Comedian Billy Eichner unveils a softer but no ls high-stng versn of himself “Bros,” his new Judd Apatow-produced stud rom- about two gay men “maybe, possibly, probably, stumblg towards love. Maybe. They’re both very by.”
Contents:
- HOLLYWOOD IS ‘SO HYPOCRIL’: BILLY EICHNER OPENS UP ABOUT BEG AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR
- OPENLY GAY BILLY EICHNER SAYS HE WAS ONCE BLD TO HOMOPHOBIA - WHO'S HIS PARTNER?
- BILLY EICHNER IS THE FIRST GAY MAN EVER
- IS BILLY EICHNER MARRIED: IS BILLY EICHNER A GAY MAN? IS HE WH SOMEONE? DISVER MORE ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE
- BILLY EICHNER CLAIMS HOLLYWOOD PASSED ON HIM BEE HE IS ‘TOO GAY’
- BILLY EICHNER BLAM STRAIGHT PEOPLE FOR DISMAL OPENG OF GAY ROM ‘BROS’
- ‘BROS’ REVIEW: BILLY EICHNER IS A GLOR ROM- LEAD BY CAROLE SIE PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 ENTERTAMENT FOX TV DIGAL TEAM SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE (OM LEFT) AARON (LE MACFARLANE) AND BOBBY (BILLY EICHNER) BROS, -WRTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS STOLLER. PHOTO CRED: UNIVERSAL PICTUR CHICAGO - STEP ASI, HUGH GRANT AND DIANE KEATON, THE PANTHEON OF GREAT, NROTIC ROM- LEADS HAS FOUND A NEW KG BILLY EICHNER. BT KNOWN FOR YELLG AT PEOPLE ON THE STREET (OR YELLG AT THEM THE "PARKS AND RECREATN" OFFIC), EICHNER UNVEILS A SOFTER BUT NO LS HIGH-STNG VERSN OF HIMSELF "BROS," HIS NEW JUDD APATOW-PRODUCED STUD ROM- ABOUT TWO GAY MEN "MAYBE, POSSIBLY, PROBABLY, STUMBLG TOWARDS LOVE. MAYBE. THEY’RE BOTH VERY BY." AS A ROMANTIC EDY, "BROS" IS A FUN TIME AT THE MOVI, JAM-PACKED WH GENUE LGHS THAT MAKE UP FOR S AT TIM MORE SURFACE-LEVEL PATHOS. AS A MSAGE STATEMENT, ’S A CLUMSY IF WELL-MEANG CELEBRATN OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. BUT AS A SHOWSE FOR EICHNER, ’S AN ABSOLUTE KNOCKOUT. THOSE WHO WATCHED HIS WORK ON THE HIDN GEM HULU EDY SERI "DIFFICULT PEOPLE" HAVE ALREADY SEEN THIS MORE VULNERABLE, NUANCED SI OF EICHNER BEFORE. FOR EVERYONE ELSE, HE’LL HAVE THEM AT HELLO. RELATED: REVIEW: ‘DON’T WORRY DARLG’ SHOULD’VE WORRIED MORE "BROS" BEFORE BES EICHNER’S TALENTS EXTEND BEYOND JT HIS WNG PERFORMANCE AS BOBBY LIEBER, A 40-YEAR-OLD PODST HOST AND MM CURATOR WH ZERO TERT MMENT. EICHNER ALSO -WROTE THE SCREENPLAY WH DIRECTOR NICHOLAS STOLLER ("FETTG SARAH MARSHALL") AND HIS SARDONIC VOICE RGS THROUGH LIKE A BELL. THE FILM’S EDIC TONE-SETTER EARLY, WHEN SMASH-CUTS OM AN EJACULATN JOKE TO ONE OF THOSE WISTFUL GERSHW-SRED NEW YORK CY MONTAG YOU MIGHT FD A NORA EPHRON MOVIE. IT’S AN EARLY HEADS UP