Speaker 1: It's in the news today, but it was actually on
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Speaker 1: TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris, and on this podcast
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Speaker 1: On the podcast, I have Hollywood actors Billy Eichner, Luke McFarland,
Speaker 1: plus creative director Nick Stoler, who were here to discuss
Speaker 1: their latest film, Bros. Thanks to the team at Universal
Speaker 1: Pictures Australia. Bros. Is out at cinemas on the twenty
Speaker 1: seventh of October and marks the first mainstream gay romcom
Speaker 1: to ever hit theaters. A lot of the media coverage
Speaker 1: for this film in Australia and around the world has
Speaker 1: been fantastic and very inclusive of the LGBTI community. Yet
Speaker 1: I will say the most important thing to know going
Speaker 1: into this film is that it's everything that it says
Speaker 1: on the box and that My Friends is a very
Speaker 1: funny film. I was lucky enough to see the film
Speaker 1: a few months back and have been thinking about it
Speaker 1: ever since. I wondered, is this film the funniest film
Speaker 1: I've ever seen? Possibly, and was curious about what this
Speaker 1: says about the current consciousness of LGBTI people in mainstream media.
Speaker 1: The film centers around Billy's characters trials and tribulations in
Speaker 1: finding love in the gay world, and the director doesn't
Speaker 1: hide away from a wartz and all dive into the
Speaker 1: complexities of dating. In twenty twenty two, we will talk
Speaker 1: about homophobia in mainstream media, how lucky we are that
Speaker 1: this film was even made, if there was a conscious
Speaker 1: decision to have all the characters played by LGBTI actors,
Speaker 1: and why this was chosen for a cinema release over
Speaker 1: a streaming service for which people could have watched at home.
Speaker 1: I will have the actors in first, and then stick
Speaker 1: around for Nick Stola, the director, as he also gives
Speaker 1: a fantastic chat. However, let's get started with today's guests.
Speaker 1: I'd like to welcome Billy Arkna, Luke mcfollan and Nick Stola.
Speaker 1: To tav Raylard.
Speaker 2: We were very excited for this opportunity and very grateful
Speaker 2: to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: The groundbreaking films during Hilarious Billy Eichner and Luke McFarlane.
Speaker 3: From the beginning, universal was like, we've got to do
Speaker 3: this in theaters.
Speaker 2: Gay guys are so stupid, I know, but we've been
Speaker 2: smart enough to brand ourselves as being smart. I think
Speaker 2: a lot of complicated feelings are inspired. We need to
Speaker 2: get people to rethink history through a queer prism. We
Speaker 2: had a lot of great scenes that we had to
Speaker 2: cut from the movie.
Speaker 4: This is the best.
Speaker 1: Interview we've ever had, and we've done so many.
Speaker 3: For years, have been intrigued by the idea of romantic
Speaker 3: comedy about two gay men falling in love.
Speaker 1: Hi, boys, welcome to Australia.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of Yeah. If I don't say
Speaker 1: your names, then you both just talk at the same time.
Speaker 1: You've spent way too much time together.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, we still like each other very very much.
Speaker 4: Yeah we did.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, I'm a huge fan of both of you. Luke.
Speaker 1: I am am a part of the Scotty one del
Speaker 1: Fang group on Facebook. So for brothers and sisters, fans
Speaker 1: out there, they'll understand that.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Yes, and Billy I once got asked to do like
Speaker 1: a Billy on the Straight s comedy sketch, and I
Speaker 1: worked out that that type of humor is harder to
Speaker 1: pull off than people expect.
Speaker 4: It is very, very difficult. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Every time we have a big celebrity come into Billy
Speaker 2: on the Street with me, they think it's going to
Speaker 2: be easy, and then they look at me when we're
Speaker 2: done and they're like, wow, that is very intense and
Speaker 2: very difficult.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: People, we do a good job of making it look
Speaker 2: pretty effortless, but an enormous amount of work and energy
Speaker 2: is put into it.
