Jonathan Bent Talks Starrg Hallmark's 1st Gay-Led Holiday Film

Contents:

• JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
• HALLMARK JOS 21ST CENTURY WH FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS FILM – AND, Y, STARS JONATHAN BENT
• 12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY
• HALLMARK'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE IS HERE — AND GEE KRISSA IS OVERJOYED TO BE A PART OF
• MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
• ‘TIS THE SEASON FOR GAY CHRISTMAS MOVI
• THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY
• THE HALLMARK CHANNEL'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE STARS 'MEAN GIRLS' JONATHAN BENT

JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER

The Hallmark Channel is gettg to the gay Christmas a part of s Countdown to Christmas event, Hallmark Channel has announced s first Christmas movie that foc on a gay Holiday Ster will be released on December 11 on The Hallmark Channel and will star Mean Girls alum Jonathan Bent, Gee Krissa, and Chelsea — Becky VanValkenburg (@Becky VanValkenburg).

HALLMARK JOS 21ST CENTURY WH FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS FILM – AND, Y, STARS JONATHAN BENT

He mak the trip wh his hband Jake, played by Brad Harr, and the pair wa to hear about the possible adoptn of their first 's only September, but wh Hallmark announcg s slate of holiday movi, and other platforms like Netflix, Disney+ and Lifetime havg also announced holiday movi and specials, so far, The Holiday Ster is the only one to foc on gay characters. Startg 2020, Christmas was for the gays.

12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY

RELATED | 23 Christmas Songs by LGBTQ+ Artists to Make the Yuleti Gay. In the movie, which buts Sunday, Bent plays Sam, a gay guy whose personal life suffers at the st of his profsnal life — work over marriage. '" Add to the formula the actor's love of the '80s classic Uncle Buck starrg John Candy, pl his sire to see a movie that was "really thentic to what 's like beg a gay man 2022.

HALLMARK'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE IS HERE — AND GEE KRISSA IS OVERJOYED TO BE A PART OF

" And that turned to me and my love for Uncle Buck, the movie wh John Candy that I grew up on, and I kd of put those ias together and I said, "What if Uncle Buck was gay? Sam is beg really thentic to what 's like beg a gay man 2022 and what that experience is.

MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI

As gay men, we're navigatg what our liv look like wh kids, or gettg married, or whout kids, and 's not black or whe — there's so many different avenu to startg a fay and havg a chosen fay. Somethg I found so funny is how Sam realiz that Jason is gay — when Jason ments on Sam's sho.

‘TIS THE SEASON FOR GAY CHRISTMAS MOVI

Like, "Oh wow, he is gay.

THE BT QUEER HOLIDAY MOVI TO MAKE THE YULETI GAY

A married uple (Treat Williams and Sharon Lawrence) v their adult children, cludg gay son Brandon (Jonathan Bent) and his partner (Brad Hardner), to stay wh them the weeks leadg up to Christmas to revis the old fay tradn of transformg their childhood home to "The Christmas Hoe" — a procs that means extensively ratg the home for the Christmas holiday for what uld possibly be the last "The Christmas Hoe" has a sequel, 's not nearly as good as the origal.

Bent posted on Instagram to share his excement for the film, sayg “will make history as the first leadg gay uple a Hallmark Christmas move ever”. The announcement of this trailblazg productn follows gay Twter llg out for Hallmark Channel to clu LGBTQ+ characters s films 2019. In that same year, The Wrap reported that, of the channel’s 40 new ftive films, not one featured a gay lead.

THE HALLMARK CHANNEL'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE STARS 'MEAN GIRLS' JONATHAN BENT

TV holiday rom-s have bee a ttage dtry over the last 20 years, so some may be surprised ’s taken this long for Hallmark and Lifetime to send jad gay urban home for Christmas to fd the love of their mastream holiday movi are largely aimed at straight women, wh predictable plots and sackfuls of stereotyp about relatnships, genr rol, fay and “the te meang of Christmas.