Contents:
- 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
- THE GAY STER SERI
- JONATHAN BENT SAYS THE HOLIDAY STER IS THE GAY VERSN OF THIS '80S CLASSIC - EXCLIVE
- “THE HOLIDAY STER” IS GAY HOLIDAY GOODNS
- MAKE THE YULETI GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THIS YEAR'S LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVI
THE HOLIDAY STER: 7+ THOUGHTS I HAD WHILE WATCHG HALLMARK'S NEW GAY ROM-COM
In 2020, Hallmark buted s first same-sex uple, and now the work’s evolutn has led to an entire rom- wh a gay uple as the foc. 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. Clearly, The Holiday Ster was always wrten (or at least altered) wh a gay uple md.
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?
JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
Sam is beg really thentic to what 's like beg a gay man 2022 and what that experience is. 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.
Like, "Oh wow, he is gay. Hallmark is ready to make history wh The Holiday Ster, the work’s first-ever holiday rom wh a gay uple the lead rol.
THE GAY STER SERI
Sam postpon his holiday Hawaii and hightails to the suburbs where he meets Jason DeVo (Gee Krissa), Kathleen’s handsome, sgle, and gay neighbor. You uld also wa until Friday, December 16 and pair The Holiday Ster wh Lifetime’s gay romance Christmas movie, A Christmas to Treasure (starrg real life spo Taylor Frey and Kyle Dean Massey).
JONATHAN BENT SAYS THE HOLIDAY STER IS THE GAY VERSN OF THIS '80S CLASSIC - EXCLIVE
Like I said about The Christmas Hoe 2020, cludg queer people (which, BTW, should clu more than jt cis, whe, gay men) fay ntent like holiday movi helps the “gay agenda” tremendoly — the “gay agenda” beg wantg to… ntue to exist. The other major succs: this is a storyle that uld only be done wh a gay uple.
The Holiday Ster is a Christmas movie about the credibly unique bond between gay men and their niec and nephews — fay members who have long stood for children due to the hurdl facg gay upl or gay men lookg to adopt.
“THE HOLIDAY STER” IS GAY HOLIDAY GOODNS
Hallmark has donned the gay apparel, y’all.
Also, alt wh a prevalent issue many kids' liv, g out as gay.
What Max ref to regnize is he is a latent gay tennci. Jonah Hill livers another funny performance, but the real surprise for me was the shockg pro-gay msage featurg one of the first kid-related gay story l a mastream film. I gus I was so surprised bee gay ntent is rarely alt wh so refully a Hollywood film marketed toward young adults, and I have to say I was really imprsed.
MAKE THE YULETI GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THIS YEAR'S LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVI
Even Sam Rockwell is awome as a crazy uld-be-gay dg aler who chas the ster and the children all across town. The movi first half is basilly a barrage of stologil, urary, and gay panic jok which are set up poorly no sense of ic ictn or much the way of payoff. Dpe beg a edy movie wh a lot of chaos as practilly everythg go wrong when Noah Griffh tak the kids he's babystg on a road trip to get some dgs for his 'girliend' this movie shows a lot of character growth and has a very good 'moral' behd stance, Noah tells Slater of how he has realised that Slater don't have any big problems and that he is actually gay.
Noah helps Slater a lot his acceptance of his sexualy by tellg him how llege no one will re and how is perfectly okay to be gay. Noah (Jonah Hill) do much of the polilly-rrect heavy liftg while the kids stick to flatulence, gro punch, and world-wears to make Noah seem downright naï is on spensn om llege when he is reced to s for three eccentric kids; Slater (Max Rerds), a pubcent, gymnastics-viewg, jt emergg gay boy; a kick-butt tween, Blhe (Landry Benr), who fds a few too many hotti, cludg round Jonah; and a very young, adopted El Salvadoran, Rodrigo (Kev Hernanz), who has a surly attu and a penchant for explosiv.
A bratty ltle girl who foul language (yeah, that would have been funnier if I were seven), a super emotnal pre-teen boy whose storyle attempts to bee sentimental, but verg on borrle homophobic, and a stereotypil Lat kid who thks he's Srface, do not a film make! Jt focg on the ster and the three kids: the ster, Noah (Jonah Hill), was a foul-mouth slacker, the adopted El Salvadorian son (Kev Balmore) was a gangster trag, the thirteen-year-old son (Max Rerds) was gay (no agenda there), and the seven-year-old girl (Landry Benr) was a makp wearg clout chaser. The Gay Ster Seri by Barry Head.