Speaker 1: What has the reception been like for Bros in Australia.
Speaker 1: I know that you got to screen it in Melbourne
Speaker 1: last night. Has it been different here to the United States.
Speaker 5: Gosh, it's really hard to It's really hard to tell.
Speaker 5: I think Australians are sort of famous for their sense
Speaker 5: of humor. I think internationally worldwide we know Australians would
Speaker 5: be funny, and I think that that comes with the
Speaker 5: sort of confidence about themselves.
Speaker 4: So I feel that so far.
Speaker 5: The reception has been more about just like, this movie
Speaker 5: is really really funny, and coming from an Australian perspective,
Speaker 5: that is quite a flattering thing to hear, because they
Speaker 5: take their comedy quite seriously.
Speaker 1: Well, what do you think is the funniest response that
Speaker 1: you've had from fans? I mean, you guys have been
Speaker 1: touring this film around the world, maybe something interesting or
Speaker 1: maybe something funny. What something stayed in your mind that
Speaker 1: someone's come up and told you about the film.
Speaker 2: We had a really funny thing that happened on social
Speaker 2: media this morning. A young gay man who lives in
Speaker 2: California posted a text thread that he had with his mom,
Speaker 2: and his mom said, oh, your dad and I are
Speaker 2: going to see Bros. Today And her gay son said,
Speaker 2: oh my god, why and she said, oh, we heard
Speaker 2: it was cute. And then he said, oh, okay, enjoy
Speaker 2: And then three hours passed and then she texts him
Speaker 2: are you on Grinder after seeing?
Speaker 4: Which I thought was hilarious, very very cute.
Speaker 5: And then he texted Billy and said, oh, Billy, what
Speaker 5: hell have you rot?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: He posted on Twitter and he said, Billy, I can
Speaker 2: know what what fresh hell have you rot?
Speaker 1: On my last I love it. I love it. I
Speaker 1: went and saw a screening a few months back to
Speaker 1: give Universal Pictures some early feedback, and first off, I
Speaker 1: have to say, I just genuinely love this film.
Speaker 4: Oh thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: It's one of the funniest films that I think I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. I mean, it's kind of like Bridesmaid's funny,
Speaker 1: you know, where you're not expecting this film to really
Speaker 1: lift the way that it does. But if you pay
Speaker 1: your money, which you should, and go and see this film,
Speaker 1: you're guaranteed to laugh. I don't care who you are.
Speaker 5: It's such a funny thing to hear you say that,
Speaker 5: because it really is. And I also feel like people
Speaker 5: are so skeptical of people when they say it's actually
Speaker 5: really funny, because comedy is so personal. But I've sat
Speaker 5: through the film now like five or six times, and
Speaker 5: always I get the laughter. You hear the laughter of
Speaker 5: the audience. So it's very it's very rewarding to hear that,
Speaker 5: and with sincerity that I'm getting from you that you
Speaker 5: do find it funny.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: But what I was shocked from from start to finish
Speaker 1: was that I was in a cinema watching a gay
Speaker 1: movie that was so reflective of gay men today and
Speaker 1: so accurate.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you kind of don't realize what we've been missing
Speaker 2: until you watch it on a big screen, you know,
Speaker 2: because we've had a lot of queer movies over the years.
Speaker 2: Rom COM's done on the indie level, a lot that
Speaker 2: are on streaming platforms and things like that. But it
Speaker 2: is a very unique and powerful experience to watch it
Speaker 2: on a big screen with other strangers in the room.
Speaker 2: That's not an experience that as queer people we've had
Speaker 2: very often. And when when there has been a movie
Speaker 2: like that, it's often a very tragic movie. It's very sad.
Speaker 2: It's about the suffering of being gay and you know, struggle,
Speaker 2: the struggle of it, and those are all very worthwhile
Speaker 2: stories to tell. But we don't get many that are
Speaker 2: just flat out comedies that are uplifting love stories that make.
