The first time Joel Kim Booster vatned on New York's Fire Island wh his iend, edian Bowen Yang, he brought wh him Jane Aten's Pri and Prejudice as a beach read. Over the years, he'd often joke wh iends about makg a gay versn of the novel. Today Booster is the wrer and star of Hulu's Fire Island, a queer, Asian rom based on Aten's classic, set the tular gay vatn spot. Booster talks wh gut host Elise Hu about how the film honors his queer iendships, subverts hetero rom norms, and tells a personal story that feels universal. You n follow on Twter @NPRItsBeenAM and email at
Contents:
- A MORN GAY TAKE ON 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' IS HEADG YOUR WAY
- ‘FIRE ISLAND’ REVIEW: JOEL KIM BOOSTER’S LIVELY GAY ROM-COM PUTS THE PRI ‘PRI AND PREJUDICE’
- GAY PRI (AND PREJUDICE)
- SPOTIFY’S ‘GAY PRI & PREJUDICE’ MARRI A BELOVED CLASSIC WH QUEER STORI AND SCRIPTED FICTN PODSTS
- JANE ATEN MEETS MARRIAGE EQUALY GAY PRI & PREJUDICE PODST
- 'FIRE ISLAND' TRAILER: 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' GO GAY WH JOEL KIM BOOSTER, BOWEN YANG
- 'FIRE ISLAND:' THE GAY ASIAN 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' ROM-COM YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU NEED, STARRG A RIPPED JOEL KIM BOOSTER AND ADORABLE BOWEN YANG
- "ASIAN" MEN ON THE SCENE: CHALLENG TO "GAY MUNI"
- GAY PRI (AND PREJUDICE)
- 'GAY PRI & PREJUDICE' TRAILER: JSE TYLER FERGON PREVIEWS NEW JANE ATEN ADAPTATN (EXCLIVE)
- GAY PRI & PREJUDICE CREATORS ON UPDATG JANE ATEN FOR THE PODST AGE
A MORN GAY TAKE ON 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' IS HEADG YOUR WAY
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Over the years, he'd often joke wh iends about makg a gay versn of the novel. Today Booster is the wrer and star of Hulu's Fire Island, a queer, Asian rom based on Aten's classic, set the tular gay vatn spot. Jane Aten ’s Pri and Prejudice gets transported to the Amerin South “Before the Fall, ” a morn, gay-themed “reimagg” of the lerary classic.
“Appalachia is nsistently picted on film as homophobic and vlent [but] the real world is much more plex than the stereotyp, ” he said. Ultimately, Geiser hop viewers will be remd that “the basic human need to experience life wh the person you love is the same basic need for both straight and gay people” after viewg his film, which premiered at Reelg: The Chigo LGBTQ Internatnal Film Ftival September. “I feel a huge rponsibily as a filmmaker to prent gay characters who generate a strong, emotnal nnectn wh the dience, ” he said, “and who provi the dience wh an opportuny to abandon prejudic.
‘FIRE ISLAND’ REVIEW: JOEL KIM BOOSTER’S LIVELY GAY ROM-COM PUTS THE PRI ‘PRI AND PREJUDICE’
Joel Kim Booster's gay rom- 'Fire Island' transplants Jane Aten to the cisy queer enclave, -starrg Bowen Yang and Margaret Cho. * gay asian pride and prejudice *
This film is scribed as a morn gay take on the classic story. ) Gay movi have their formulas, too, few of which end marriage. Right the spot where gay men flee to fd no-strgs fun, sun and sex.
Takg a page om “Cluels, ” Booster had the bright ia to update a key Aten classic, puttg the gay Asian pri “Pri and Prejudice” — where nothg of the sort ever existed before — wh the help of “Spa Night” director Andrew Ahn. By settg his unapologetilly queer take on the eponymo gay enclave, he giv dienc who’ve never been there a taste of a place where LGBT folks aren’t at the mercy of the majory; they are the majory. The lghs start right out of the gate, as an off-key gay men’s chos performs the stud’s fanfare.
