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- ‘BROS’ STAR LE MACFARLANE TALKS MASCULY AND GAY INTY
- ‘BROTHERS & SISTERS’ LE MACFARLANE, ON BEG GAY! HIS RELATNSHIP WH WENTWORTH MILLER IS A PRETTY EXCG ONE. KNOW ABOUT IT
‘BROS’ STAR LE MACFARLANE TALKS MASCULY AND GAY INTY
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He was the first male Alpe skier of his liber to e out as gay. Durg a December 2020 terview wh the New York Tim, Roberts me out as gay, beg the first ele men’s Alpe skier to publicly do so. Now, more than a later, the actor will make his theatril film but — the first-ever gay rom- om a major stud (the ma st is entirely ma up of LGBTQ actors).
He stars Universal’s Bros, om Billy Eichner (also the first openly gay man to -wre and star his own major stud film) and director Nicholas Stoller (Neighbors). Their meet-cute happens at a gay club, where a shirtls, ripped, baseball-hatted Aaron mak cheeky nversatn wh the phy and perennially sgle-on-purpose Bobby. “When I first read the Bros script, I really nnected wh Aaron on the ia of, where do his masculy f to the gay spectm?
Macfarlane says he me of age, and to the bs, at a time when gay men felt the ways which they were allowed to exprs themselv, and search for succs, were very narrow. “There was somethg about growg up the ’90s, our ias of masculy me om Abercrombie & Fch or Calv Kle ads, and that was very nfg to gay people of a certa age, ” he says, also rellg how an after-school viewg of the Chippendal dancers on The Phil Donahue Show exemplified the emphatilly mascule msagg of the time. “It’s about more than gettg gay people out to see the movie, ” says Macfarlane.
‘BROTHERS & SISTERS’ LE MACFARLANE, ON BEG GAY! HIS RELATNSHIP WH WENTWORTH MILLER IS A PRETTY EXCG ONE. KNOW ABOUT IT
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Out Canadian actor Le Macfarlane has revealed some tails about the gay sex scen his upg movie film, -wrten by and starrg Billy Eichner, is the first queer romantic edy to be backed by a major Hollywood stud. Related: Billy Eichner & Le Macfarlane on Makg Bros, a Historic Gay Rom-ComVariety scrib Macfarlane's character Aaron Bros as "a 'straight-actg and -appearg' attorney wh ser mment issu, " addg "[MacFarlane] spends most of his screen time shirtls or a T-shirt. They also ntend wh generatn-specific issu related to gay men their 40s, who me of age after the height of the AIDS panmic wh ltle posive media reprentatn.
"Bros don't shy away om the sex at all, and pecially the gay sex. In 2020, Roberts me out as gay. “I didn’t know what gay was terms of how that uld exist the spac I loved and the spac I found myself, which was sports.
I was not sure if what I was feelg was matchg up wh the way I was perceivg gayns at that time, which was obvly a wrong [pictn]. And not only jt the gay bt iend — they let me be a leadg man. He joked, "I don't thk stud executiv are sayg, 'Get me the gay guy om 'Brothers and Sisters' who do all those Hallmark films.