Joel Kim Booster on Limiting the Amount of Gay Best Friend Roles and ‘Derailing’ Dinner Parties With Chrissy Teigen
Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events It was recently announced that Joel Kim Booster was teaming up with Searchlight Pictures again following the awards-nominated success of his 2022 queer rom-com “Fire Island.” This time around, Booster’s new script is about the gay best friend (Booster) of a bride-to-be who’s in charge of making sure his bestie’s wedding goes off perfectly.
However, Booster says he’d like to start moving away from playing the “gay best friend.” “I know how the industry works,” Booster tells me on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “I know that there are a couple more gay best friends in my future.
I will play them gladly. But my threshold for the level of project that I will be willing to play a gay best friend in shifted greatly in the last couple of years.
I’ll be the prestige gay best friend, but I’m not going to do a web series about it.” Booster’s latest project is “Chrissy & Dave Dine Out,” Chrissy Teigen and celebrity chef Dave Chang’s new Freeform series that gives viewers a look at some of their favorite Los Angeles restaurants.