Speaker 4: You laugh a lot.
Speaker 2: And I think you don't realize that we haven't gotten
Speaker 2: that until you're presented with one.
Speaker 1: You know, there's no hate fledger moment, you know, that's
Speaker 1: sad moment where sniffing Jake Gellenhal's jacket because you know,
Speaker 1: it's so sad but Billy, the reason why Bros. To
Speaker 1: Me was a film I never thought I would see
Speaker 1: is because I always felt like I was in a
Speaker 1: minority that wouldn't allow a motion picture company to take
Speaker 1: a chance on us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think you know, in Hollywood, if no
Speaker 2: one's done something, there's just more and more fear that
Speaker 2: grows around doing it and investing in it at a
Speaker 2: high level, you know. And so we were very excited
Speaker 2: for this opportunity and very grateful to be a part
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 4: It was definitely a long time coming.
Speaker 1: So this is a real story from last night I
Speaker 1: wanted to share with you guys. But I have a
Speaker 1: small amount of notoriety here in Australia. Some people on
Speaker 1: the street might often recognize me and come up and
Speaker 1: talk to me and this straight man. I don't know
Speaker 1: why my voice is doing that. It's obviously the nerves
Speaker 1: of how attractive you both are. But this man came
Speaker 1: up to me and he was like talking in just
Speaker 1: the usual chitchat interaction, and then he was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go and see the movie Bros.
Speaker 1: He said, you know you're okay. I don't hate gay men,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to say that in the cinema,
Speaker 1: and I was shocked and annoyed at this interaction that
Speaker 1: was taking place in twenty twenty two. And this made
Speaker 1: me wonder, are we not as far along with mainstream
Speaker 1: homophobia as we thought we were.
Speaker 5: It's so interesting, you know. I often think about, like
Speaker 5: when memoirs of a Geisha came out in the theater,
Speaker 5: we didn't go, like, I'm not interested in Geisha stories.
Speaker 5: They're fine, they can do what they want privately, but
Speaker 5: gay men is somehow a bridge too far. And I
Speaker 5: don't know if it's homophobia. I think it's it's just
Speaker 5: like fear of the unknown and fear of like intimacy.
Speaker 5: I think like these greater questions of like why it
Speaker 5: is we're so afraid of intimacy and culture? Why are
Speaker 5: we so afraid of people falling in love? Because it's
Speaker 5: not just essentially the queer story, it's it's it's the
Speaker 5: romance story. We don't have a lot of romance in
Speaker 5: the theater right now, and I think that we're a
Speaker 5: cynical culture and we're moving through a cynical time right now,
Speaker 5: so we're skeptical of love.
Speaker 4: And I think that that's a shame absolutely.
Speaker 1: I mean, straight women are going to Straight women love
Speaker 1: gay movies, so I feel like they're going to go.
Speaker 1: Straight men might be a little bit apprehensive, but I
Speaker 1: feel like if they see this film, they will love it.
Speaker 1: But I'm interested in your thoughts on what do you
Speaker 1: think is the issue with getting gay white men into
Speaker 1: a movie theater with a film about gay men. Can
Speaker 1: some gay men be a little bit problematic in getting
Speaker 1: them to appreciate the success of other gay men.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very complicated in that way. You know, we
Speaker 2: haven't gotten many movies like this, And although things have
Speaker 2: definitely evolved pretty quickly in the path handful of years
Speaker 2: in Hollywood in terms of openly LGBTQ people getting to
Speaker 2: be successful on a major level, that's still a very
Speaker 2: new concept and it's not an opportunity that's been open
Speaker 2: to a ton of people. And I think that as
Speaker 2: much as you want your community to rally around you
Speaker 2: and support you and give you the benefit of the doubt,
Speaker 2: I think there are decades worth of anger and frustration
Speaker 2: and bitterness and jealousy that has been built up because
Speaker 2: the opportunities have been so few and far between that
Speaker 2: when someone comes along and gets that type of opportunity.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of complicated feelings are inspired by
Speaker 2: that person getting that opportunity, or those people getting an
Speaker 2: opportunity that not many people in that marginalized group have gotten.