THAT "BROS" IS STEEPED AS MUCH "YOU’VE GOT MAIL" EARNTNS AS IS "THERE'S SOMETHG ABOUT MARY" RNCH. AND WHILE BG PUERILE HUMOR WH GENUE HEART IS BASILLY THE ENTIRE APATOW MOL, EICHNER PUTS A UNIQUELY QUEER SP ON THE TEMPLATE THAT MAK "BROS" STAND OUT A SEA OF R-RATED ROM-S ABOUT MMENT-PHOB. (OM LEFT) AARON (LE MACFARLANE) AND BOBBY (BILLY EICHNER) BROS, -WRTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS STOLLER. PHOTO CRED: K.C. BAILEY/UNIVERSAL PICTUR EXPAND FOR STANCE, BOBBY FIRST CROSS PATH WH HIS "VERY HOT, VERY BORG" LOVE TERT AARON (LE MACFARLANE) AT A LNCH PARTY FOR "ZELLWEGR" — A DATG APP FOR GAY MEN WHO JT WANT TO TALK ABOUT ACTRS AND GO TO BED. (IT’S EXACTLY THE KD OF JOKE YOU HIRE EDIAN GUY BRANUM TO LIVER.) AND "BROS" HAS A REHGLY SUAL ATTU TOWARDS NON-MONOGAMO, NON-HETERONORMATIVE APPROACH TO SEX AND DATG. WATCH FREE ON TUBI: HUGH GRANT THE QUEER PERD ROMANCE "MRICE" — GET THE APP BOBBY HIMSELF HAS NEVER BEEN LOVE, NOR A RELATNSHIP, AND AS THE FILM OPENS HE SEEMS TORN ON WHETHER OR NOT THAT’S A GOOD THG. ON THE ONE HAND, HE CLEARLY VALU HIS PENNCE AND TONOMY AND THE EEDOM OF A SGLE LIFE; ON THE OTHER, HE’S ALSO GOT S OF UNPACKED SECURI LURKG BENEATH HIS NFINT, SARSTIC EXTERR. FOR BOBBY, BEG ALONE IS A FENSE MECHANISM — A WAY TO STAVE OFF REJECTN BY NEVER ASKG FOR ANYTHG THE FIRST PLACE. "NO ONE’S MORE EMOTNALLY UNAVAILABLE THAN ME," IS HIS BIGGT BRAG, AND HE DON’T SEEM THE LEAST B PHASED WHEN SOMEONE OPENS WH THE PICK-UP LE, "YOU LOOK ANGRY." WATCH FREE ON TUBI: THE 1996 DOCUMENTARY "THE CELLULOID CLOSET" — GET THE APP TO PH BOBBY OUT OF HIS FORT ZONE, "BROS" SMARTLY PAIRS HIM WH A LOVE TERT WHO’S HIS MATCH MMENT-PHOBIA BUT HIS POLAR OPPOSE EVERYTHG ELSE. FOR HUMAN GOLN RETRIEVER AARON, STAYG SGLE ISN’T A WAY TO AVOID REJECTN SO MUCH AS SKIRT ANY KD OF TERNAL SELF-REFLECTN. WHERE BOBBY BURI HIS SECURI BEHD HIS BG W, AARON BURI HIS BENEATH HIS CROSSF ABS AND A PATHOLOGILLY PASSIVE "GO WH THE FLOW" MEANOR. "BROS" UNRSTANDS THE OPPOS-ATTRACT APPEAL OF PAIRG A HIGH-STNG NROTIC WH A SENSIVE HIMBO (ONE OF THE BT, MOST UNTILIZED ROM- PAIRGS OF THEM ALL), BUT ’S ALSO SMART ENOUGH TO SEE WHAT THOSE TWO VERY DIFFERENT ARCHETYP HAVE MON TOO. (OM LEFT) AARON (LE MACFARLANE) AND BOBBY (BILLY EICHNER) BROS, -WRTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS STOLLER. PHOTO CRED: NILE RIVELLI/UNIVERSAL PICTUR "BROS": AN EXPANSIVE GAY PRI FLAG INED, THE NUANCED TERPERSONAL STUFF "BROS" IS SO GOOD (AND SO FUNNY) ’S A SHAME THE MOVIE OVERBROANS S FOC ELSEWHERE. LIKE THIS YEAR’S OTHER BIG, BUZZY GAY ROM-, "FIRE