'Bros' trailer: Billy Eichner to lead first gay rom- by a major stud

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“So I thk maybe askg some of our straight iends to watch a gay uple fall love and cry and lgh and take somethg om , too. Universal Pictur released Wednday the trailer for “Bros, ” the first gay romantic edy to premiere by a major gay rom- was wrten by and stars Billy Eichner, makg the edian and four-time Emmy nomated actor the first openly gay man to ever wre and star his own major stud film. "While ’s sane to me that took this long to get this movie ma, ’s still credibly excg to me — and a real sign of progrs — that the same stud makg movi like 'Jurassic World' and 'The Fast and the Fur' is also releasg this R rated gay rom wh an all LGBTQ+ st, and wh as much passn and enthiasm as they release those other films, " Eichner wrote.

"Nile Rivelli / Universal PicturDirected by Nicholas Stoller, "Bros" featur Eichner playg an openly gay man, Bobby, who stggl "to fd another tolerable human beg to go through life wh.

In the trailer, Eichner's character is seen talkg on a podst about his experience meetg wh Hollywood producers about creatg a romantic film about gay people that "a straight guy might even like.

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""They said: 'We jt want a movie that shows the world that gay relatnships and straight relatnships are the same. “Bros, ” which has been hotly anticipated as the first big-stud R-rated gay rom-, fely has universal appeal, if your universe happens to clu anyone navigatg the vagari of love, lt and generatnal change. But like any succsful edy — or movie, for that matter — “Bros” succeeds s specificy: this se, gay life and culture that are brimmg wh foibl, ntradictns, triumphs and failur jt wag to be med for ic gold.

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He plays Bobby Leiber, a cynil New York podster whose expertise is hidn gay histori and whose latt project is openg a mm dited to same.

No sooner is he liverg an impassned stemwr on “the erasure of gay love over centuri” than he’s cuttg to his daily life on Grdr, where the banal “Hey, what’s up?

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“I support them, but I don’t tst them, ” he says of his fellow gay men at one pot. One of Bobby’s funnit observatns is the untapped market for an app aimed at gay men “who jt want to talk actrs and go to sleep. Whereas Apatow’s past films have clud their share of lame homophobic humor, here he lends his expertise to icky sight gags volvg masturbatn and one of the most hilar group sex scen possibly ever mted to s -jok, badage-y dialogue and pacey edg, “Bros” mak for a breezy sendup of everythg om the earnt excs of inty polics — one of Bobby’s mm board members wants a display like the blue whale at the Mm of Natural History “except ’s a lbian” — to throupl and the rentments of agg boomers and Gen Xers toward their lennial lleagu.

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The movie is already settg makg history, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter, wh an entire st of LGBTQ+ dividuals, and Eichner himself is officially the first openly gay man to wre and star a major motn picture. Out Magaze has offered Diaz ample praise for his forward reprentatn of the LGBTQ+ muny and named him one of the top 100 most fluential gay men of 2013.

At the begng of “Bros, ” a popular podster named Bobby (Billy Eichner) tells his listeners that he was recently asked for feedback on a gay romantic edy — one that was pched to him as a sweet, funny, accsible movie that would appeal to straight and gay dienc alike.

Gay and straight experienc aren’t terchangeable, he says, and ’s ridiculo to expect the former to nform to Hollywood’s monogamy-md feel-good imperativ. They’re at a lnch party for a gay datg app (the name of which alone is worth the price of admissn), though neher Bobby nor Aaron is really lookg for actn, let alone somethg more ser. ”) But the movie, takg s cu om Bobby’s expertise, mov past breezy Apatovian allivens to a realm of media cricism as snarky as is are jok about a TV work’s cynil explosn of queer-themed output (“A Holly, Poly Christmas” is one of the better on) and affectnate eye rolls at the sanized, sentimentalized pictns of gay men on “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” and “Scht’s Creek.

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” There are also jabs at prtige dramas like “Brokeback Mounta” and “Milk, ” maly for their Osr-iendly practice of stg straight actors as gay characters sted for tragedy. Though hardly the only gay romantic edy of note to emerge recent months (like Hulu’s “Fire Island, ” whose Bowen Yang pops up here as a lofty Provcetown lnaire), do boast the notable big-stud precent of an entirely LGBTQ prcipal st, albe one whose racial and sexual diversy happens to prop up a love story between two whe, cisgenr, gay men — somethg the movie acknowledg wh both a wk and a wce. Dpe a mass marketg mpaign, distributn 3, 350 theaters natnwi, and boastg of beg the first gay rom- wh a st pletely prised of openly LGBTQ stars, the film was unable to draw dienc.

What’s also te is that at one pot a theater cha lled Universal and said they were pullg the trailer bee of the gay ntent.

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However, the actor went on to suate that homophobia uld be the source of reluctance for moviegoers as he touted the “uniquely powerful” film that he noted would ronate most wh “queer folks. “Everyone who ISN’T a homophobic weirdo should go see BROS tonight!

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However, not unnoticed was the wild succs of prev gay-centered stori marketed to mass dienc like the 1996 h “The Birdge” which opened ls than 2, 000 theaters and ma $124 ln Amerin theaters (nearly $250 ln when adjted for flatn) and the s “Will & Grace” which ran for eight nsecutive seasons before returng for three more after a more than ten-year hiat. While may be filled wh humor that a wi-rangg dience uld appreciate, BlazeTV host Steve Deace may have summed up the reason for the “Bros” lacklter release when he ntend, “What this likely tells is when homosexualy is packaged as wty and charmg–like the trailblazg Will and Grace– n have wi mastream appeal when done well.

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