Speaker 2: And I think that's something that we're still all learning
Speaker 2: to navigate. And I actually think that gay men in
Speaker 2: general will still have a long way to go in
Speaker 2: terms of loving themselves and supporting each other.
Speaker 5: I would also suggest too, you know, if you are
Speaker 5: representing sort of gay Australia, that you are just one person,
Speaker 5: and you are one queer experience, and everyone wants to
Speaker 5: see themselves. And I think that because you are the
Speaker 5: only one, you become the embodiment of all queer Australians.
Speaker 4: When we are very very colorful collage of people. You know,
Speaker 4: we have many different perspectives.
Speaker 1: Keep telling queer stories, keep finding different people, because there's
Speaker 1: just so many of us. There's so many great, amazing
Speaker 1: stories to tell. I think that the story that we
Speaker 1: do see in Bros. Those reflects a very contemporary gay
Speaker 1: man and it's very funny to see. Anyway. I've been
Speaker 1: dying to one pack this with you guys. I've been
Speaker 1: thinking about Bros. And talking about Bros for months now,
Speaker 1: so I thank you and everyone who joins my podcast
Speaker 1: gets asked this question. What's something from behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: something that we won't see, you know, kind of like
Speaker 1: a behind the scenes secret from the making of Bros.
Speaker 4: Oh my, a behind the scenes secret.
Speaker 2: We had a lot of great scenes that we had
Speaker 2: to cut from the movie, which hopefully will end up
Speaker 2: I don't know, online or on DVD or something. We
Speaker 2: had a scene that I did with a really funny actor,
Speaker 2: Molly Pancholi, where like these like nipple toys get suctioned
Speaker 2: onto my bles and won't come off. It was a
Speaker 2: really funny scene with physical comedy. We had to cut it.
Speaker 2: There's a scene where a Pride parade completely falls apart
Speaker 2: because all the different lgbt Q groups are getting angry
Speaker 2: at each other ironically, which I wish we could have kept,
Speaker 2: But hopefully it'll it'll end up somewhere where people can
Speaker 2: see it.
Speaker 1: It'll go on the DVD. Boys. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for your time, and thanks to the team of Publicity
Speaker 1: for organizing this. I really appreciate it, and I hope
Speaker 1: everyone goes and sees Bros and has a good time.
Speaker 4: Thank you for so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you, see you boys, Pie, Nick, thank you for
Speaker 1: coming on the podcast and talking about bros.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Nice to meet you. I've been told to look in
Speaker 3: the camera, so yeah.
Speaker 1: That's fine, it's fine. I actually met you once at
Speaker 1: a test screening for Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: so oh wow. Yeah, so in two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: I think of also two thousand and seven, so a
Speaker 1: long time.
Speaker 3: Ago, two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm not holding it against you that you
Speaker 1: don't remember me.
Speaker 3: Was I polite when we met or it was so nice.
Speaker 1: I was telling you about how much I loved film,
Speaker 1: and it was a very early screening of it, and
Speaker 1: it did change a slight bit to what was released.
Speaker 1: But I was there for one of those you know,
Speaker 1: those LA screenings where they get the people into a room. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we're going off on a tangent. I need to talk
Speaker 1: to you about this film.
Speaker 3: I just want to talk about that test screening and
Speaker 3: what changed.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: I told so many people about that film, and then
Speaker 1: when I finally got to see it at the cinemas,
Speaker 1: there was some things that were a little bit different.
Speaker 1: But I you know, this is a long time ago,
Speaker 1: my friend.
Speaker 3: So I was, I remember it.
Speaker 4: What's it about?
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I've.
Speaker 4: Got to get into this.