ISLAND," "BROS" CLEARLY FEELS AN IMMENSE PRSURE TO DO RIGHT BY THE LGBTQ+ MUNY AS A WHOLE (A PRSURE FEW, IF ANY, STRAIGHT ROMANC EVER FACE). BUT ’S HARD TO BE ALL THGS TO ALL PEOPLE. "FIRE ISLAND" PRRIZED S LIGHTFUL QUEER FOUND FAY THEM, SOMEWHAT TO THE TRIMENT OF S CENTRAL ROMANC. "BROS," MEANWHILE, UPL S WNG LOVE STORY WH AN O TO THE BROAR LGBTQ+ EXPERIENCE THAT FEELS A LTLE TACKED ON. RELATED: ‘FIRE ISLAND’ REVIEW: YOU’LL ARNTLY ADMIRE AND LOVE THIS QUEER JANE ATEN ADAPTATN (OM LEFT) TAMARA (EVE LDLEY), ROBERT (JIM RASH), CHERRY (DOT-MARIE JON), WANDA (MISS LAWRENCE), BOBBY (BILLY EICHNER) AND ANGELA (TS MADISON) BROS, -WRTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS STOLLER. PHOTO CRED: NILE RIVELLI/UNIVERSAL EXPAND THOUGH ’S FUN TO SEE EICHNER BOUNCE OFF SUPPORTG PLAYERS LIKE JIM RASH, DOT-MARIE JON, MISS LAWRENCE, TS MADISON, EVE LDLEY AND BOWEN YANG, A SUBPLOT ABOUT THE FIRST NATNAL LGBTQ+ HISTORY MM TRYG TO PICK S FAL EXHIB WDS UP FEELG LIKE MORE OF A CULTURAL SAY THAN A STORY. AND THAT’S ON TOP OF EICHNER’S UNRSTANDABLE, IF SOMETIM OVERWHELMG, SIRE TO PARSE THE ENTIRE XENNIAL GAY MALE EXPERIENCE JT ONE MOVIE, LT HE NEVER GET THE CHANCE TO MAKE ANOTHER. WATCH FREE ON TUBI: THE MP QUEER CLASSIC "BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR" — GET THE APP THERE ARE WORSE PROBLEMS FOR A MOVIE TO HAVE THAN EARNT REPRENTATN, OF URSE, AND BOBBY IS SUCH AN EDE OVERTHKER THAT "BROS" ALMOST GETS AWAY WH ALL AS A REFLECTN OF WHAT ’S LIKE SI HIS BRA. (THE MOVIE EVEN GETS AHEAD OF THIS VERY CRIQUE WHEN BOBBY RELLS HOW HIS DAD ED TO TELL HIM, "NOT EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT THIS GAY SH-T ALL THE TIME.") BUT SPLTG S FOC BETWEEN SO MANY THEM, AND SHG TO CLU SO MANY MEOS AND SUPPORTG PLAYERS, "BROS" LOS SOME OF THE MAGIC THAT HAPPENS WHEN ZERO ON THE SPECIFICY OF S TWO LEADS AND THEIR UNIQUE DYNAMIC WH ONE ANOTHER. (OM LEFT) BOBBY (BILLY EICHNER) AND AARON (LE MACFARLANE) BROS, -WRTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS STOLLER. PHOTO CRED: NILE RIVELLI/UNIVERSAL PICTUR STILL, IF "BROS" DON’T QUE CRACK THAT TOP-TIER OF THE ROMANTIC EDY ECHELON, MORE THAN MAK THE SE FOR EICHNER AS A ROMANTIC LEADG MAN. THE GREATT ROM- PERFORMANC OFTEN E WH A TGE OF MELANCHOLY — A GENUE SENSE OF FEAR THAT THGS MIGHT NOT WORK OUT FOR THEM THE END. BENEATH HIS BRASH EXTERR, EICHNER HAS THAT SENSIVY SPAS. IF HE TURNS OUT TO BE THE NEW MEG RYAN, WE’LL HAPPILY KEEP HAVG WHAT HE’S HAVG. GRA: B+ RATED R. 115 MUT. DIR: NICHOLAS STOLLER. FEATURG: BILLY EICHNER, LE MACFARLANE, TS MADISON, MONI