Joel Kim Booster on Billy Eichner's Dismissing “Disposable” Projects

Joel Kim Booster is weighing in on Billy Eichner’s recent comments regarding his upcoming LGBTQ rom-com Bros getting a theatrical release. Booster, the writer and star of this summer’s Hulu film Fire Island, took to Twitter on Sunday to offer his thoughts about Eichner recently speaking to Variety about his Universal Pictures release, Bros, which is touted as the first LGBTQ romantic comedy to receive a theatrical release from a studio. Eichner told the publication that his film felt historic because it would be hitting theaters, rather than being “some streaming thing which feels disposable, or which is like one of a million Netflix shows.” Social media users wondered whether Eichner might have been referring to such Hulu projects as Fire Island, an updated take on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice featuring a group of gay friends enjoying a getaway at the titular beach destination in New York, or Hulu’s 2020 holiday film Happiest Season starring Kristen Stewart. This apparently led Booster to explain that he had been without cell service in the desert when the Eichner interview published and that the Billy on the Street star, in addition to being his friend and first comedy boss, supported him throughout…
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