Speaker 1: I'm going to run over time. But anyway, how did
Speaker 1: this film come about? I'd love to know the early
Speaker 1: pitch when you got involved.
Speaker 3: Sure, it actually started with me. I for years had
Speaker 3: been intrigued by the idea of romantic comedy about to
Speaker 3: gay men falling in love and kind of the tone
Speaker 3: that I do, which is big laughs and then you're sudden,
Speaker 3: you know, an emotion and all of that. And but
Speaker 3: I'm straight, so I didn't feel like it was the
Speaker 3: kind of story I could tell by myself. And I
Speaker 3: worked with Billy Eichner. I cast him in Neighbors too.
Speaker 3: I knew him Billy on the street. I knew how
Speaker 3: funny he was. He was in Neighbors Too, And then
Speaker 3: he was in a show that I created with my
Speaker 3: wife called Friends from College, and he really impressed me
Speaker 3: with his acting. I was he was a really good actor.
Speaker 3: And then we screened the first episode of that show
Speaker 3: in a movie theater, and every time he was on screen,
Speaker 3: he destroyed the crowd exploded in laughter, and I was like, Oh,
Speaker 3: he's the movie star, and so I emailed him and said, hey,
Speaker 3: would you want to build a romantic comedy around he
Speaker 3: was kind of a comedy vehicle for you, and he
Speaker 3: was into the idea and we went from there.
Speaker 1: Do you think that now is the time to start
Speaker 1: telling stories of men in a colloquial way, you know,
Speaker 1: the familiar conversations that are actually happening, you know, the
Speaker 1: everyday gay man and who we are instead of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think any story that hasn't been
Speaker 3: told in this kind of tone, like, it's always fun
Speaker 3: to see new stories and fresh stories. And I think,
Speaker 3: you know, I love romantic comedies and I love romance,
Speaker 3: I love comedy, and so I think telling this kind
Speaker 3: of story, you know, in this sort of way is
Speaker 3: really fun. I don't know, it's a really and it's
Speaker 3: and it's fresh, and to tell it honestly, I think,
Speaker 3: you know, we found screening the movie that you know
Speaker 3: that that regardless whether you're day or straight or whatever, like,
Speaker 3: people just respond to it just because it's an honest, funny, crazy,
Speaker 3: crazy movie.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, people recognize this format as like a bridesmaid's
Speaker 1: type comedy with wider appeal and not just for get.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not just a gay film for a
Speaker 1: niche audience. Do you think that's gonna happen?
Speaker 4: I think so.
Speaker 3: I mean if it if it doesn't happen, and you know,
Speaker 3: hopefully it happens in theaters. But I think the movies
Speaker 3: I make tend to have a long life, and they
Speaker 3: tend to be something. If they don't do exceptionally well
Speaker 3: in theaters, they people discover them later, whether it be
Speaker 3: on streaming or peep, you know, video on demand or whatever.
Speaker 3: And I found that's happened with all my movies. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, when you think so, I think everyone ultimately
Speaker 3: will see this movie just because it's so funny and
Speaker 3: it's so fun and it's so romantic. So you know,
Speaker 3: I'm pretty confident about that, just because it's a super
Speaker 3: entertaining movie.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely. I mean a good point that you just made.
Speaker 1: There was the conversation that must have happened about its distribution.
Speaker 1: What was Was there a reason for not taking it
Speaker 1: straight to a streaming service but instead releasing it in cinema?
Speaker 3: It was always it was always gonna be in theaters.