RAYMUND, GUILLERMO DíAZ, GUY BRANUM, AMANDA BEARSE, SYMONE. MAKE A DOUBLE FEATURE WH "10 TTHS ABOUT LOVE," STREAMG EE ON TUBI 10 TTHS ABOUT LOVE (2022): CALA BELLE STARS AS CARA FRANKL, A THRIVG ROMANCE LUMNIST WHO HAS HER OWN LOVE LIFE TOTALLY FIGURED OUT — AT LEAST UNTIL HER LONGTIME BOYIEND DUMPS HER. EVEN WORSE, HER EDOR SISTS ON GIVG HER LUMN A "MALE PERSPECTIVE" AND HIR A WRER NAMED LIAM (DAVID LAFONTA) TO BALANCE HER OUT. WHEN THE TWO NEW -WORKERS CLASH, LIAM SETS OUT TO MONSTRATE THAT HIS TACTICS WORK BY HELPG CARA W BACK HER EX. OF URSE, TRYG TO PROVE EACH OTHER WRONG, LIAM AND CARA MIGHT JT REALIZE HOW RIGHT THEY REALLY ARE FOR EACH OTHER. "10 TTHS ABOUT LOVE" IS A TUBI ORIGAL. RATED TV-14. 90 MUT. DIR: BRIAN K. ROBERTS. FEATURG: CALA BELLE, DAVID LAFONTAE, JENNIFER DE LUCIA, KARN KALRA, PLA RIVERA, DAVID KEELEY. "10 TTHS ABOUT LOVE" IS STREAMG EE ON TUBI — GET THE APP HOW TO WATCH "BROS" "BROS" BUTS THEATERS NATNWI ON SEPT. 30. IT IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TO STREAM. ABOUT THE WRER: CAROLE SIE IS A FILM AND TV CRIC CHIGO, WHERE THE LD NEVER BOTHERS HER ANYWAY. A MEMBER OF THE CHIGO FILM CRICS ASSOCIATN, SHE SPENT FOUR YEARS LOVGLY ANALYZG THE ROMANTIC EDY GENRE ONE FILM AT A TIME HER LUMN WHEN ROMANCE MET COMEDY FOR THE A.V. CLUB. SHE ALSO -HOSTS THE MOVIE PODST, ROLE CALLG, AND SHAR HER POP CULTURE OPNS ON TWTER (@ROLIE). ABOUT TUBI: TUBI HAS MORE THAN 40,000 MOVI AND TELEVISN SERI OM OVER 250 NTENT PARTNERS, CLUDG EVERY MAJOR STUD, ADDN TO THE LARGT OFFERG OF EE LIVE LOL AND NATNAL NEWS CHANNELS STREAMG. 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HOLLYWOOD IS ‘SO HYPOCRIL’: BILLY EICHNER OPENS UP ABOUT BEG AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR
"We’re so liberal, and we’re so tolerant, and we’re so acceptg," Eichner said. "OK, then, where are your movi that center gay characters wh gay actors? They don’t exist." * is billie eichner gay *
As Entertament Weekly pots out, as a Universal property, "Bros" is the first gay romantic edy to be released by a major stud. As Variety not, a profile of Billy Eichner, he's the first openly gay man to wre and star a major stud movie, which is as excg as is shockg. "I hear people talkg about diversy and cln, but I often see gay people left out of those nversatns.
The edy muny, which has always been such a straight man's game, has not been kd to openly gay men.
Likewise, the "Billy on the Street" star argued that there's still homophobia herent the stg procs, too. "I'm a middle-aged gay guy. I've been openly gay my entire reer.
