Billy Eichner credits “a truly life-changing, insanely wonderful acting teacher” with helping him find the courage to be who he was.
Actor and comedian Billy Eichner at the Peninsula Hotel Sept. 15, 2022, in Chicago. His new movie is"Bros."
Eichner more or less performed the entire pitch meeting as a one-man show. And then “they basically bought it right there in the room,” he says.And here we are. Opening in theaters Sept. 30, “Bros” is an R-rated romantic comedy about two New Yorkers finding each other through the maze of their clashing personalities and expectations.
Eichner acknowledges that he “ignored love and romance for many years.” He made a name for himself in the other direction: comic impatience, wound tightly and ready to spring.
He came out as gay sophomore year to his friends, a year later to his parents. He credits “a truly life-changing, insanely wonderful acting teacher,” Mary M. Poole, now retired, with helping him find the courage to be who he was, and who he wanted to be.“She really did change my life and opened me up as a human being,” he says. He pauses, which you notice because Eichner doesn’t over-pause conversationally. “I get super emotional talking about her.
In “Bros,” Eichner’s character Bobby hosts a popular, quippy podcast and, early in the story, lands a job running an LGBTQ history museum, strapped for funds en route to its gala opening. That’s plot B; plot A in the Eichner/Stoller screenplay is the push-pull relationship between emotionally guarded, commitment-averse Bobby and lawyer Aaron , a strapping gym rat who loves “The Hangover” and likes Bobby. But the two men’s vibes, upbringings and pop-cultural savvy exist in separate worlds.
The writing took the better part of a year in between other commitments. It was, Eichner says, “a two-way education process. Nick showed me how to write and structure a major studio screenplay. And I taught him about gay culture.”
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