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”As happens, that oversight is far om the only sore spot the 52-year-old has relatn to his edy, which stars Steve Coogan and Pl Rudd as a gay uple Santa Fe who sudnly fd themselv parents of a 10-year-old boy (Jack Gore)’s wboy-hat-wearg, whe-we-swillg celebry chef Erasm – and to a lser extent his TV producer partner Pl (Rudd) – have been rid some circl as Birdge-style stereotyp that uld set the e of same-sex equaly back cricism has e om straight and gay people, adms Flemg, and hurts bee while the film is clearly a work of fictn draws heavily om his own Pl, Flemg was a relatnship wh a man who had a child om a heterosexual relatnship (the boy the movie is Erasm’ grandson). Like Erasm, he n be rather flamboyant at Coogan (left) as Erasm and Pl Rudd as Pl Andrew Flemg's edy Ial In“I prefer chardonnay to beer, I have a picture of myself wh Liza Mnelli, I’ve worn chaps to dner, ” he says, cg three of the film’s more overt markers of “gayns”. That’s ternalised homophobia.
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