EXCLUSIVE: Three’s company when a rocker vibes with a married couple in queer rom-com ‘Throuple’
Throuple is not a misleading one—it’s very much about a young guy flirting with the idea of being the “third” to a married gay couple.But it’s also a movie about thinking outside the lines, creative expression, and navigating intimacy in our friendships, both the physical and emotional kind.“A few years ago, my best friend Tristan was experiencing her first romantic partnership,” recalls Throuple‘s writer and star Michael Doshier. “I was jealous, but I also found myself hanging out with her and her partner constantly!”Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.He continues: “Simultaneously, I was going on dates with more and more married men who had just opened their relationship—it was the new frontier!
When it dawned on me I was ‘third-wheeling’ in two different modes simultaneously, I knew I had a screenplay on my hands.”And thus, Throuple as born.
In the film, Doshier plays Michael, a young singer-songwriter who—much like himself in his twenties—is living a bohemian, largely carefree life in Brooklyn, making the most of the local indie music scene.Never really one to settle down, Michael casually dates around while getting all the platonic love and affection he needs from his best friend Tristan (Tristan Carter-Jones) and her girlfriend Abby (Jess Gabor).
But after hitting it off one night with newly open married couple Georgie (Stanton Plummer-Cambridge) and Connor (Tommy Heleringer), Michael finds himself drawn into their orbit, and the trio begin to consider an arrangement that leaves them far more vulnerable than any of them bargained for.As Britney Spears once said, “One, two, three / Not only you and me.”Directed by Greyson Horst, Throuple is billed as “rock ‘n roll love story,” both because of the way it presents a distinctly queer, nonconformist vision of modern love, but also in its embrace of NYC’s underground music community.(Doshier tells Queerty he’s always “found endless.
