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Contents:
- SPOILER ALERT: IT'S GAY!
- SPOILER ALERT REVIEW – BLAND GAY WEEPIE LEAV DRY EY THE HOE
- JIM PARSONS ON WHY BEG A GAY, ASPIRG ACTOR WHEN ELLEN DEGENER CAME OUT WAS ‘F—G SRY’
- ‘SPOILER ALERT’ REVIEW: A GAY COUPLE GETS THE ‘BIG SICK’ TREATMENT FUNNY-SAD ROM-COM
- JIM PARSONS, BEN ALDRIDGE ON WHY SPOILER ALERT’S GAY LOVE STORY IS UNIVERSAL
SPOILER ALERT: IT'S GAY!
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SPOILER ALERT REVIEW – BLAND GAY WEEPIE LEAV DRY EY THE HOE
And SPOILER ALERT: IT'S GAY!
JIM PARSONS ON WHY BEG A GAY, ASPIRG ACTOR WHEN ELLEN DEGENER CAME OUT WAS ‘F—G SRY’
So much gay. Follow the pod on IG at @GaySpoiler. When Billy Eichner’s poorly marketed yet richly textured gay rom Bros was released earlier this year, the crique om many queer viewers was that wasn’t queer enough.
This month, Spoiler Alert, another broadly accsible story about two men fallg love New York Cy hs and Febary, a gay uple lead M Night Shyamalan’s apolyptic thriller Knock at the Cab, both reassurg signs that the dtry remas at least half-heartedly terted allowg queer characters space the Bros, Spoiler Alert is based on the love life of a nervy, romantilly experienced New York wrer but ’s ls boy-meets-boy and more boy-meets-then-los-boy.
One night, when forced out to a gay bar by a lleague, he meets K (Fleabag’s Ben Aldridge), a handsome and nfint signer and the two start datg. But then K fds out he has a form of ncer and the two are forced to reckon wh the prospect of losg each another year of back-pattg, don’t-blk-and-you’ll-probably-still-miss- blockbter fx-reprentatn, om Glass Onn to Jurassic World: Domn to Doctor Strange the Multiverse of Madns, there is somethg gratifyg seeg two out gay actors playg arguably gay characters dog visibly gay thgs a big movie whout any pearl-clutchg yns.
‘SPOILER ALERT’ REVIEW: A GAY COUPLE GETS THE ‘BIG SICK’ TREATMENT FUNNY-SAD ROM-COM
But praisg Spoiler Alert for what ’s tryg to do rather than what ’s actually dog would be disgenuo, the film likely to lose gay dienc faster than straight a film based on the reali of an actual uple, there’s an overwhelmg lack of lived- specificy to the characters, their relatnship and their sexualy, as if ’s all been ncted by someone whose knowledge of gayns om watchg Queer Eye. Earlier this year, the Universal-backed Bros hoped to go where no major stud edy had gone before by beg the first LGBTQ rom- starrg two out gay actors — Billy Eichner and Le Macfarlane — to top the box office charts. (Some nservative mentators ma siar arguments after Walt Disney's new animated adventure, Strange World — which featured out gay edian, Jaboie Young-Whe, as the pany's first out gay teenager — unrperformed s openg weekend, reportedly stg Disney upwards of $100 ln.
)Flash-forward a few months, and Universal's specialty label, Foc Featur, is releasg s own LGBTQ love story wh out gay actors ont and center: Spoiler Alert, produced by and starrg former Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons. It's a mystery why people turn out for thgs or don't a lot of the time; I don't know that the homosexual aspect of has very much to do wh or not. "For his part, Parsons says he was specifilly drawn to Spoiler Alert bee afford him the opportuny to portray one-half of a gay uple that don't get to live out a picture-perfect "happily every after" story.
"I feel like I've spent so much of my life seeg movi that pict that, but they're not normally about a gay uple. ""And to go through that experience wh Ben, another gay actor, was even more of a profound experience that I expected to be, " Parsons ntu.
JIM PARSONS, BEN ALDRIDGE ON WHY SPOILER ALERT’S GAY LOVE STORY IS UNIVERSAL
“The other thg that was really thrillg to me was that was such a full view of a gay relatnship. I wouldn’t necsarily ll a lot of LGBTQ+ ntent, but there are a lot of gay characters that I get offered. The majory, I would say, that I get offered are gay.