I had never seen myself reflected on screen before and that’s what really changed my life and my conception of what was possible. I mean, I can draw a straight line from (her 1994 sitcom) “All-American Girl” to “Fire Island,” because it really gave me a window into the possibility that I had as an Asian American in this industry. Q: You grew up in Plainfield and became part of the theater scene in Chicago after college.Ī: Really the thing that inspired me to get out of Plainfield was Margaret Cho. And to Searchlight’s credit, they were very open to letting us go there.Īndrew (the film’s director Andrew Ahn) asked very early on, ‘Can I show (penis)?’ and they said, ‘You can have as many butts as you want, but no (penis).’ (Laughs) And we said, “We’ll take it!” So that was the extent of the discussions of how explicit we could go.įrom left: Bowen Yang and Joel Kim Booster as best pals navigating the dating and hook-up scene in "Fire Island." (Jeong Park/Searchlight Pictures) We wanted it to feel like a real Fire Island experience and we were very upfront with the studio about that. We didn’t want to shy away from the realities of what it is to be on that island, both the sex stuff but also the racism and classism and body expectations. How did you go about deciding things like how much nudity to show?Ī: We didn’t want to shy away from anything.
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Q: The movie is this combination of very sweet and very horny. So when I sent it to Searchlight, I just took out the chapter breaks and squashed it together - and it worked! So when I was developing it, in the back of my mind I was always structuring it as a movie that I would eventually be able to sell.
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Q: How did it go from a series to a film?Ī: One of the appealing things about the Quibi of it all is that the rights reverted back to you after two years, no matter what, and you could take these short-form quick bites and turn them into whatever you want and repackage and resell them. And I happened to be in the right place at the right time. There was a timing thing, certainly: Bowen’s star was on the rise (having joined “SNL”) and the holiday movie “Happiest Season” had just been a big hit for Hulu, so they were hungry for another gay rom-com. Because we hadn’t shot anything, it was pretty simple.Īnd then we sent it out and Searchlight very quickly snatched it up. We were supposed to shoot in the summer of 2020, and because of the pandemic we had to postpone, and that ended up being sort of fortuitous. Q: When Quibi collapsed, did all the rights revert to you?Ī: Yeah. So I thought it was over, that was the end of it.
I wrote it, it was greenlit - and then Quibi crashed. And then Quibi came about (the short-lived streaming service that specialized in episodes chopped up into short “quick bites”) and, say what you will about Quibi’s eventual demise and whether or not it was a good idea, they were really taking chances on new talent and I was one of those people. It was seen as very niche and unsellable. So I had originally written this as a half-hour comedy pilot, on spec, and I took it out and tried to sell it. I had written for television, for “The Other Two” and for “Big Mouth” and “Billy on the Street.” I hadn’t written a film script prior to this. Joel Kim Booster, who grew up in Plainfield, Illinois and got his start in comedy in Chicago. Yang’s character isn’t looking for casual sex he wants the fantasy of “kissing in the rain and (someone) standing outside my window with a boom box or confessing things in a gazebo.” Booster plays a guy slightly more cynical about the whole pairing off thing, and instead encourages his friend to embrace the hookup potential around him: “You are going to have missionary, vanilla sex with the man - men - of your dreams.” They each find someone to be with in the end, but it’s the central friendship between Yang and Booster that carries the movie. Though it touches on everything from beauty standards to classism to racism - the snobs in the film are ripped, white and obnoxiously rich - “Fire Island” (which premieres on Hulu on June 3) is resolutely a rom-com with a tender heart. Both sweet and filled with spiky humor, it comes from screenwriter Joel Kim Booster, who also stars alongside Margaret Cho and “Saturday Night Live” cast member Bowen Yang, the latter of whom is one of Booster’s closest friends - on screen and in real life. There is banter aplenty, a lot of it dirty. The romantic comedy “Fire Island” is a very gay, very horny, very charming riff on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” set on present-day Fire Island in New York.