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BILLY EICHNER WANTED ‘BROS’ TO STAR ‘GAY RYAN REYNOLDS,’ EMBODY ‘TOM HANKS AND MEG RYAN’ ROM-COM
“Bros, ” the meta all-queer rom- om “Fettg Sarah Marshall” scrib Billy Eichner and Nicholas Stoller, wanted to fd the next “openly gay Ryan Reynolds or an openly gay Pl Rudd” to play the love tert oppose Eichner’s lead. “I jt assumed that my love tert had to be played by a big movie star, which would mean a straight man bee we don’t have any openly gay movie stars Ameri, ” Eichner told Entertament Weekly about stg the film, out September 20. “We have TV stars, a lot of openly gay actors, but a movie star…”.
Eichner ntued, “We’ve never had an openly gay Ryan Reynolds, or an openly gay Pl Rudd, or an openly gay Kev Hart, they jt do not exist. “Bros” also don’t shy away om showg real relatnships onscreen, unlike the “two-dimensnal and very not threateng” TV kd of male gay romanc that Eichner scribed as “sexls. ” Or, a te vixen/virg fashn, gay men are portrayed as “pletely obssed wh sex and dgs” as another extreme.
This is not as simple as dog ‘When Harry Met Sally’ or some Hallmark Christmas movi and jt swappg two gay guys for the straight uple and havg everythg play out the same way, ” the “Billy on the Street” star explaed.