Luke Macfarlane reveals the sex scene moment he turned down in Bros
Luke Macfarlane “decided” to not follow through with one sexual scene in the upcoming comedy Bros. In a recent interview with Variety, the actor was questioned by journalist Mark Malkin about how he ‘navigated’ the many sex scenes in the film and whether there was an intimacy coordinator on set. “Nowadays, there’s always an intimacy coordinator, so that’s really interesting.
I think, specifically, we had an LGBT coordinator so they were familiar with language that might be a little bit different,” responded Luke. “It’s like any scene with any actor, you figure it out with your scene partner; what you’re going to be comfortable with, and I’ve always been really comfortable with Billy.
Comedy is funny that way, because you want to push it a little bit.” However, there was one particular moment that Eichner pitched for a sex scene that the Brothers & Sisters star was uncomfortable with. “I think there was a moment when he was like, ‘Shall we spit on each other?’ and I was like, ‘Nope, nope,'” he laughed. “So, that was something I decided.” In Bros, Macfarlane plays a “gay Tom Brady” called Aaron who becomes romantically involved with Bobby Lieber (Eichner), a semi-famous person with an “eclectic portfolio of media-centric jobs”.
Written by Eichner with Nick Stoller (Neighbors), with the latter also directing the film, Bros has been billed as the first gay rom-com to be produced by a major Hollywood studio with an almost entirely LGBTQ+ principal cast.
