'Bros' Trailer: Billy Eichner Stars a Steamy and Meta Gay Rom-Com - Variety

Contents:

• CRAFTG A ROM-COM THAT’S TE TO 21ST-CENTURY GAY LIFE
• COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
• 'BROS' TRAILER: BILLY EICHNER TO LEAD FIRST GAY ROM- BY A MAJOR STUD
• ‘BROS’ TRAILER: BILLY EICHNER STARS A STEAMY AND META GAY ROM-COM
• GAY ROM- 'BROS' IS LIGHT AND BRIGHT WHILE MAKG MOVIE HISTORY

CRAFTG A ROM-COM THAT’S TE TO 21ST-CENTURY GAY LIFE

Unfortunately his other half Bobby played by Billy Eichner who wrote Bros wh the Director Nicholas Stoller is one of the most irratg gay characters I've seen on screen a long 's Billy the character I found annoyg not Billy Eichner bee the character is far to "woke ".

I'm sayg that as a mature age gay man that has experienced much of the LGBTQI history that Bobby Leiber nstantly refers to prervg the movie. I'm probably out of synch wh terms like Cisgenr, Genr Variant, Genr fluid and all the other current rrect pronouns plot is unrstandably simple for a rom- revolv Bobby Leiber, a born and bred New Yorker who hosts a queer history podst lled 11th Brick (bee as a cis whe gay man that's probably the brick he'd have thrown at Stonewall) as the director of the first natnal LGBTQ history mm is raisg money for The LGBTQI pl History Mm New York. His passn is LGBTQI + history and is passnate about the lack of tth historil characters and what he perceiv to be there "gayns" characters like Print Abraham meets his oppose temperament and physil appearance handsome Aaron and the differenc their terts and social patibily threaten to end their most important togetherns gift which is they make each other has been heavily marketed as the first Amerin gay romantic edy om a major stud featurg an entirely LGBTQ prcipal st (though Fire Island (2022) -also an gay romantic edy om a major stud featurg an LGBTQ prcipal st -was released earlier the same year Island did not get a full theatril release like Bros and my opn is a much better movie wh more believable characters.

COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB

Universal Pictur proudly prents the first romantic edy om a major stud about two gay men maybe, possibly, probably, stumblg towards love. The movie, which was -wrten by Eichner and director Nicholas Stoller, also stars Guy Branam, Guillermo Diaz, Ts Madison, Raven, and Bowen 's the first gay romantic edy film to be released theaters by a major stud and the first wh an all-LGBTQ+ prcipal st, 's not the first gay rom- ever. In fact, there have been several over the years, wh que a few g out the past few years you liked Bros, here are some other gay rom-s you n check out!

'BROS' TRAILER: BILLY EICHNER TO LEAD FIRST GAY ROM- BY A MAJOR STUD

Joel Kim Booster's Fire Island was a terrific example of a gay rom- released on Hulu that h all the right spots. This movie was a morn retellg of Pri and Prejudice, also starrg Bowen Yang, Conrad Rimora, Matt Rogers, and Tomas Matos, set at the gay statn of Fire Island P was one of our favore movi of the year. Starrg Nick Robson and directed by Greg Berlanti, this movie follows a closeted teen who's aaid he'll be outed when the emails he's wrten to a fellow gay stunt are disvered.

‘BROS’ TRAILER: BILLY EICHNER STARS A STEAMY AND META GAY ROM-COM

Natasha Lyonne plays a high school cheerlear who is sent to gay nversn mp bee her parents thk she's gay. ”The scene ntued, as Bobby walked through the exhib, liverg a lecture that enpassed homophobia, Nazis and, eventually, AIDS. It isn’t exactly the first major-stud gay rom-, that rabow lrel probably go to 2018’s “Love Simon, ” distributed by 20th Century Fox.

Which means that the movie shoulrs two rponsibili: to liver a edy as r and rnchy as fans of Stoller, and Judd Apatow, a producer, would expect, and to te viewers, gay and straight, on the past and prent of queer liv and relatnships. ”But two s the entertament dtry had tght him that as a gay man, the Tom Hanks rol were not available to him. And that even gay rol — “In & Out, ” say, or “The Birdge, ” or “Brokeback Mounta, ” which “Bros” briefly satiriz — were often played by straight actors.