Speaker 3: There's something So there's nothing more fun than being in
Speaker 3: a theater laughing together, and particularly this movie, when you
Speaker 3: have a big crowd laughing and also falling very silent,
Speaker 3: Like there's a very dramatic scene in the movie where
Speaker 3: you could hear a pin drop in the theater and
Speaker 3: I would often hear people going ah and that kind
Speaker 3: of thing, and it's just a very human and fun
Speaker 3: experience to get to do that. And so and from
Speaker 3: the beginning, Universal was like, we've got to do this
Speaker 3: in theaters. And I think also honestly, from a financial standpoint,
Speaker 3: it helps the movie. It helps it have legs even
Speaker 3: after that, even after it goes onto streaming and after
Speaker 3: you know, there are certainly people who will who will
Speaker 3: hear about the movie. We'll read reviews and we'll say
Speaker 3: and we'll hear people who went to the theater and said,
Speaker 3: I love this movie and might be like, I don't
Speaker 3: want to get a baby for this, but I'm gonna
Speaker 3: watch it when it's on video and demand, you know,
Speaker 3: which I think is a different kind of way of
Speaker 3: getting this sort of thing out there. But you know,
Speaker 3: most movies are in theaters for like one percent of
Speaker 3: their life and then are in every other format for
Speaker 3: nine to nine percent. It's going to do really well
Speaker 3: on laser disc. Yeah, I thought like it's gonna be
Speaker 3: a big laser disc movie.
Speaker 1: I'm going to sound like Nicole Kibben from the AMC commercial,
Speaker 1: but I love the community of theater like I love
Speaker 1: the community of being in a room and the laughing
Speaker 1: and that sense of enjoyment, you know. And I feel
Speaker 1: like this movie we would have been robbed had we
Speaker 1: not have had that experience. I mean, I cannot remember
Speaker 1: the last movie that everyone was laughing as much as
Speaker 1: they were watching Grows.
Speaker 4: Oh thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been years, it really has. It's I mean,
Speaker 3: in the pandemic extended it by even more. And I
Speaker 3: think people forget how much fun it is to laugh
Speaker 3: at a movie and to be in a movie theater
Speaker 3: laughing altogether. It's a party. It feels like a party,
Speaker 3: you know. And if there aren't romantic comic in movie theaters,
Speaker 3: then people will stop going on dates, and then they
Speaker 3: won't be having sex, and then there won't be any
Speaker 3: more humans. So it's not just about movies in theaters.
Speaker 1: What was some of the hurdles in getting this made?
Speaker 1: Was there any censorship from the paper, financing, it.
Speaker 3: No, there wasn't any universal It's why I've directed all
Speaker 3: my movies there. They really understand comedy, and they, you know,
Speaker 3: their notes tend to be can the ending be better
Speaker 3: or can the third act turn doesn't make sense? Or
Speaker 3: you know, they're much more about the story. They don't
Speaker 3: second guess comedy. They know that, like I know what
Speaker 3: I'm doing, They know Billy knows what he's doing. They
Speaker 3: know judnah, So they're never gonna be like this joke
Speaker 3: isn't funnier that they know that we like, first of all,
Speaker 3: we probably know what we're doing, and we also know
Speaker 3: they know that we're gonna test the jokes and if
Speaker 3: the joke doesn't get a laugh or it doesn't work,
Speaker 3: then we'll pull it out of the movie. So it's
Speaker 3: never about you know, they never said like this part's
Speaker 3: too gay or that's going too far. They knew that
Speaker 3: we would find that line or whatever you know naturally,
Speaker 3: you know, and that playing it within the tone that
Speaker 3: we've done everything we've done, that that would work so
Speaker 3: so and they were on board right away. You know,
Speaker 3: the length of time, the reason it took so long
Speaker 3: was due to COVID. You know, we were about to
Speaker 3: shoot this movie in March of twenty twenty, but and
Speaker 3: we had to delay obviously, like the rest of the world.
Speaker 1: Was there a lot of gay actors wanting to be
Speaker 1: in this film and was there a conversation that characters
Speaker 1: needed to be played by gay actors?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean from the beginning, and this was also
Speaker 3: from the studio, which is really bold of them, because
Speaker 3: you know, there just aren't really many gay movie stars.
