Bros(2022).Photo: Universal Pictures/YouTube
Billy Eichnerthinks the sex scenes in his new movie,Bros, push the envelope––in a good way.
“To this day, I’m waiting for someone at the studio to call me and go, ‘You know, now that we think about it, you’ve gone too far.’ But it never happened,” Eichner, 43, saysin this week’sVarietycover story. “There’s part of me that realized some of this would be eye-opening for certain people in the audience, and I loved that too.”
He continued, “I was like, ‘Great! Let’s surprise people. Let’s shock them.’ Sacha Baron Cohen doesn’t worry about that — why should I?”
Eichner, who co-wrote the Universal Pictures film withNeighborsfilmmaker Nicholas Stoller, headlines an all-LGBTQ cast in a movie touted as the"first romantic comedy from a major studioabout two gay men maybe, possibly, probably, stumbling towards love. Maybe. They’re both very busy."
The movie also stars Luke Macfarlane,Ts Madison,Monica Raymund, Guillermo Díaz, Guy Branum and Amanda Bearse.
“Hollywood took a century to make this film,” Eichner toldVariety. “That’s not my fault — that’s Hollywood’s fault for taking this f—— long.”
Yet theBilly on the Streetalum admitted that he also feels pressure for the movie to succeed.
Billy Eichner on the cover ofVariety.Jeff Lipsky for Variety
“I feel a responsibility for it to do well,” he said. “I’ve worked so hard on it, I care so much about it, and I want it to do well for the sake of the LGBTQ stories getting green-lit. So there’s a burden I feel, much as I want to sit here and just talk about how funny the movie is.”
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Brosworld premiere is scheduled for Sept. 8 at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. It hits theaters everywhere Sept. 30.
source: people.com