Universal Pictur“That’s not reflective of how gay relatnships functn, at least the on that my iends have, at least the on that I’ve had, ” Eichner said. ) But “Bros” felt different, he said, that he was hired bee he is gay and not spe of Rivelli/Universal Pictur“This wasn’t jt another character, ” he said.

GAY ROM- 'BROS' IS LIGHT AND BRIGHT WHILE MAKG MOVIE HISTORY

But Apatow, who mentned the recently passed Florida tn law, nicknamed “Don’t Say Gay, ” felt that would arrive at a particularly urgent moment. How we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn AR, Page 21 of the New York edn wh the headle: Beg Te to Gay Life, a Rom-Com. “Bros, ” -wrten by and starrg Billy Eichner, has been touted as the first mastream Hollywood stud-backed rom- to feature gay men as the leads.

Eichner plays Bobby Leiber, a born and bred New Yorker who hosts a queer history podst lled 11th Brick (bee as a cis whe gay man that’s probably the brick he’d have thrown at Stonewall) and is the director of the first natnal LGBTQ history mm, on the brk of fally openg s doors. While most of the characters are unrveloped, Eichner’s razor-sharp w and tic humor sh through the dialogue and suatnal edy as he skewers many aspects of gay datg culture, om Grdr hookups to obssive gym age to group sex.

” This is the guidg light of “Bros”: to show the gays as msy, to show the queer muny as more than a monolh, to have them be as loud and proud and take up as much space beg their thentic selv as possible.

However, feats s own msage of brgg queer history and queer life out of the margs when centers the love story between two cis, nventnally attractive whe gay men. Eichner is the first to pot out his privilege; early on his character ws an award at an LGBTQ gala for Bt Cis Whe Gay Man of the Year. But beg self-aware isn’t as impactful as -centerg the cis whe gay man as the lead, pecially when every other queer character the film still remas on the margs of the story.

But there's also somethg at odds wh Eichner’s missn to brg queerns, gay sex, and gay datg all s texture to mastream Hollywood stud-backed cema, while the same breath sanizg queerns to be palatable to straight culture. Bobby and Aaron discs how often straight male actors w praise for playg gay wboys, but beyond digs at both “Brokeback Mounta” and “The Power of the Dog” (directed by and starrg straight people), the only other queer film mentned is Lu Guadagno's “Call Me By Your Name” a throwaway joke about how 's the one queer movie to which all straight people pare other queer films. At the begng of “Bros, ” a popular podster named Bobby (Billy Eichner) tells his listeners that he was recently asked for feedback on a gay romantic edy — one that was pched to him as a sweet, funny, accsible movie that would appeal to straight and gay dienc alike.

Gay and straight experienc aren’t terchangeable, he says, and ’s ridiculo to expect the former to nform to Hollywood’s monogamy-md feel-good imperativ. They’re at a lnch party for a gay datg app (the name of which alone is worth the price of admissn), though neher Bobby nor Aaron is really lookg for actn, let alone somethg more ser.

”) But the movie, takg s cu om Bobby’s expertise, mov past breezy Apatovian allivens to a realm of media cricism as snarky as is are jok about a TV work’s cynil explosn of queer-themed output (“A Holly, Poly Christmas” is one of the better on) and affectnate eye rolls at the sanized, sentimentalized pictns of gay men on “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” and “Scht’s Creek. ” There are also jabs at prtige dramas like “Brokeback Mounta” and “Milk, ” maly for their Osr-iendly practice of stg straight actors as gay characters sted for tragedy. Though hardly the only gay romantic edy of note to emerge recent months (like Hulu’s “Fire Island, ” whose Bowen Yang pops up here as a lofty Provcetown lnaire), do boast the notable big-stud precent of an entirely LGBTQ prcipal st, albe one whose racial and sexual diversy happens to prop up a love story between two whe, cisgenr, gay men — somethg the movie acknowledg wh both a wk and a wce.