Nicholas Stoller, the director of the film Bros, makes fun of straight actors who portray gays for the Oscars (including a certain policeman)

According to Bros. director Nicholas Stoller, Hollywood queerbaiting is demonstrated in the film My Policeman.

 

The term “queerbaiting” has gained widespread acceptance to the point where real-life people are now accused of engaging in behaviour that was formerly reserved for fictitious characters. But it’s undeniable that straight people in the real world have benefited in some manner from being gay in order to advance their careers—particularly straight actors who play LGBTQ+ roles in order to win awards.

 

The much-discussed “first” popular homosexual rom-com, Bros, skewers that tendency. Recently, director Nicholas Stoller spoke with Jack Smart of The A.V. Club about the scene. The spoof of Brokeback Mountain that is referenced throughout Bros. is “very funny because we were doing it and while we were shooting it, I was like, ‘This is kind of an old joke,'” he remarked. And this year, there are quite a few of them! Every year, a select films, such as My Policeman, aim to win the Oscars.

 

For the record, David Dawson, Rupert Everett, and Emma Corrin are among the My Policeman cast members who apparently identify as LGBTQ+. The actor who plays the title character, Harry Styles, has refrained from publicly naming himself and has been accused of “queerbaiting” as a result. According to this writer’s investigation, the elder version of the policeman, Linus Roache, looks to be heterosexual.

 

Stoller states that they planned to film a real-life version of their Brokeback Mountain parody, but “we could not locate any straight actor ready to do it.” This is perhaps more intriguing. Because we’re mocking the Oscars, which means no actor wants that, he continues, “and I’m sure they’ll all just move on to play gay parts. No one was in sight. And Billy and I currently have a lot of celebrity contacts!

 

“We were going to make it extremely lovely and have, you know, sun coming through,” the director said. I looked into farms and other things. But then we couldn’t find anyone, and it started to be funny,” he says. “And Billy was much more sensitive to it than I am, so that was another factor. We were making fun of the idea that so many films portraying the LGBT experience are tragedies and are very tragic as opposed to just being playful, fun, and amusing.