Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, Jennifer Coolidge and Kathy Najimy talk to ET about starrg Netflix's gay, Christmas rom-.
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- HOW THE FOUL-MOUTHED WEDDG SGER OM OLD SCHOOL END UP NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY HOLIDAY ROM
- SGLE ALL THE WAY CAST: GAY CHRISTMAS ROMCOM HAS LGBTQ CAST MEMBERS
- NETFLIX LANDS GAY HOLIDAY ROM-COM ‘SGLE ALL THE WAY’ FROM TONY-WNG DIRECTOR MICHAEL MAYER
HOW THE FOUL-MOUTHED WEDDG SGER OM OLD SCHOOL END UP NETFLIX'S FIRST GAY HOLIDAY ROM
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Remiscent of a Hallmark Channel holiday flick and directed by Tony wner Michael Mayer, Sgle All the Way stars a stacked st that clus Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, Le MacFarlane, Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Robertson, and edy ins Jennifer Coolidge and Kathy Najimy, tellg the story of a gay man named Peter who is "sperate to avoid his fay's judgment about his perpetual sgle stat, " acrdg to the film's official -- and credibly relatable -- scriptn.
Out got the chance to chat wh some of the film's stars, cludg Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, Kathy Najimy, and Jennifer Coolidge to chat about queerg up a movie genre that is typilly super straight, Jennifer Coolidge's gay in stat, and more! "When you're growg up, when you're jt a kid and you're jt tryg to survive, you know, the group of people that you gravate toward and you choose for yourself, even though 's not even a nsc choice, 's like, was always the gay world, " Jennifer Coolidge told Out, reflectg on the lover her gay fanbase has for her and gettg to brg that to her role as the wacky Aunt Sandy Sgle All the Way. "I loved that actually sort of, you know, full circle now that I'm dog a movie where 's a story beg told that isn''s no sort of mentary about on this film about 'The two guys are gay and n you believe ??
""Like Jennifer said, I thk we both were attracted to the script that had two gay leads and was a gay love story, three gay leads actually, " Kathy Najimy add. "And was a gay love story, and wasn't about all the people who hated them or the people who thought that their relign said that you shouldn't be how you were ma.
SGLE ALL THE WAY CAST: GAY CHRISTMAS ROMCOM HAS LGBTQ CAST MEMBERS
Remarkably, Sgle All the Way is only the first gay holiday rom- Netflix has distributed, and the fact that featur gay actors playg gay characters is a wele bon. Jennifer Coolidge as Aunt Sandy - Netflix's first gay holiday rom- wouldn't be plete whout the inic Jennifer Coolidge. Sgle All the Way explor the iendship between two gay men durg the holiday season.
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Jog the recently expand non of LGBTQ holiday movi is Netflix’s Sgle All the Way, the platform’s first gay, Christmas romantic edy starrg Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers and Le Macfarlane. “It is a movie whout homophobia, whout shame, and nobody out. And then also to see what ’s like when gay people have problems that straight people have.
NETFLIX LANDS GAY HOLIDAY ROM-COM ‘SGLE ALL THE WAY’ FROM TONY-WNG DIRECTOR MICHAEL MAYER
” Addnally, this movie explor gay male iendships not often portrayed onscreen. “And then I really liked that was a Christmas movie that was about gay men, but didn’t ment about gay men. 'Sgle All the Way': Watch the Trailer for the Gay Holiday Rom-Com.
Although he says Christmas movi are more up his partner’s alley, Urie regniz the signifince of appearg a Netflix holiday film wh a gay uple at the center. “It is a world void of homophobia, ” he says. “There is never a moment this movie when anyone is worried about beg gay or ashamed of beg gay.
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