Bros is the future! Are you with me, VMAs?!”
Bros is the first gay romantic comedy co-written by and starring a gay dude to be backed by a major studio (Universal) and receive a extensive theatrical distribution. It also features an almost entirely LGBTQ—and quite talented—cast, even in the straight roles. While its director, Nicholas Stoller, has churned out reliably crude-yet-sweet R-rated comedies like The Five-Year Engagement and Neighbor