‘I’m the diversity hire,’ jokes Stoller, who is straight. It’s directed by co-writer Nicholas Stoller, who made one of the best rom-coms of the 2000s in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Debra ‘It’s Debra Messing, you gays!’ Messing and Kristin Chenoweth also make cameos, the only straight actors in the cast.
Other names include Saturday Night Live standout Bowen Yang, Mrs Doubtfire ’s Harvey Fierstein, Community ’s Jim Rash, Guillermo Diaz, trans reality TV star Ts Madison and RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Symone. Luke Macfarlane, a veteran of the Hallmark Channel assembly line, plays his kinda-sorta love interest. A four-dude couch orgy set to Queen’s ‘Somebody to Love’? Bring it on.Īs pioneering as Bros is generally, it also represents a milestone for Eichner in particular: after memorable roles in Parks & Recreation and as the voice of Timon in Disney’s remake of The Lion King, he’s taking on his first lead in a movie. There is, and true to Eichner’s inference, it teases a flick that doesn’t shy away from the particulars of gay sexual relationships. It’s out in Australia on October 27 and in the UK a day later. Originally due out in August, Bros will now land in US theaters on September 30. But here’s everything we do know about Bros right now. Will Bros live up to its historic billing? We won’t know for a few more months.
‘ I wanted to make a movie that was hilarious and relatable to everyone, first and foremost I wanted to make a movie that felt authentic for the LGBTQ folks that the movie is about,’ says Eichner, ‘and who have been so profoundly underserved by Hollywood over the years, particularly the major movie studios.’ Eichner also stars, alongside a majority-LGBTQ+ supporting cast occupying both gay and straight roles – another first.Īll those milestones are great, but they’ll matter much less if the movie doesn’t ring true for the community the film is aimed at – something Eichner is keenly aware of.
But the good news is that Hollywood given the honour of making it to Billy Eichner, whose dyspeptic comic sensibilities ensure that it definitely won’t just be a queer-themed Hallmark movie.īros, co-written by Eichner and Nicholas Stoller, who also directs, is described as ‘a smart, swoony and heartfelt comedy about how hard it is to find another tolerable human being to go through life with’, which doesn’t sound too far off in spirit from Eichner’s Hulu series about caustic besties, Difficult People. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.Can it really be true that the world is only now, in the year 2022, getting a gay romantic comedy from a major Hollywood studio written by an openly gay person? Somehow it is. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater. You are about to enter a website that contains explicit material (pornography).