'The Boys In The Band' Cast: Matt Bomer, Jim Parsons , Zachary Quinto, & More | Entertainment Weekly

[@charchaz00]

7:28 Andrews face when tuc was talking 🥰 they're so cute together

[@AGrrrlsTwoSoundCents]

It's so funny to watch this knowing that Tuc and Andrew are on the same zoom call in the same house, they must have had to separate by four floors to avoid hazards, lol

[@charchaz00]

I think tuc was in his house in LA and Andrew was back in New York at this point

[@snc0023]

They aren't in the same house - Andrew is at his own apartment in LA

[@userwww379]

how do you even know

[@lukaj679]

As both the child of addiction and struggling with my sexuality under a religion that hated me, I saw myself in most of these characters. A lot of people are lucky enough to not experience these things now or view it as cliche, but I've had these exact conversations with my closeted friends, been in panic attacks only to be offered a friend's anxiety medication because we're all medicated for the same reasons. I'm glad I found this movie.

[@dennisongtravels]

I’m with you friend. It truly felt good to be seen in a way. Sending you well wishes wherever you are.

[@gloriouslyimperfect]

You are loved. Lots of us here who value you just the way you are.

[@idcman6692]

Bro you not alone. I’m with you

[@TheLightShines]

What religion? So sorry this group has been treated horribly by religious. So have I. Much love and grace to you my friend❤️

[@lukaj679]

@@TheLightShines Seventh-day Adventism

[@Texaslawhorn]

I wish Mart Crowley were still alive to see this film version be released. It's great that he makes a small cameo in the bar scene. I also wish Natalie Wood were still with us - for many reasons - to speak about her views of this historic piece of art that she helped motivate and inspire Mart to create. She was a great support to him, and without her encouragement we might not have ever had the play and the resulting movie, both versions. ❤

[@chevychase]

Mart Crowley will live forever thru this wonderful play.

[@amonte5953]

Totally, forever !

[@SpankinHands]

Have you seen MAKING THE BOYS, a documentary about Crowley and the play? You will love him and the play, and the original scren adaptation even more.

[@leahredfox9765]

@@SpankinHands where can I find that documentary?

[@jeffwatkins352]

Wonderful interview! A friend, who hadn’t seen this new version but whom I’d shown the original film, griped, “Why do they have to ruin something that’s already perfect?” As a 68 year-old gay man, I had the privilege of seeing the Friedkin version in its initial release, which I watched many times in the theater, and have watched many times since on DVD. For me, this new take is admirable, a worthy successor, and I want to thank from the bottom of my heart everyone involved, on and off screen. Brilliant work! I have a personal story which goes directly to what the cast discussed about our history as gays. A college friend in of all places Pueblo, CO was the flamboyant “leader” of our own tight-knit tribe of gays. This was 1974. He courageously screened a 16mm print of TBITB in our school’s common room. You could cut the tension with a knife, college jocks standing on the audience’s periphery, scowling, arms crossed, only to walk away shaking their heads in disgust. There was no incident during the screening. But he walked from class the next day to find his VW Bug had been turned onto its roof by the jocks.

[@janiceash8701]

Thank you for your profound story.

[@joshknoll5172]

I had the privilege of seeing this on Broadway in 2018. This cast was amazing! I can't wait to see this movie.

[@Texaslawhorn]

I was fortunate enough to see the revival, too. They did a great job, and I am glad these men got to recreate their work on screen for a broader audience.

[@susannewolfsohn]

I went from Vienna to NYC only to watch Matt Bomer in this wonderful play. I was really blown away!

[@alexandrosfavros3338]

Josh Knoll I saw the original movie in 1972 which was alwready a few years old and have seen it about 50 times since and last night I saw the revival on Netflix and it was just as fabulous and I found I was wording everyones scene as I new the entire movie off by heart lol.

