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- Hey, this is Rich from Jezebel.

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I'm here with Luke MacFarlane.

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- Hey, Rich.

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- So, we're gonna talk about "Bros."

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- Let's do it, bro.

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- [Rich] Well, when people ask
you what the elevator pitch

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or whatever this movie is,
how do you describe it?

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- [Luke] When two emotionally
unavailable men decide

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that they want to be emotionally
unavailable together.

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- A lot has been made of the
historic nature of this movie.

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It's kind of the first
romcom that we've seen

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featuring two men.

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Did the historic nature of it at all

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factor into your decision to do it?

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- No, let's be honest, a feature film

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produced by Judd Apatow,
directed by Nick Stoller.

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This is a highlight of any actor's

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to be in a studio featured
film with those names.

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- There's a lot of kind
of funny gags in the movie

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in addition to the relationship,

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one of them is consistently
making fun of Hallmark

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and it's kind of inclusive programming.

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You're a veteran of Hallmark.

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- I am I've done 13 movies with them.

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A lot of people ask me is like,

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"Did you suggest all this Hallmark stuff?"

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I did not.

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It was in the script.

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The thing about Billy Eichner,

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if you know anything about
him is he has made a career

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out of commenting on
things that are happening

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in popular culture and
sort of making fun of them.

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- Did you relate to the
"Bros" script at all?

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This idea of emotional
unavailability coming together

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and how that kind of plays
out when men get together?

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- Yeah, totally.

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My character, Aaron, kind
of starts off in one place

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and ends up in another place.

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I think it's indicative of
a lot of men in our culture,

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not just gay men.

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That kind of wear sort
of protective shield

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of sort of like appearing tough,

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appearing sort of emotionally unavailable

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and I think all men in our culture

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are kind of guilty of that.

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- [Rich] Do you think of
this movie doing things

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that other movies about gay culture don't?

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Just beyond the kind of the broad strokes

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of the historic nature,
that kind of fine detail.

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- There's a lot of comments

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about sort of every member
of the LGBT community,

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but I think one of the
unique things about "Bros"

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is because our entire cast was all LGBTS,

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we are comfortable kind of
poking fun at each other.

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- And I think I get that something

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that I really appreciate about this movie,

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which is that it is
obviously intelligible.

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Anybody could kind of watch it

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and understand what's going on,

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but I also think that the movie

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doesn't really pander to straight people.

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I think it speaks directly
to a queer audience

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a lot of the time.

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- Yeah, it was a really
hard needle to thread.

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So, yeah, we have to make
sure the queer community

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feels seen and represented
but it is for everybody.

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My mother came premier here.

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She loved it.

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She was took a lot of photos.

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She was very curious about poppers.

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- So, what did you tell her?

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- I told her I don't do them.

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(Rich laughing)
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