Speaker 3: They were like they were, and we also agreed and
Speaker 3: wanted for the Aaron characters to be played by a
Speaker 3: gay actor, and that's partially just it felt like the
Speaker 3: right thing to do for the movie, but also literally
Speaker 3: the joke in the film about straight people playing gay
Speaker 3: characters would not have worked if the give Aaron had
Speaker 3: been been played by a straight actor, it would have
Speaker 3: just been confusing. And then very quickly we were like, oh,
Speaker 3: the entire cash to be LGBTQ. And again that's something
Speaker 3: that was it felt appropriate for the film. But it's
Speaker 3: also the secret weapon of any comedy is talent. You
Speaker 3: haven't before people being you know, and there's certainly a
Speaker 3: lot of actors like Jim rash Or Dot Marie Jones
Speaker 3: who have been around, but maybe haven't had this sort
Speaker 3: of stage in which to do their comedy. And then
Speaker 3: there's new voices like Eve Lindley, who's like a comedy genius.
Speaker 3: She's so funny, and getting to discover those kinds of
Speaker 3: people are what make comedies work so well. You know,
Speaker 3: when you think about Melissa McCarthy and Bridesmaid, it's like
Speaker 3: that was this huge discovery and so exciting for people.
Speaker 3: And I think it's one of the reasons people laugh
Speaker 3: so hard at this movie. They're like, who are these people?
Speaker 3: They're so funny?
Speaker 1: Well, mate, I could literally talk to you all day,
Speaker 1: and honestly, I really wish that I could, because I
Speaker 1: think that you are a genius and what it.
Speaker 4: Is that you do.
Speaker 1: What is something? This is something everyone gets on the podcast.
Speaker 1: What's something from behind the scenes, something that we won't say.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a behind the scenes moment from
Speaker 1: your time making bros.
Speaker 3: Behind the scenes, like something I cut from the movie
Speaker 3: or just an experience I had making something.
Speaker 1: The fans would be like, oh my god, I can't
Speaker 1: like that happened while they'm making this, So have you
Speaker 1: got anything for me?
Speaker 3: Oh boy?
Speaker 4: It was?
Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, except for the COVID thing. It was
Speaker 3: except for having to follow COVID protocols, it was pretty
Speaker 3: It was a pretty smooth shoot.
Speaker 4: I'll say this.
Speaker 3: The Steve sequence we had to shoot in like two hours,
Speaker 3: which is very fast to have to shoot something. And
Speaker 3: that sequence and people who will see the movie will
Speaker 3: on the same way mean Steve sequence ends up killing
Speaker 3: but we weren't sure as we were shooting if we
Speaker 3: were like, we have no time to shoot this this
Speaker 3: set piece, and so that was one of those sequences
Speaker 3: that was like I was, I was nervous about it
Speaker 3: as we were shooting, just didn't have enough time. But
Speaker 3: then that guy brock really who plays Steve, was so funny. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think there wasn't. It was a pretty like, uh,
Speaker 3: drama free production. So I can't really think of an
Speaker 3: and it was just it was honestly just a real
Speaker 3: delight to get to make it. The whole the whole
Speaker 3: experience was really nice. So I don't I don't know
Speaker 3: if I think of anything, I'll let you know, up
Speaker 3: very bad at stories about the movies.
Speaker 1: You know, I just said, you're one of the best
Speaker 1: funniest storytellers of old time, and then you finished the
Speaker 1: plodcast beause I'm not very good at telling store no,
Speaker 1: I'm very bad.
Speaker 3: I also am really I don't remember jokes. I literally
Speaker 3: don't remember jokes. One was like Sally joke, I'm like,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you so much for being able to
Speaker 1: be here and talk about Bros. I am a huge
Speaker 1: fan of the film and I can't wait for the
Speaker 1: rest of the world to see it. I feel like
Speaker 1: it's that film like Bridesmaids for me that I'll keep rewatching.
Speaker 4: Oh that's awesome to hear. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Amazing, have a fun time in Australia talking to everyone.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they've all been very welcoming.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's been lovely.