[@Lane_11]

I am so happy that Mart got to see this story, his story, told again in a more accepting time, and I am glad he got to receive the praise that he deserved for his work.❤

[@susannewolfsohn]

I had the wonderful opportunity to see this play twice on Broadway meeting all the Boys personally 5 days in raw at stage door! I went from Austria 🇦🇹 to NYC only to watch Matt Bomer and talking to him about the play made my so happy. I never saw a play like this so so deep going and he told my he felt the same. I'm very happy to watch it again.💖♥️🌈💝💗

[@Texaslawhorn]

I'm sure seeing Matt in person was worth the trip. ☺ I got to see the revival, too, and I look forward to seeing him and the other guys again in the movie!

[@susannewolfsohn]

@@Texaslawhorn Oh YESSS, it was! He always took time for his fans (they were they most ;-)), talking, laughing, making fotos., friendly... He was the only one who didi it EVERY DAY!

[@amonte5953]

Lucky you, Susanne !

[@tonistokes1790]

I thoroughly enjoyed The Boys in the Band and will be watching it again and again. For me it was a flashback to my first trip to NYC as an 8 year old and a tribute to my Uncle Earl. As Tuck said, gay men today are standing on the backs of those who came before them. Earl Gladstone was my grandmother’s best friend. He was born in, at the time the small Irish Catholic town of Smith Falls, Ontario, in the early 1920s, where everybody knew or was related to everybody. Earl moved to NYC upon completing high school. In his public life he was the head librarian in Asian (Chinese) studies at the New York Public Library. He spoke 7-8 languages. In his private life he would stop off at the bar for martinis on his way home from work. The love of his life and his ‘roommate’ was Nathaniel, who like Bernard in the movie, was black. So I appreciate that a black and Jewish man are in the play. Earl would come home and take off his suit, the way women take off their bras. He would then slip into a long colorful lounging robe (a long mou mou) for the evening. He had a good friend Margaret, who was Chinese. She would take care of his apartment, prepare the meals, do his laundry, etc, after her regular job. His social life consisted of parties with his friends, the queens. Unfortunately Earl saw them pass on, one by one, as AIDS hit NYC. He eventually succumbed to what I was told was, ‘pneumonia’. Margaret was with him until the end. I never saw The Boys in the Band on Broadway so I am so glad it was made into a movie, that maintains the feeling of a play. Kudos to you all. Brillant casting, acting, set direction, costumes, music, dancing... You captured a moment in time. You captured the feelings and emotions of men who could not live a true and authentic life, who could only be free in the presence of each other. I am not alone. There are many of us who had an Uncle Earl. I don’t know if ever imagined a day where there would be equal rights for all and a time when you could marry the person you loved. Embrace it and pray that Amy Coney Barrett is not confirmed as a Justice of SCOTUS.

[@lucasbrunoz]

16 minutes of interview until Matt says a word 😭

[@privmxlan1971]

THIS CAST IS EVERYTHING AND MORE

[@CyeOutsider]

What a wonderful group of talented men.

[@ramalamadingdong7576]

Loved this interview (and movie) so much. Such fantastic actors and lovely, fun, candid men. I wonder if they all think Matt Bomer is just so incredibly gorgeous and thoughtful and sweet they just can not. Oh, just me? Ok. Special shout out to Jim Parsons’ bed throw pillows!! ❤️😂

[@netalicht]

Big HUGE kudos to the interviewer! Loved this

[@rezt1630]

What a perfect remake. Love the cast, costumes, set design.

[@StarsEunice]

I love Matt so much, he didn’t talked much in this interview, he is just so sweet..

[@ladynekochan]

I'm so excited to watch The Boys in the Band.

[@rezt1630]

I wish I had seen the play. I Envy people who got to see this live on stage.

[@Leftatalbuquerque]

What I also loved: the unsung homage to Jimmy Webb and Richard Harris at the end of the balcony scene - it was 1968, after all!

[@janiceash8701]

Mc Arthur's Park is melting

[@jeanniegathany5923]

What a great weekend treat! Watching Boys in the band! Go Netflex! Love you wonderful actors!

[@bea1092]

this is gonna be so good im so excited pls

[@blainevanity6]

I absolutely LOVED the movie

[@teeniebeenie8774]

awesome! congrats to u all....u blew me away, great drama, i saw the original eons ago on bway....stunning piece, god bless matt crowley.

