Although, just like the characters in the movie, I recognize that it can be toxic, too. MW: Let’s take it to Fire Island, a place I love. It’s taken a long time to get this made, it’s been a long time getting anything of mine made in this industry at all, so it feels very gratifying. JOEL KIM BOOSTER: No, I feel insane, it’s a lot, but I’m very happy with the response so far. METRO WEEKLY: As a producer, writer, and star of the movie, are you chill about a big project like this dropping, or are you freaking out? I accomplished that, because I do love that place so much.” Fire Island: Bowen Yang, Tomas Matos, Matt Rogers, Torian Miller, Joel Kim Booster and Margaret Cho - Photo: Jeong Park / Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures “That really makes me happy, because it was not a given that they would let us shoot there, and I had to really make a promise to honor the island with this movie.
“This movie’s a love letter to the island, and most of the business owners on the island have seen the movie, and are really pleased with it,” he says. But we got it done, and the community, for the most part, was really excited and supportive for us to be there.”Īnd now audiences around the world, as well as on the island, seem ready to embrace the film. There were several days where the weather really screwed us, and we had to change course, and flip flop days of what we were shooting.
FUCKING MY BEST FRIEND GAY XXX COMIC MOVIE
But the island is not made to shoot a movie on, and we were up against the elements, too. The cast stayed there in a house together, which was fun. “There are no cars on the island, or anything like that. “It was a logistical nightmare,” he says, recalling how they had to ferry in the crew and the equipment every day, and then ferry them out again. Postmates Serves Up A ‘Bottom-Friendly Menu’ for Prideīut first, Booster can relish that he and his Fire Island fam made the film they set out to make, despite the enormous challenges of shooting on a stretch of island a few miles offshore from another island. And he continues to break down barriers on his new Netflix standup comedy special Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual, debuting June 21, within weeks of Fire Island. Often recalling his growing up gay, Asian, and adopted by a white family in Illinois, his jokes can be as insightfully honest as they are funny. Success was seemingly destined for Booster, whose standup put him on the map a decade ago. It’s been a long time coming to see any of my work actually on the screen.” I’ve taken other shows out that have sold or been in development, and then died…. “I had a pilot that was at FOX, then was at Comedy Central, that then, after years of development, died.
FUCKING MY BEST FRIEND GAY XXX COMIC TV
Indeed, he’s been consistently stealing scenes in supporting roles on TV comedies like Shrill and Sunnyside, while working to create his own show. Their combative romance plays out as Noah, his best friend Howie (Yang), and their chosen family of friends enjoy what might be their last trip out together as a group.įor Booster, a booked-and-busy comedian with a stacked list of television credits, Fire Island‘s June premiere on Hulu represents the triumph of crossing the finish line with one of his own productions. Booster’s busybody Noah offers a take on Lizzy Bennet, with Ricamora’s icy Will a spin on Mr. Richly established onscreen, the seductive location serves as the perfect race- and class-conscious backdrop for Booster’s modern rom-com adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Republicans Want to Ban Children from Drag Showsįire Island: Bowen Yang, Tomas Matos, Matt Rogers, Torian Miller and Joel Kim Booster - Photo: Jeong Park / Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures “Because I find that such a funny part of the Fire Island experience.”ĭefinitely, deer grazing peacefully alongside the boardwalks that wind through the Pines are a signature element of the island’s natural beauty - just as much as the ravishing, nearly naked crowd at each week’s underwear party.
“I sent the camera crew out, and I was like, ‘Please just find a deer,'” he says. “I really wanted a deer in the movie,” says Fire Island director Andrew Ahn of his search for the Pines’ fabled wild fauna.ĭirecting a fabulous cast - including Bowen Yang, Conrad Ricamora, Margaret Cho, Matt Rogers, Nick Adams, and the film’s writer, producer, and star Joel Kim Booster - Ahn, known for the acclaimed gay coming-of-age feature Spa Night, had only a few weeks of shooting on the island to grab all the footage they needed. Somewhere in the Fire Island Pines last summer, while throngs of gay men and friends flocked to the island’s sandy shores seeking sex and paradise, a film crew was out stalking deer. Fire Island: Joel Kim Booster - Photo: Taylor Miller