Megan Stalter Talks 'Hi Gay' Vio, Queer Reprentatn Comedy

Contents:

• A DOLL THAT WEARS SUNGLASS WH ATTU? OH, ‘M3GAN’ IS A GAY MOVIE.
• $100M AND A SEQUEL THE WORKS: WHY HAS M3GAN BEE SUCH A H (AND A GAY IN)?
• MEET M3GAN, THE GAY INTER’S NEW HORROR OBSSN
• M3GAN EMBRAC BEG A GAY IN IN INTERVIEW: ‘I HAVE NO INTENTN OF LETTG THEM DOWN’
• HOW A CREEPY DANCE AND INSTANT GAY IN STAT TURNED ‘M3GAN’ INTO A BOX OFFICE SMASH
• 'HACKS' STAR MEGAN STALTER TALKS VIRAL 'HI, GAY' VIO, QUEER REPRENTATN COMEDY
• MEGAN GAY(III)
• MEGAN GAY
• MEGAN GAY

A DOLL THAT WEARS SUNGLASS WH ATTU? OH, ‘M3GAN’ IS A GAY MOVIE.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTReporter’s NotebookThe tle robot — remiscent of the loyal but msy straight women that gay men are protective of — is progrs for a genre wh a shameful killer doll “M3gan” is fashnable, knowg and PicturPublished Jan.

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And y, “M3gan” is a gay movie, or more accurately a movie wh a foundatnally gay sensibily — the gayt non-gay horror film to make a splash sce “The Babadook” beme a subversive Pri mast six years be clear: The only thg flamg “M3gan” is the explosive fale. ” The queer publitn them lled the film “the gay Inter’s new horror obssn. ”As the cematographer for “The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula, ” a horror-themed drag petn on Shudr, and a gay man, Brent Bailey knows about the tersectn of queerns and srs.

$100M AND A SEQUEL THE WORKS: WHY HAS M3GAN BEE SUCH A H (AND A GAY IN)?

He thks “M3gan” is gay, too, and ’s straight women who make so. “Gays, we love a woman charge, and the three ma characters of this movie are women, ” said Bailey, who saw the film Los Angel. “Gay men have always loved movi about female relatnships.

” He poted to “Thelma & Louise” but also “Drop Dead Geo, ” the 1999 darkly ic bety-pageant mockumentary, addg, “Even though they aren’t specifilly gay, they’re about strong femal.

MEET M3GAN, THE GAY INTER’S NEW HORROR OBSSN

That the film is about three strong female characters is a draw for gay viewers, said the cematographer Brent Short/Universal PicturIn a vio terview om his native New Zealand, Johnstone said he had an klg that queer fans would go for “M3gan. “I’ve had awome support om gay people my short reer, ” said Johnstone, a straight married man wh kids.

M3GAN EMBRAC BEG A GAY IN IN INTERVIEW: ‘I HAVE NO INTENTN OF LETTG THEM DOWN’

“As a non-gay person, I try not to make assumptns about why a gay person lik this movie, ” he said.

I’ll tell you why: Bee gay men are protective of women like M3gan, the geo and loyal but msy and solent on.

HOW A CREEPY DANCE AND INSTANT GAY IN STAT TURNED ‘M3GAN’ INTO A BOX OFFICE SMASH

) We nsir our M3gans to be fay, and we will fight you if you even look at them fd M3gan’s gay roots, flip the lendar back to October, when Universal dropped the first trailer.

A gay perfect storm helped go viral: It was Natnal Comg Out Day and Halloween month. Gay stan Megan Thee Stalln tweeted .

'HACKS' STAR MEGAN STALTER TALKS VIRAL 'HI, GAY' VIO, QUEER REPRENTATN COMEDY

” I’ll bet my “Like a Virg” tour T-shirt that a gay man Universal’s marketg partment knows a girl who danc like that and said, Keep . Tst trailer’s gayns might not be readily apparent. He said that what’s drawg gay ey to M3gan is more than good Rtg Bch Face.

It’s that dualy — big sister and butcher — that many gay men see a kship, and an aspiratn. Universal Pictur“Gay men have historilly been seen as ls than and weaker, mentally and physilly, and we know that’s not the se, ” Valle said.

MEGAN GAY(III)

Viewers’ embrace of “M3gan” wh their relatively lewarm rponse to “Bros, ” an unqutnably gay movie. “Bros” was nsired a bomb, and as much as I hate to say this as a longtime gay movie fan, I get .

MEGAN GAY

The marketg felt sperate, remiscent of the time 1997 that I went to “Kiss Me, Guido” on openg weekend bee I felt obliged to make somebody notice that gay men would spend money to see gay movi.

Sce then I’ve seen tons of movi about hot but secure gay characters searchg for love, but I’ve never seen a horror movie that’s gay the way “M3gan” is: fashnable, knowg, cuttg. Watchg the “M3gan” trailer ma me want to see do matter that “M3gan” is gay?

Jason” lled Freddy Keger a gay slur and I felt like I’d been bullied on the playground as cheers filled the has a shameful past when to queer people so, yeah, I’m gog to celebrate when a “fierce bch android lady, ” as Bailey lled M3gan, be part of a ltle girl’s chosen asi the slghter, and I’d want her produced by Kate Wslett.

MEGAN GAY

Well, is a tth universally acknowledged that a film posssn of a female villa mt be want of a rabid gay fanbase.