Get your tickets for the last ferry, because the long-awaited trailer for Joel Kim Booster’s film Fire Island is finally here!
A modern take on the classic Jane Austen novel “Pride and Prejudice,” “Fire Island” focuses on two gay best friends, Noah (Booster) and Howie ( Bowen Yang), who take a trip to the Pines, a hamlet on New York’s Fire Island that’s a hotspot for queer culture. Over the course of their vacation, they party with friends and develop flirtations with two other, significantly wealthier vacationers, Will (Conrad Ricamora) and Charlie (James Scully). The film also features Yang’s longtime “Las Culturistas” podcast co-host Matt Rogers, Margaret Cho, Nick Adams, Tomás Matos and Torian Miller in supporting roles.
“I got to play this character in Fire Island where it was not trauma-based, but it was still something so grounded and still something that I had to really dig into myself to take out, and it was such an educational, wonderful, challenging thing,” Yang said. “I got to work with Andrew on this comedy where he was able to sort of marry those two things together because you still kind of do need the trauma background in order to contextualize queer joy. But that’s what makes queer joy so much more impactful, powerful, meaningful. It needs the underbelly of the suffering.”
Directed by Spa Night director Andrew Ahn and written by Booster himself, Fire Island premieres on Hulu June 3.
I must say it’s a breath of fresh air to see a gay comedy featuring two Asian gay men as the leads. It’s been a long time coming, and I hope we’ll get to see more cinematic stories featuring queer people of color sooner rather than later.
Check out the trailer below…
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