Not all gay men are wired that way, as Yang’s more romantilly cled (and ls abdomally fed) character woefully remds him. There are plenty of gay folks who aren’t fortable at gay clubs, and to them, I always say: “You assume that everyone go out lookg for the same thg, but if you’re here and you don’t relate, there are sure to be others who feel the way you do.
GAY PRI (AND PREJUDICE)
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SPOTIFY’S ‘GAY PRI & PREJUDICE’ MARRI A BELOVED CLASSIC WH QUEER STORI AND SCRIPTED FICTN PODSTS
I'm not sure what I expected when gog to the screeng for 'Fire Island,' but the morn-day adaptatn of Pri and Prejudice proved to be the fun summer rom- that simultaneoly warmed my heart and lent me sight to the plexi of datg as a gay man. * gay asian pride and prejudice *
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JANE ATEN MEETS MARRIAGE EQUALY GAY PRI & PREJUDICE PODST
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'FIRE ISLAND' TRAILER: 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' GO GAY WH JOEL KIM BOOSTER, BOWEN YANG
” What Noah don’t is that the plot of Fire Island is based on Aten’s novel of 1813, though he told Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, hosts of the reigng gay podst Las Culturistas, who are also his stars Fire Island, that “we’ve got our gay Darcy! “It wasn’t until I went to Fire Island for the first time that I actually brought the book wh me to read for the first time, and I was so stck by how relevant actually felt to my experience … navigatg the weird class systems that gay men created for themselv.
'FIRE ISLAND:' THE GAY ASIAN 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' ROM-COM YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU NEED, STARRG A RIPPED JOEL KIM BOOSTER AND ADORABLE BOWEN YANG
What do Booster mean by “weird class systems, ” and how do he reprent his journey as an openly gay Asian-Amerin man? Conrad Riora ( the role of Will) is the gay Darcy to Noah’s Elizabeth, and the name play is gen as rears of Pri and Prejudice learn, late the novel, that Darcy’s Christian name is Fzwilliam. ” As the new “gay Darcy, ” Riora plays Will nvcgly as ede and aloof, the perfect embodiment of what Aten scribed as Darcy’s “unsocial [and]tacurn disposn.
Fire Island is not the first gay film to reimage Aten’s most popular romance. Photo: The st and crew of Gay Pri & Prejudice (L-R Ronald Peet, Vella Lovell, Zackary Grady, Jse Tyler Fergon, Jt Mika, Blake Lee) on the red rpet ahead of their Tribe Film Ftival Panel: “A Romantic Comedy Event: Gay Pri and Prejudice. Supreme Court lg favor of gay marriage, set out to work on a script for a queer, morn stage adaptatn.
Around the start of the panmic, his ia transned om one on the stage to a fully dory performance—spurrg the new fictn podst Gay Pri & Prejudice. The Spotify Origal podst and Gimlet productn follows Ben, a 30-somethg gay man navigatg datg and avoidg mment Boston, over the urse of a year.
"ASIAN" MEN ON THE SCENE: CHALLENG TO "GAY MUNI"
Gay Pri & Prejudice buted time for Pri Month and new episos are released every Wednday.
“Gay Pri & Prejudice tak place om June 2015 to June 2016, so is a perd piece, ” Zackary told For the Rerd.
GAY PRI (AND PREJUDICE)
Zackary’s first imprsn of Pri and Prejudice was that was “very gay” s origal tellg.
'GAY PRI & PREJUDICE' TRAILER: JSE TYLER FERGON PREVIEWS NEW JANE ATEN ADAPTATN (EXCLIVE)
Oh, so they’re gay, ” he joked. The entire st, though, is clear-eyed about the relevance of Gay Pri & Prejudice’s settg today.
Fans who listen to Gay Pri & Prejudice will enunter a st of characters who reprent many facets of the LGBTQ muny—and give a voice not only to different rac and sexuali, but also to those who are HIV+.
Some of the characters even flipped mon nventns—such as the gay bt iend trope—on their heads.
GAY PRI & PREJUDICE CREATORS ON UPDATG JANE ATEN FOR THE PODST AGE
Gay Pri & Prejudice is part of a more recent trend embracg celebratory, over-the-top, and even satiril pictns of queer life and muny mastream media. The gays serve a romp.