OPENLY GAY BILLY EICHNER SAYS HE WAS ONCE BLD TO HOMOPHOBIA - WHO'S HIS PARTNER?
"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 billie eichner gay *
Billy Eichner equently challeng Hollywood homophobia.
If you're gay, be gay!
BILLY EICHNER IS THE FIRST GAY MAN EVER
Actor-dian Billy Eichner says his reer got off to a much slower start than should have bee Hollywood producers passed him over, tellg him he's "too gay." * is billie eichner gay *
I've been gay forever & I love ! " As the Los Angel Tim pots out, the edian seemgly hted that Unrwood might be gay when he met him years prr. Billy Eichner is speakg out about beg an openly gay actor Hollywood, slammg his dtry as beg “hypocril.
” Although he never officially acknowledged that he was gay, he never lied about this sexualy. “We both had our breakthrough the dtry, as performers, prentg a rather larger-than-life, flamboyant, gay persona on screen, ” the 41-year-old New York native told Deadle durg an terview which he discsed LGBTQ reprentatn at length, and what means for him, an openly gay actor, to work the dtry.
We say, thank you for livg your tth, and thank you for beg brave, and you’re such a role mol for our gay kids, ” add Eichner, who first gaed populary 2011 as the over-the-top host of the celebry-favore and Emmy-nomated sketch edy show “Billy on the Street, ” which he also Daily News FlashWeekdaysCatch up on the day’s top five stori every weekday afternoon. “And then stantly, that actor gets taken off so many stg lists the bs, ” he fact, acrdg to a report released by GLAAD last week, out of the 118 films released by major studs last year, only ne clud an LGBTQ character wh more that 10 mut of screen time, while 21 out of 50 gay characters appeared for ls than one mute — some were so mor that they didn’t even get that was a good year for reprentatn: 2019 marked the hight-ever cln of LGBTQ characters major Hollywood flicks sce the anizatn started mappg reprentatn of characters wh different sexual orientatns and genr inti 2012.
IS BILLY EICHNER MARRIED: IS BILLY EICHNER A GAY MAN? IS HE WH SOMEONE? DISVER MORE ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE
Eichner is the first openly gay man to wre and star a major stud film, which was once unimagable. Here, he talks about that procs. * is billie eichner gay *
“There is no gay Tom Hanks this untry.
There is no gay Will Ferrell. There’s no gay Steve Carell. There’s no gay Pl Rudd, ” Eichner said.
BILLY EICHNER CLAIMS HOLLYWOOD PASSED ON HIM BEE HE IS ‘TOO GAY’
It’s not that they jt haven’t been able to fd the right gay man, who has enough talent to have a reer like that. ”“Hollywood has been so hypocril, when to gay men, and gay actors, openly gay actors, and all openly LGBT actors, ” he said.
OK, then, where are your movi that center gay characters wh gay actors?
BILLY EICHNER BLAM STRAIGHT PEOPLE FOR DISMAL OPENG OF GAY ROM ‘BROS’
But as a kid wh a unique clatn, he was still bld to he grew up New York, went to Stuyvant High School, and lived life on his terms, he didn't know that people wh different orientatns uld suffer om prejudice and Billy on the Street host ghed about his opn on homophobia durg an terview wh PBS 2016. Statg he was bld to such topics his childhood, he mataed beg gay was not that big of a al for him. Now that Eichner knows homophobia exists, he social media to raise his voice agast .
