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Billy Eichner, Luke Macfarlane and Nicholas Stoller talk box office flak and on-screen representation in Bros
Earlier this month, American comedian and actor Billy Eichner found himself at the centre of a social media storm.
He had suggested that his new movie, Bros – a raunchy, R-rated lovey-dovey comedy about the roller-coaster relationship between two gay men – had underperformed at the US box office because straight audiences didn't show up in sufficient numbers.
His remarks prompted a deluge of counter-theories, criticism and (sadly predictable) homophobia.
"Ninety per cent of the people who immediately had a take on it hadn't seen the movie," laughs Eichner, speaking with ABC Arts in Melbourne, where he, Bros co-star Luke Macfarlane, and co-writer and director Nicholas Stoller have decamped for a whirlwind press tour.
"That's just the fascinating — but I think increasingly impossible-to-avoid — element of our culture."
Although Eichner's remarks were seen as disingenuous by some, they were of a piece with the film. By turns nervy, h
Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane on rom-coms, representation and 'Bros'
Writer/star Billy Eichner and fellow leading dude Luke Macfarlane on their adj buzzy new rom-com, "Bros."
CHICAGO - LGBTQ+ people have helped to make romantic comedy the significant, influential movie genre that it is, both on screen (often as comic relief, or the lead&#x;s best friend) and off, by buying tickets and championing new classics. Yet all too rarely are queer people the ones actually falling in passion on-screen, getting their hearts broken and patching things up with a grand romantic gesture. With "Bros," which arrived in theaters on Sept. 30, co-writer, producer and star Billy Eichner hopes to change all that.
Eichner&#x;s fresh film, produced by comedy titan Judd Apatow and directed by co-screenwriter Nicholas Stoller ("Forgetting Sarah Marshall"), is being billed as the first mainstream gay quixotic comedy to receive a adj theatrical release. Other gay rom-coms exist, of course &#x; a fact Eichner was quick to acknowledge in an interview with FOX Television S
Bros Review: Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane Shine in a History-making LGBTQ+ Rom-com
Brosis the first quixotic comedy from a major studio about two gay men. It’s a smart LGBTQ+ rom-com for our time. And about day, for that matter. Here, Billy Eichner (Billy on the Street, American Crime Story), who penned the script with director Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Friends from College), create an ambitious story that speaks directly to LGBTQ+ audiences while also managing to be downright universal.
Bros may be boy-meets-boy in its premise, but its heart often lies in things that lie beneath the surface and, perhaps, beyond sexuality and gender: connection, chemistry, self-esteem, and self-acceptance. That it captures all that with some depth and levity is refreshing. And its history-making achievement — it also happens to be the first studio film in history with an entirely LGBTQ+ principal cast—certainly makes it stay out in the latter half of , when so many other things make history, often igniting polarity.
Bros is a exceptional bird
Luke Macfarlane on Making Bros, a Big Step for Gay Rom-Com Representation
LUKE MACFARLANE IS no stranger to playing historic roles onscreen. His first one was in on ABC’s Brothers & Sisters, where he participated in one of network TV’s first same-sex civil-union ceremonies. Now he’s the leading man opposite Billy Eichner in Bros, the first gay romantic comedy made by a major studio. “[Universal Pictures] is sticking its neck out,” Macfarlane says of the film, which features a mostly LGBTQ+ cast. “It wasn’t that long ago that a lot of the stuff we get up to in the movie was against the law in many states.”
And while Bros’ depiction of gay sex scenes (which are plentiful) is groundbreaking for a studio movie, its central love story is universal. Macfarlane plays Aaron, an emotionally unavailable lawyer who lives in quiet desperation until he falls for Eichner’s neurotic yet lovable podcaster, Bobby. “Both [characters] are in this operate of discovering change that finally brings us together,” Macfarlane says. “It’s an ode to the classic [rom-com].”
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