Joel Kim Booster on Billy Eichner scrapping streaming projects – The Hollywood Reporter
Joel Kim Booster is weighing in on Billy Eichner’s recent comments about his upcoming LGBTQ rom-com Bros received a theatrical release.
Booster, writer and star of this summer’s Hulu series Fire Islandcame Twitter on Sunday to give his thoughts on Eichner recently spoke to Diversity about his Universal Pictures release, Bros, billed as the first LGBTQ romantic comedy to be released in theaters from a studio. Eichner told the publication that his film is historic because it’s coming to theaters, not “some sort of streaming thing that feels disposable, or like one in a million Netflix shows.” .
Social media users wonder if Eichner might be referring to Hulu projects as Fire Islandan update on Jane Austen’s Proud and prejudice about a group of gay friends enjoying a vacation at a popular New York beach destination or Hulu’s 2020 holiday movie The happiest season starring Kristen Stewart. This apparently led Booster to explain that he had no cell service in the desert when Eichner’s interview was published and that Billy on the street the star, in addition to being his friend and first comedy showrunner, supported him throughout the making. Fire Island.
“It seems that he was quite confused in the excitement about his movie going to the theater, which is really cool and something that I am sure his studio and journalist She’s making him talk about it all the time,” Booster wrote. “God knows I said a lot of stupid things without the journalist’s help.”
He continued, “I am so proud of my film and all the people who made it happen and so grateful that it has been able to reach so many people while streaming and not watching. that movie is less valuable because of that. That being said, I’m also happy to see Bros on the big screen and wish Billy nothing but the best. I really hope you can enjoy both or both of our movies without pitting them against each other (although that’s obviously a lot of fun, and gay Twitter is basically made to doing what). “
Booster went on to say that he spoke to Eichner, the film’s co-writer and star, which is premiering at the Toronto Film Festival ahead of its September 30 release, and that they cleared the air. Booster added that he doesn’t mind the situation and focuses on other things.
After the initial attention surrounding his comments, Eichner posted a thread on Twitter in which he apologized “from the bottom of his heart” to anyone who felt offended or offended. “I’m not referring to the quality or monumental impact of streaming movies at all, I’m referring to the way in which, historically, LGBTQ+ content has often been seen as niche by Hollywood and belittled,” he said. he wrote.
The star added that he’s “very proud.” Bros is one of many projects – theatrical, streaming, online, etc. – where so many of us finally get to tell our own LGBTQ+ stories. “
Before the June 3 debut of Fire IslandBooster said The Hollywood Reporter that he wasn’t sure if he wished the movie was in theaters. Debates have continued in recent years over whether rom-coms, which have grown into a cottage industry out of streamers, can return to prominence on the big screen.
“I wish people could have the experience of seeing this movie in the cinema if they wanted to,” Booster said at the time. “But do I think that matters, and I almost think streaming from the hop would be more useful? Yeah I do. I think it will find an audience who may not have access to movies in theaters right now. “