‘BROS’ REVIEW: BILLY EICHNER IS A GLOR ROM- LEAD BY CAROLE SIE PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 ENTERTAMENT FOX TV DIGAL TEAM SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE (OM LEFT) AARON (LE MACFARLANE) AND BOBBY (BILLY EICHNER) BROS, -WRTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS STOLLER. PHOTO CRED: UNIVERSAL PICTUR CHICAGO - STEP ASI, HUGH GRANT AND DIANE KEATON, THE PANTHEON OF GREAT, NROTIC ROM- LEADS HAS FOUND A NEW KG BILLY EICHNER. BT KNOWN FOR YELLG AT PEOPLE ON THE STREET (OR YELLG AT THEM THE "PARKS AND RECREATN" OFFIC), EICHNER UNVEILS A SOFTER BUT NO LS HIGH-STNG VERSN OF HIMSELF "BROS," HIS NEW JUDD APATOW-PRODUCED STUD ROM- ABOUT TWO GAY MEN "MAYBE, POSSIBLY, PROBABLY, STUMBLG TOWARDS LOVE. MAYBE. THEY’RE BOTH VERY BY." AS A ROMANTIC EDY, "BROS" IS A FUN TIME AT THE MOVI, JAM-PACKED WH GENUE LGHS THAT MAKE UP FOR S AT TIM MORE SURFACE-LEVEL PATHOS. AS A MSAGE STATEMENT, ’S A CLUMSY IF WELL-MEANG CELEBRATN OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. BUT AS A SHOWSE FOR EICHNER, ’S AN ABSOLUTE KNOCKOUT. THOSE WHO WATCHED HIS WORK ON THE HIDN GEM HULU EDY SERI "DIFFICULT PEOPLE" HAVE ALREADY SEEN THIS MORE VULNERABLE, NUANCED SI OF EICHNER BEFORE. FOR EVERYONE ELSE, HE’LL HAVE THEM AT HELLO. RELATED: REVIEW: ‘DON’T WORRY DARLG’ SHOULD’VE WORRIED MORE "BROS" BEFORE BES EICHNER’S TALENTS EXTEND BEYOND JT HIS WNG PERFORMANCE AS BOBBY LIEBER, A 40-YEAR-OLD PODST HOST AND MM CURATOR WH ZERO TERT MMENT. EICHNER ALSO -WROTE THE SCREENPLAY WH DIRECTOR NICHOLAS STOLLER ("FETTG SARAH MARSHALL") AND HIS SARDONIC VOICE RGS THROUGH LIKE A BELL. THE FILM’S EDIC TONE-SETTER EARLY, WHEN SMASH-CUTS OM AN EJACULATN JOKE TO ONE OF THOSE WISTFUL GERSHW-SRED NEW YORK CY MONTAG YOU MIGHT FD A NORA EPHRON MOVIE. IT’S AN EARLY HEADS UP THAT "BROS" IS STEEPED AS MUCH "YOU’VE GOT MAIL" EARNTNS AS IS "THERE'S SOMETHG ABOUT MARY" RNCH. AND WHILE BG PUERILE HUMOR WH GENUE HEART IS BASILLY THE ENTIRE APATOW MOL, EICHNER PUTS A UNIQUELY QUEER SP ON THE TEMPLATE THAT MAK "BROS" STAND OUT A SEA OF R-RATED ROM-S ABOUT MMENT-PHOB. (OM LEFT) AARON (LE MACFARLANE) AND BOBBY (BILLY EICHNER) BROS, -WRTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS STOLLER. PHOTO CRED: K.C. BAILEY/UNIVERSAL PICTUR EXPAND FOR STANCE, BOBBY FIRST CROSS PATH WH HIS "VERY HOT, VERY BORG" LOVE TERT AARON (LE MACFARLANE) AT A LNCH PARTY FOR "ZELLWEGR" — A DATG APP FOR GAY MEN WHO JT WANT TO TALK ABOUT ACTRS AND GO TO BED. (IT’S EXACTLY THE KD OF JOKE YOU HIRE EDIAN GUY BRANUM TO LIVER.) AND "BROS" HAS A REHGLY SUAL ATTU