Billy Eichner talks gay sex, dating, and foursomes in ‘Bros’
all-queer cast, the big story around Billy Eichner‘s Bros is that it’s the first gay romantic comedy to be released by a major Hollywood studio in theaters nationwide.
Sure, in our own gay bubble, we’ve been talking about the movie non-stop since that first raunchy trailer dropped, but it remains to be seen if that buzz will translate to a wider audience.In other words, will the straights turn up for Bros?Eichner sure thinks so.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the writer-star opened up about reactions to early preview screenings, many of which have been very intentionally filled with cis, straight audiences (although Mariah Carey is making sure to give the gays an early look at the movie, too).
And it sounds like they’re loving it!Scenes like an early date between Eichner’s character Bobby and Aaron (Luke Macfarlane)—one that ends in a “near foursome”—feel legitimately unexpected in a major studio movie; these are things that some mainstream audiences have never seen before, giving the comedy of Bros a real freshness.“There’s an excitement to the reaction we’re getting from straight audiences who’ve seen the movie at early screenings,” shared Eichner. “Because it feels like you’re getting a peek behind the curtain at a culture of dating and sex that straight people think they understand, but they don’t really know what it’s like.”Related: 13 cheesy queer comedies from the ’90s for your binging pleasureThough Bros is, in part, an homage to the classic “adult” rom-coms from genre forebears like Nora Ephron and James L.