[@JorgeDiaz-mu4sp]

I saw the original show and I'm looking forward to seeing this re-make!! Knowing Jim Parsons from Big Bang, I look forward to seeing him doing this show. I'm waiting to see him get away from the "know-it-all" character with such an aggravating personality. I've seen a few of the others in short films and on television but I'm not as familiar with their work as I am with Jim Parsons' work. Tuk Watkins was in a short film where he played a man who was obsessed with a past boyfriend and he takes another man on a journey. I think Tuk Watkins did such a powerful job in that and I'm waiting to see how he comes across in this work!!!

[@Leftatalbuquerque]

I find the acting in this version so much better than the original. The actors are in their characters much more and the lines LAND when they are delivered - these people are in the same collective moments and are actually talking to each other. The original confused me and I never "got" it, and I've seen it several times over the decades. I think I was shown more moments this time around that allowed me to actually LIKE these characters and care for them, whereas the original really left me cold - they were attacking each other suddenly without any build-up, without allowing me to glimpse some ideas as to WHY they would be suddenly loud or saying something that was outside of the moment that I was witnessing. This version has a much better flow. Lines are delivered out of the sense of a more natural conversation here, whereas in the original, I found a lot of moments seemed forced and arbitrary. Good director!! Though I do miss the Marlene Dietrich poster...!

[@mahikacho]

👌👌👌

[@luluguru008]

❤️💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍 Like Tuc said, certain movies need to be in the pantheon of LGBTQ history. This is definitely one, along with Stonewall, The Normal Heart, Pride, MILK, Bent, Brokeback Mountain, Latter Days, and like Charlie said, as the movie reaches a global audience, it joins other movies from other countries, like God's Own Country, Walk On Water, the Wedding Banquet, The Bubble...and many more. I love what Matt said and others echoed, that Mart and others in those early generations invented their own identities and became their own role models, just as many today living in other countries still oppressive as it was, will be remembered as Mart and generations of pioneers are remembered. Bravo! 👏❤️🙏

[@emmabug9953]

To Wong Foo!

[@luluguru008]

@@emmabug9953 Too many to list them all. Feel free to add to the list. Indeed google top LGBTQ movies, and you will get many different lists from 50 to 500.

[@Leftatalbuquerque]

@@luluguru008 My forever fave will be Maurice.

[@pedrodamata6550]

I love The boys in the band. Thanks for this.

[@strathernian]

absolutely brilliant conversation.

[@MrJaysVentVideos]

As a Gay man from the Era of the 60's and 70's it was me living my life over again. I liked the idea of telling and retelling my life as a Homosexual living in NYC- I consider myself very fortunate but also very sad that I have lost many of my friends to that era. Players to Mort for doing such a wonderful work of art. There is so much more shit to tell each area of this fucked up country had a Boys in the Band story to tell, some bigger then others but still yet their own story. I am 75 and proud to say I have made it this far.

[@samworthington9868]

I can't wait until 30th September. The boys in the band will be fab ❤️💖

[@janiceash8701]

It is

[@SpankinHands]

I liked the movie, but would have LOVED to see a filmed stage revival with this cast. For obsessives, the documentary MAKING THE BOYS recounts Mart Crowley coming to NY in the 1960s with just one script and how nobody wanted to touch it. When it finally premiered, buzz was so hot, there were lines around the block. It follows casting -- which in the 60s could end careers.

[@randychampion184]

Charlie is so cute omg!!!

[@thriftinbilly]

Zachary Quinto lives in a movie set

[@Pi-d1s]

Entertainment weekly please do one like this with fellow travelers cast please

[@amonte5953]

Dear cast members - film director and crew members You made a wonderful work in the film - I have watched many of you in different films and tv roles and YOU all shine !!! Many thanks for the commitment to be OUT threre for young LGBTQ community ! The interviewer made also a great job and Mart Crowley s contribution will be appreciated for ever ! From Buenos Aires, Argentina, with LOVE

[@zeefanforever]

This movie was made so well.

[@lalitharavindran]

Happy to see none of the participants on this call have book shelves in the background which is somewhat of a norm. Interesting conversation.