TOWARDS NON-MONOGAMO, NON-HETERONORMATIVE APPROACH TO SEX AND DATG. WATCH FREE ON TUBI: HUGH GRANT THE QUEER PERD ROMANCE "MRICE" — GET THE APP BOBBY HIMSELF HAS NEVER BEEN LOVE, NOR A RELATNSHIP, AND AS THE FILM OPENS HE SEEMS TORN ON WHETHER OR NOT THAT’S A GOOD THG. ON THE ONE HAND, HE CLEARLY VALU HIS PENNCE AND TONOMY AND THE EEDOM OF A SGLE LIFE; ON THE OTHER, HE’S ALSO GOT S OF UNPACKED SECURI LURKG BENEATH HIS NFINT, SARSTIC EXTERR. FOR BOBBY, BEG ALONE IS A FENSE MECHANISM — A WAY TO STAVE OFF REJECTN BY NEVER ASKG FOR ANYTHG THE FIRST PLACE. "NO ONE’S MORE EMOTNALLY UNAVAILABLE THAN ME," IS HIS BIGGT BRAG, AND HE DON’T SEEM THE LEAST B PHASED WHEN SOMEONE OPENS WH THE PICK-UP LE, "YOU LOOK ANGRY." WATCH FREE ON TUBI: THE 1996 DOCUMENTARY "THE CELLULOID CLOSET" — GET THE APP TO PH BOBBY OUT OF HIS FORT ZONE, "BROS" SMARTLY PAIRS HIM WH A LOVE TERT WHO’S HIS MATCH MMENT-PHOBIA BUT HIS POLAR OPPOSE EVERYTHG ELSE. FOR HUMAN GOLN RETRIEVER AARON, STAYG SGLE ISN’T A WAY TO AVOID REJECTN SO MUCH AS SKIRT ANY KD OF TERNAL SELF-REFLECTN. WHERE BOBBY BURI HIS SECURI BEHD HIS BG W, AARON BURI HIS BENEATH HIS CROSSF ABS AND A PATHOLOGILLY PASSIVE "GO WH THE FLOW" MEANOR. "BROS" UNRSTANDS THE OPPOS-ATTRACT APPEAL OF PAIRG A HIGH-STNG NROTIC WH A SENSIVE HIMBO (ONE OF THE BT, MOST UNTILIZED ROM- PAIRGS OF THEM ALL), BUT ’S ALSO SMART ENOUGH TO SEE WHAT THOSE TWO VERY DIFFERENT ARCHETYP HAVE MON TOO. (OM LEFT) AARON (LE MACFARLANE) AND BOBBY (BILLY EICHNER) BROS, -WRTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS STOLLER. PHOTO CRED: NILE RIVELLI/UNIVERSAL PICTUR "BROS": AN EXPANSIVE GAY PRI FLAG INED, THE NUANCED TERPERSONAL STUFF "BROS" IS SO GOOD (AND SO FUNNY) ’S A SHAME THE MOVIE OVERBROANS S FOC ELSEWHERE. LIKE THIS YEAR’S OTHER BIG, BUZZY GAY ROM-, "FIRE ISLAND," "BROS" CLEARLY FEELS AN IMMENSE PRSURE TO DO RIGHT BY THE LGBTQ+ MUNY AS A WHOLE (A PRSURE FEW, IF ANY, STRAIGHT ROMANC EVER FACE). BUT ’S HARD TO BE ALL THGS TO ALL PEOPLE. "FIRE ISLAND" PRRIZED S LIGHTFUL QUEER FOUND FAY THEM, SOMEWHAT TO THE TRIMENT OF S CENTRAL ROMANC. "BROS," MEANWHILE, UPL S WNG LOVE STORY WH AN O TO THE BROAR LGBTQ+ EXPERIENCE THAT FEELS A LTLE TACKED ON. RELATED: ‘FIRE ISLAND’ REVIEW: YOU’LL ARNTLY ADMIRE AND LOVE THIS QUEER JANE ATEN ADAPTATN (OM LEFT) TAMARA (EVE LDLEY), ROBERT (JIM RASH), CHERRY (DOT-MARIE JON), WANDA (MISS LAWRENCE), BOBBY (BILLY EICHNER) AND ANGELA (TS MADISON) BROS, -WRTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS STOLLER. PHOTO CRED: NILE RIVELLI/UNIVERSAL EXPAND THOUGH ’S FUN TO SEE EICHNER BOUNCE OFF SUPPORTG