'Bros' movie box office: It's OK to let gay art bomb - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• ‘BROS’ STAR LE MACFARLANE TALKS MASCULY AND GAY INTY
• LE MACFARLANE ‘BROS’: THE HOTTT MOVIE STAR OF THE YEAR IS A GAY MAN. FALLY!
• COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
• BROS REVIEW: A BIG GAY ROM THAT’S A BIG OLD MS

‘BROS’ STAR LE MACFARLANE TALKS MASCULY AND GAY INTY

Bros isn't jt a gay romantic edy, 's a lgh-out-loud, heartfelt, and movg exploratn of LGBTQ+ fluence and universal tth: love is love. Still, the rom- templatg works as subversn — which is an tentnal choice here — as the wrg team provis an unpromisg and simultaneoly charmg exploratn of gay relatnships. He enjoys his life as a self-reliant sgle man and eedom om re (so that he's never disappoted by the gay datg scene).

To that end, Bros isn't jt a gay rom-, 's a ndid exploratn (and unabashed celebratn) of the numerable ways that people exprs and experience love the morn world, and one that acknowledg the untls souls who ma possible to celebrate that love openly — many of whom didn't live long enough to see . In fact, one of Bros' most sightful and self-aware pots aris om Bobby's own stggl wh his place the LGBTQ+ muny as a cisgenr whe gay man a world where sexism, racial stereotyp, body dysmorphia, and genr inty produc extra challeng for his iends to overe that even he nnot fully unrstand.

The LGBTQ romantic edy stars Eichner and Le Macfarlane as a gay uple navigatg the plited onle datg world, wh a few obstacl — and people — thrown along the way.

LE MACFARLANE ‘BROS’: THE HOTTT MOVIE STAR OF THE YEAR IS A GAY MAN. FALLY!

“Everyone who ISN’T a homophobic weirdo should go see BROS tonight! Watch Bros onle now by rentg the gay romantic edy on VOD through Amazon here.

Now, more than a later, the actor will make his theatril film but — the first-ever gay rom- om a major stud (the ma st is entirely ma up of LGBTQ actors).

He stars Universal’s Bros, om Billy Eichner (also the first openly gay man to -wre and star his own major stud film) and director Nicholas Stoller (Neighbors). Their meet-cute happens at a gay club, where a shirtls, ripped, baseball-hatted Aaron mak cheeky nversatn wh the phy and perennially sgle-on-purpose Bobby.

COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB

“When I first read the Bros script, I really nnected wh Aaron on the ia of, where do his masculy f to the gay spectm?

Macfarlane says he me of age, and to the bs, at a time when gay men felt the ways which they were allowed to exprs themselv, and search for succs, were very narrow. “There was somethg about growg up the ’90s, our ias of masculy me om Abercrombie & Fch or Calv Kle ads, and that was very nfg to gay people of a certa age, ” he says, also rellg how an after-school viewg of the Chippendal dancers on The Phil Donahue Show exemplified the emphatilly mascule msagg of the time.

BROS REVIEW: A BIG GAY ROM THAT’S A BIG OLD MS

“It’s about more than gettg gay people out to see the movie, ” says Macfarlane. Given what we’re discsg—the explic sex scen and filthy, flirty dialogue between gay men that happens the new movie Bros— the next words that e out of his mouth are unexpected: “I’ve kissed a lot of women on Hallmark. Is a Big Gay Deal, and Macfarlane and I have nvened to talk about Big Gay Thgs.

It’s the first major stud theatril release starrg two gay men as the love terts. Universal PicturMacfarlane me out publicly as gay durg the n of Brothers & Sisters. ) He was acplishg exactly what Hollywood suggted was impossible for out gay actors.

And I hope that that sort of crossover between gay and straight be easier for for queer actors movg forward.