I was also pleasantly surprised by some of the positive responses. That’s my impulse too when I see something gay that’s being released. There’s such a scarcity of gay media that especially gay people scrutinize anything that comes our way on a much deeper level than they would otherwise.
Did you anticipate any blowback for the project? But then people saw Andrew Ahn was attached, which seemed to lend some added credibility.
When the “Fire Island” trailer came out, the initial wave of reactions on Twitter from gay people were kind of cynical. Booster tells us why he thinks gay people are hyper-critical of gay movies, if the classist white guys are as bad in real life as they are in the movie, his difficulty with being an Asian representative in the media, and how his new Netflix special “Psychosexual,” debuting on June 21, handles the problem of representation with comedy.
Will and Noah clash from the second they meet but spend the rest of the movie dancing around their mutual attraction.īrooklyn Magazine spoke with Joel Kim Booster to discuss all things “Fire Island,” which was partially filmed in Brooklyn and directed by queer fimmaker Andrew Ahn (“Spa Night,” “Driveways”). In his version, Booster’s character Noah is the fiercely independent Elizabeth Bennet and Conrad Ricamora plays Will, the counterpart to Austen’s aristocratic landowner Mr. I was like, I want to write a story about this.”īooster’s idea to adapt Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” came to him 10 years ago during his first visit to the island. It’s funny to see how when gay men are together and we are the majority, how we discriminate and divide ourselves even further. “Once you’re here, it can feel very alienating if you’re a person of color or you’re of a different body type. “There is this other side of the island that is scary and alienating in a way-it is oppressively white and inherently classist,” says Booster. Charlie invites the friend over to the most stuck-up party this side of Jane Austen’s Regency era in “Pride and Prejudice.” The one nice guy among them is Charlie (Jame Scully), and he’s crushing on Howie. It’s here in the bougiest section of Fire Island where the bawdy group of queer friends brush against classist, corporate gays who have perfect, Instagram-ready bodies. Every summer, their group of friends visit lesbian mother figure Erin (Cho) at her house on Tuna Walk in The Pines, the part of Fire Island with the most expensive real estate. “Fire Island” follows Noah (Booster), a carefree Brooklynite and his anxious best friend Howie (Yang). In reality, though, the first ever Hollywood movie with an all gay cast has finally just come out-to borrow the phrase.Ĭomedian Joel Kim Booster’s movie “Fire Island” is out now on Hulu he wrote and stars in it with “Saturday Night Live” cast member Bowen Yang, and comedian Margaret Cho.
While Cronenberg maintains the film speaks more broadly about aging and death, the sad tale of an ambitious outsider who died in his prime will have special meaning for many in the LGBT community, who watched their loved ones experience the same fate.It seems like there’s been an influx of queer movies and TV because there’s so much talk about them on social media. Indeed, a plotline involving Goldblum's pregnant girlfriend, played by Geena Davis, involved worry that the fly's DNA may have been passed on to the unborn child.
Upon its release, many interpreted the film, which is set in New York, as an AIDS allegory. However, as the insect's instincts grow stronger, Goldblum loses his humanity and morphs into something more monstrous. At first he seems to benefit from the mixture, gaining superhuman strength and senses. He tries the device on himself and unwittingly scrambles his DNA with that of a fly. In this science fiction horror directed by David Cronenberg, Goldblum plays a scientist who is determined to invent a teleporter.
Jeff Goldblum has never looked more delicious or more terrifying than in the 1986 version of The Fly, a remake of the 1958 camp classic.