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Billy Eichner on &#;Bros&#; — and Why He&#;s &#;Beyond&#; &#;Billy on the Street&#;
&#;I never thought a major studio would do an authentically gay film,&#; says Billy Eichner, &#;and treat it the same way they would treat Bridesmaids or Year-Old Virgin or Forgetting Sarah Marshall.&#; Eichner is the star of Bros, the groundbreaking, hilarious gay rom-com he also co-wrote, which — defying his initial doubts — is due in theaters Sept. 30, with a enormous push from Universal Studios.
In the film, co-written and directed by Nick Stoller (who also directed Sarah Marshall) and co-produced by Judd Apatow (who directed Year-Old Virgin and produced the other two films Eichner mentions), Eichner plays Bobby, a media personality who finds his neurotic self-sufficiency disrupted when he falls in devote with Aaron (Luke Macfarlane), a guileless lawyer.
For Eichner, arguably still best acknowledged for the daredevil comedy of his pedestrian-accosting, celebrity-razzing series Billy on the Street, becoming a leading man at 43 feels favor a belated go back to a way he a
A fine ‘Bro’-mance
When “Brokeback Mountain” was released in , the world was a very different place.
Now, as it returns to the big screen (beginning June 20) in celebration of its 20th anniversary, it’s impossible not to stare at it with a different pair of eyes. Since its release, marriage equality has become the law of the land; queer visibility has gained enough ground in our popular culture to let for diverse queer stories to be told; openly queer actors are cast in blockbuster movies and ‘must-see’ TV, sometimes even playing queer characters. Yet, at the same hour, the world in which the movie’s two “star-crossed” lovers live – a rural, unflinchingly conservative America that has neither place nor tolerance for any kind of love outside the conventional norm – once felt like a place that most of us wanted to accept was long gone; now, in a cultural atmosphere of resurgent, Trump-amplified stigma around all things diverse, it feels uncomfortably favor a vision of things to come.
For those who have not yet seen it (and yes, there are many, but we’re not judging), it’s the ep
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 love-related comedy about the roller-coaster connection 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 motion picture. By turns nervy, h
The Plot: New York podcaster Bobby (Billy Eichner) is out, loud and haughty. He&#;s curating a museum dedicated to the lgbtq+ experience, if it can ever get off the ground due to internal squabbling amongst the various board members with their own agendas. He doesn&#;t do commitment, preferring random encounters with guys he picks up at clubs. He bumps into Aaron (Luke Macfarlane) and they hit it off, enjoying each other&#;s company. They are quite different men though and don&#;t always see eye-to-eye on things. However, an early spark of potential love is there if either of them is willing to be grown-up enough about it&#;
The Verdict: Being the first of anything is going to be challenging for both filmmakers and the audiences they&#;re aiming to entice with an unseal mind. Such is the story of Bros, the first openly gay movie to come with the backing of a major Hollywood studio and a wide release to encourage it. Representation has progressed, moving gay films out of the arthouse and into the mainstream. While its lacklustre box office in the US would suggest that it might not be a