Even as the world’s first gay movie Bros heads out of theaters and onto VOD and streaming (where co-star Ts Madison told Queerty she thinks it’ll really get its shine), we’re getting fresh looks at the making of the movie.
In the latest behind the scenes peek, leads Billy Eichner and Luke MacFarlane shared the two straight star actors who were planned to join the movie’s cameo-fest as an onscreen couple, though in a very meta way.
“Liam Hemsworth wanted to do a cameo in the movie — and he was supposed to,” Eichner explains to Yahoo Lifestyle. “We had a whole Zoom meeting with him, and he was lovely and charming and funny, but then Covid hit again and he couldn’t travel from Australia just to do one scene in Bros unfortunately but that would have been fun!”
MacFarlane jokingly interjects with “Australia, you kept Liam from being in Bros!”
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“In the movie, Luke and I go see a movie called The Treasure Inside, which is a fictional movie about two closeted frontiersmen during the California gold rush of 1812,” Eichner shares.
“Sort of indicative of the many movies about tragic, closeted men that we get and in Hollywood real straight actors play them, Brokeback [Mountain] and a million other ones. We were going to shoot scenes from that movie, and Liam was going to be one of the tragic closeted frontiersmen.”
Set to join him in this closeted coupling was another stud with some pretty famous “bros” of his own: Nick Jonas!
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This wouldn’t have been the Jonas’s first time getting a little fruity for the camera. Ryan Murphy got the singer on payroll back in 2015 for his horror-comedy series Scream Queens.
Jonas played Glen Powell’s only slightly predatory gay bestie, Boone (there’s a whole twist where he was actually a killer in love with Keke Palmer’s character and just pretending to be gay, but that’s reaching Inception levels of playing queer).
Though A-list movie-in-a-movie The Treasure Inside won’t see the light of day, Bros is set to gain a whole new audience when it hits Peacock some time in mid-November.
CatholicXXX
I cant bring myself to watch the movie because of billy. Guess that makes me a “homophobe” in his eyes.
dbmcvey
That’s not the reason for anyone calling you a homophobe. I suspect it’s more about the “Catholic” thing.
xanadude
You’re not supposed to really like him in the movie, so it works! (Worth it just for Luke anyway)
Laughing Reader
The California Gold Rush of 1812? Umm gold wasn’t discovered in California until 1848.
I wanted to like this movie, but Eichner’s character wasn’t likable. The board scenes made me cringe. The song he sang was dumb.. love isn’t love? This didn’t look like my gay life at all.
caliguy11
Hm, maybe they meant the California 1812 Overture?
xnetminder
I totally agree with you. I hoped the movie would be good but it was a real mess. It was as believable as a Hallmark movie with more sex and nudity!
will.h
I really wanted to like this film but the whole did not equal the sum of its parts. The biggest flaw was that it was not a romcom it was a collection of skits loosely connected by a whisper of a plot. Some of the skits were very funny some way too stridently preachy. Some scenes stretched to long some flew by with no real impact on the plot. A good try but a near miss.
cuteguy
Liam is definitely A list but Nick Jonas Is not an A list movie star. He’s mostly known for music. And I doubt a couple of cameos would’ve helped. They needed A list stars like Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling, or even Liam’s brother Chris needed to take the lead roles. But Eichner is too much of a narcissist. They could’ve just kept Luke MacFarlane and paired him with an A lister
bachy
If I were straight, and Liam Hemsworth, I would be totally 100% down to do a cameo where I’d be rolling around and making out with Nick Jonas.
And if I were straight, and Nick Jonas, I would be totally 100% down to do a cameo where I’d be rolling around and making out with Liam Hemsworth.
Coulda been a win/win situation.
dbmcvey
Such a great movie! So funny. I’m glad I saw it with a fairly large audience.
FreddieW
Sure got to Amazon in a hurry. It’s just not as good as everyone says.
Diplomat
Was it worth 20 to watch it?
FreddieW
I saw it at the movie theater the weekend it came out. It’s usually worth the price of admission to go out to a movie on Saturday night with your partner. But at home — spend 6 bucks on Amazon and watch “Bullet Train” instead. It’s a really good movie.
FreddieW
Oh, yeah, and read Rex Reed’s review of “Bullet Train” for laughs. He’s a crusty old nut.
bachy
@Freddie: OMG I LOVE Rex Reed! Thanks for the heads up on his Bullet Train review!
cuteguy
@FreddieW
Correction: Rex Reed is a dangerous old nut. He was the one whom started the vicious rumor that Marissa Tomei didn’t actually win her Oscar. Rex Reed is a sick ol f*ck who tried to destroy Marissa but she had the last laugh with an incredible career and two additional Oscar nominations. Aunt May kicked that old queen’s flabby ol arse. Then again have you seen him? Rex Reed is as fugly outside as he is inside
hwgusn
Instead of referencing Kingdom, where Jonas played an actual gay character, they reference some show where he plays a straight catfish…
Skip
Jonas nailed the closeted gay younger brother in Kingdom. It was a great ensemble series that very few people saw.
Bromancer7
Actors act, it’s what they do. Straight actors taking on a gay role isn’t “gay for pay”. It’s just plain old “acting”.
I really wish we’d limit that term to porn, cause it’s the only place it applies. And even in that arena it’s dubious.
MrMichaelJ
Sounds like Billy needs to have an intervention
juancho
I just want to thank Billy for such a wonderful script and cast including him! Can’t understand why the gay community will not support this movie. It is about real people and about real situations. It is so well done. If you don’t get it there must be something missing in yout life. Try it again without your wanting it to be what you are used to see in so called gay movies. Thanks again Billy and to Luke and the whole cast.
CarrieV
Billy Eichner grates on my nerves like no other.
But the movie-within-a-movie showing Hemsworth and Jonas would’ve been worth seeing the film, damn it. Sometimes it’s the littlest things that make you love a movie.
rray63
Love Luke McFarlane, don’t know the other guy. If an A list star had been opposite Luke there would be a fair chance the movie would have at least broken even. We are to a degree doing this to ourselves. Scarlett Johannson is definitely an A list star. She was going to make a movie called “Rub and Tub” about a trans man. Our community raised so much cane because we wanted a trans man playing the part. The studio said without her, no movie. So truly what did we gain? Nothing, not even a movie we might have enjoyed or even been enlightened by. We have to be careful what we demand.
SDR94103
but they didn’t. good bye
Joshooeerr
Can we please just stop it with the “world’s first gay movie” nonsense?!! It’s not even remotely true. There have been literally thousands of gay Indie rom-coms, written and produced by gay artists, starring gay actors. A good deal of them way better than Bros. The only thing that makes Bros any different is it being financed and distributed by more traditional Hollywood companies – who over-financed it ridiculously and will be lucky to turn a profit. So BFD.