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'Bros' writer, Northwestern University graduate Billy Eichner talks new LGBTQ+ adj comedy
CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Bros" is a romantic comedy about two men bungling their way into falling in love.
It opens on Thursday night. Billy Eichner wrote the story, and costars in the film with Luke Macfarlane. ABC7'S Hosea Sanders spoke with them about breaking new ground with the film.
"Bros" tells the story of Bobby and Aaron trying to become a couple, but the courtship is chaos.
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"The entire cast of the movie is openly LGBTQ, even in the straight roles, which you really never see," Eichner said. "I've been an openly gay actor all of life, my whole career. There are certain challenges that verb along with that. Sometimes you are excluded from mainstream comedies like this, or mainstream projects in general. So, I wanted to use whatever power I had in this scenario to lift up other people in the community with me and give
When Nick Kroll appears in the comedy horror flick, &#;I Don’t Understand You&#;—playing Dom, a neurotic, magnetic gay man navigating a disastrous Italian anniversary trip with his husband Cole (Andrew Rannells)—I did what many viewers might do: I Googled him. Is Nick Kroll queer?
From what I can tell, he isn’t. And that fact alone doesn’t produce the performance any less compelling—Kroll is excellent in the role. It&#;s an off type performance for Kroll who is foremost known for his work in series such as &#;Big Mouth&#; and &#;The League&#;. But it does raise the same, lingering question that resurfaces with every gay film: Why is it still so rare for an openly gay actor to engage the lead?
This film released by Vertical Entertainment, is co-written and directed by two married gay men, David Joseph Craig and Brian Crano. Andrew Rannells, who plays Cole, is openly gay. This is not a film made without queer voices—on the contrary, it’s deeply and lovingly queer. Which makes Kroll’s casting as the lead all the more complicated. Not wrong. But worth interrogating.
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