The edian and star of "Billy on the Street" is the first openly gay man to -wre and star a gay romantic edy for a major movie stud. He talks about why 's taken so long for Hollywood to produce a rom- featurg an all-LGBTQ prcipal st.
Contents:
- THE SUBVERSIVE GAY SATIRE OF BILLY ON THE STREET
- BILLY EICHNER ON HIS GAY ROM- "BROS"
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
- DO GAY PEOPLE CARE ABOUT JOHN OLIVER? WH JOHN OLIVER
THE SUBVERSIVE GAY SATIRE OF BILLY ON THE STREET
"I'm never gog to do half-hour episos of 'Billy on the Street' aga," says Eichner, whose gay rom- 'Bros' is due September. * is billy on the street gay *
"I'm never gog to do half-hour episos of Billy on the Street aga, " says Eichner, who also reveals plans for his next project: a gay-divorce edy.
“I never thought a major stud would do an thentilly gay film, ” says Billy Eichner, “and treat the same way they would treat Brismaids or 40-Year-Old Virg or Fettg Sarah Marshall.
” Eichner is the star of Bros, the groundbreakg, hilar gay rom- he also -wrote, which — fyg his ial doubts — is due theaters Sept. “You don’t s there as a kid thkg, ‘Oh, I uld be the star of this movie, if only I wasn’t gay, '” he says. Bobby’s openg rant, excerpted the movie’s first trailer, is a brilliantly meta attack on the ia of makg a gay movie that’d make straight guys fortable.
BILLY EICHNER ON HIS GAY ROM- "BROS"
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For me, and a lot of my iends, when we watch some of those shows, although there are gay characters, we don’t regnize those people.
There’s an archns to so many of the gay male characters we get.
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
Coronatn Street is gearg up for 's first gay marriage storyle, wh weddg bells store for Weatherfield uple Pl Foreman and Billy Mayhew. * is billy on the street gay *
I’m my forti, and I look around at movi general — about straight people, about gay people, pecially edi — and say, “Where are the adults? Bee y, we’re gay. Nick Stoller is a straight guy; you said that he tght you how to wre a movie and you tght him about gay culture.
Whereas gay men make up our own l, we create our own fai. As much as I love those movi, for gay people, pecially gay men, they never applied and they certaly don’t apply now. I wrote all the segments, and they were very topil — they took on polics and pop culture, and I was very open about beg gay.
There was a sketch that got very specific about gay sex, and straight sex, was lled “Sex Talk. ” To get onstage 2003 and talk explicly about gay sex, even New York Cy, was really phg people outsi of their fort zon. You’ve said that you never experienced homophobia until you entered the entertament bs.
DO GAY PEOPLE CARE ABOUT JOHN OLIVER? WH JOHN OLIVER
Can you make a ltle ls gay this month? And I’m not sayg they were dyg for me to be gay, or absolutely thrilled that I was gay, but they knew who I was really early on.
There’s a part Bros where a teacher qutns whether elementary-school kids are old enough to learn about gay history.