Contents:
- JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
- HALLMARK'S 'HOLIDAY STER' SHOWS -STARS' SPARKS S FIRST GAY LEADS HOLIDAY MOVIE
- THE HOLIDAY STER: 7+ THOUGHTS I HAD WHILE WATCHG HALLMARK'S NEW GAY ROM-COM
JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
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. " 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?
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HALLMARK'S 'HOLIDAY STER' SHOWS -STARS' SPARKS S FIRST GAY LEADS HOLIDAY MOVIE
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The film marks Hallmark’s first to be centered on a gay romance—yet ’s nowhere near the only diverse story the pany’s 2022 Holiday Ster stars and was nceived by Jonathan Bent, bt known as the teen heartthrob Mean Girls. “I am the gay uncle to so many of my chosen-fay niec and nephews, ” Bent tells Fast Company.
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THE HOLIDAY STER: 7+ THOUGHTS I HAD WHILE WATCHG HALLMARK'S NEW GAY ROM-COM
The Holiday Ster buted on Hallmark on December Christmas Hoe was the first Hallmark movie to feature a gay uple promently, but The Holiday Ster is their first film centered around a gay uple.
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