PLAYERS LIKE JIM RASH, DOT-MARIE JON, MISS LAWRENCE, TS MADISON, EVE LDLEY AND BOWEN YANG, A SUBPLOT ABOUT THE FIRST NATNAL LGBTQ+ HISTORY MM TRYG TO PICK S FAL EXHIB WDS UP FEELG LIKE MORE OF A CULTURAL SAY THAN A STORY. AND THAT’S ON TOP OF EICHNER’S UNRSTANDABLE, IF SOMETIM OVERWHELMG, SIRE TO PARSE THE ENTIRE XENNIAL GAY MALE EXPERIENCE JT ONE MOVIE, LT HE NEVER GET THE CHANCE TO MAKE ANOTHER. WATCH FREE ON TUBI: THE MP QUEER CLASSIC "BUT I’M A CHEERLEAR" — GET THE APP THERE ARE WORSE PROBLEMS FOR A MOVIE TO HAVE THAN EARNT REPRENTATN, OF URSE, AND BOBBY IS SUCH AN EDE OVERTHKER THAT "BROS" ALMOST GETS AWAY WH ALL AS A REFLECTN OF WHAT ’S LIKE SI HIS BRA. (THE MOVIE EVEN GETS AHEAD OF THIS VERY CRIQUE WHEN BOBBY RELLS HOW HIS DAD ED TO TELL HIM, "NOT EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT THIS GAY SH-T ALL THE TIME.") BUT SPLTG S FOC BETWEEN SO MANY THEM, AND SHG TO CLU SO MANY MEOS AND SUPPORTG PLAYERS, "BROS" LOS SOME OF THE MAGIC THAT HAPPENS WHEN ZERO ON THE SPECIFICY OF S TWO LEADS AND THEIR UNIQUE DYNAMIC WH ONE ANOTHER. (OM LEFT) BOBBY (BILLY EICHNER) AND AARON (LE MACFARLANE) BROS, -WRTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS STOLLER. PHOTO CRED: NILE RIVELLI/UNIVERSAL PICTUR STILL, IF "BROS" DON’T QUE CRACK THAT TOP-TIER OF THE ROMANTIC EDY ECHELON, MORE THAN MAK THE SE FOR EICHNER AS A ROMANTIC LEADG MAN. THE GREATT ROM- PERFORMANC OFTEN E WH A TGE OF MELANCHOLY — A GENUE SENSE OF FEAR THAT THGS MIGHT NOT WORK OUT FOR THEM THE END. BENEATH HIS BRASH EXTERR, EICHNER HAS THAT SENSIVY SPAS. IF HE TURNS OUT TO BE THE NEW MEG RYAN, WE’LL HAPPILY KEEP HAVG WHAT HE’S HAVG. GRA: B+ RATED R. 115 MUT. DIR: NICHOLAS STOLLER. FEATURG: BILLY EICHNER, LE MACFARLANE, TS MADISON, MONI RAYMUND, GUILLERMO DíAZ, GUY BRANUM, AMANDA BEARSE, SYMONE. MAKE A DOUBLE FEATURE WH "10 TTHS ABOUT LOVE," STREAMG EE ON TUBI 10 TTHS ABOUT LOVE (2022): CALA BELLE STARS AS CARA FRANKL, A THRIVG ROMANCE LUMNIST WHO HAS HER OWN LOVE LIFE TOTALLY FIGURED OUT — AT LEAST UNTIL HER LONGTIME BOYIEND DUMPS HER. EVEN WORSE, HER EDOR SISTS ON GIVG HER LUMN A "MALE PERSPECTIVE" AND HIR A WRER NAMED LIAM (DAVID LAFONTA) TO BALANCE HER OUT. WHEN THE TWO NEW -WORKERS CLASH, LIAM SETS OUT TO MONSTRATE THAT HIS TACTICS WORK BY HELPG CARA W BACK HER EX. 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We talk a lot about homophobia, rightfully. — billy eichner (@billyeichner) March 4, 2020On Playg Gay Characters As an actor, Eichner has portrayed gay characters on screen. The next project where he will portray a gay role is the upg show, Bros.