[@missymonkey]

I'm sure it's a coincidence but did anyone catch that the apartment number is 4B? ❤tbbt

[@teeniebeenie8774]

great interviewer !

[@sandracarrasco2016]

Great interviewer

[@jonathanlopez6953]

After watching this film, it has a prologue part , part 2 and an epilogue.

[@a.a1683]

Is there going to be part 2 ?

[@baishakhikarmakar4723]

Love this movie

[@meropale]

I absolutely love the first film version from 1970 which is one of my favorite movies. All of the actors in that movie were reprising their roles from the play version rather than being replaced by a big name actor, so it's a *fantastic* piece of history. Everyone should watch it! My hope is that people will want to search out the first version now that the Netflix version is out. I might be a bit too optimistic. I am not in that much of a rush to watch this new version. I don't really see the reason for an update, unless people really can't tolerate the production values of older movies, in this case a fifty year old movie. Does everything need to be re-made? A lot of people say that the movie/play is dated and gay people are not like that anymore or whatever, but it's still *very* relevant. What speaks more to its relevance than people being here fifty or so years later and discussing it? A lot of people see the movie as depressing but I find it very uplifting and hopeful at the end. It asks a question and it is left at that. I don't see any problem at all with femme or sissy gay characters even though they're often seen as negatively stereotypical. What can be offensive is two-dimensional characters played for gags, but here the characters feel deeply human. One thing I don't get is how the original Boys in the Band is seen as dated whereas Brokeback Mountain is not, even though both deal with some of the same issues, including self-hatred, and life in the closet. Why is one representation seen as more acceptable than the other?

[@RicardoSalazarRickSalazar]

I watched first the Netflix version, and was curious to watch the original film, so you are not too optimistic LOL. Maybe the Netflix version was made thinking in a bigger audience, specially now we are living the pandemics, so it could be educational. The new version is kind of "lighter" and the original one is much more dramatic, it is more intense. Also, of course it is depressing how not could be? see a group of men not able to really live their lives just because they are gays? being attached to a over romanticized idea of the "love of their lives" with a straight guy, an impossible love. The original version is not dated, but it shows how was gay life on that time, before Stonewall, before AIDS, before same se marriage.

[@robyoung9968]

A great remake of the original, I loved it..

[@fernandoweckdesenna9093]

Assisti nesta madrugada de sete de outubro de 2.020. Fiquei em total êxtase. Com sessenta anos vi muito das mudanças da assim chamada "cena gay" em Brasília, capital do Brasil, e realmente presenciei muitas festas com vários aspectos deste filme. Aliás, tendo assistido o original, não fiquei nem um pouco surpreso com o maravilhoso trabalho desta nova versão. Parabéns a todos os envolvidos. Aqui, do Brasil, Fernando&Luciano.

[@RicardoSalazarRickSalazar]

Nunca visitei Brasilia, mais estive muitas vezes no Brasil pelo trabalho do meu pai. Eu achei que Rio deveria haver sido diferente mais aberto nao foi? Comprendo que a repressao existe ainda agora, masi sempre tive a impressao que o Rio era mais legal. Desculpa meu protugues, nao escrivo muito.

[@fernandoweckdesenna9093]

@@RicardoSalazarRickSalazar sem problemas com seu português. Entendi. Nasci no Rio. Vivi somente minha infância e um período de 10 anos em Copacabana no meu segundo casamento. O Brasil vive como uma sociedade pendular. Ora acolhedor ora repressor. Muito do que se diz do Rio é verdade. Mas será preciso saber onde e quando estar a vontade. O machismo tóxico ainda persiste. Já Brasília podemos dizer que é mais arejada porque vive se em grupos. Mas no geral também não é aberta como deveria. Obrigado pelo comentário. Aqui Fernando&Luciano.

[@splep.]

charlie mentioning poland and russia oh my god,,, that rly touched me so much

[@samworthington9868]

Omg zach looks so gorgeous. Absolutely loved this 💖💖

[@g4l173]

These men are so beautiful

[@ta21l]

I thought this movie was going to get some awards buzz for acting. Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto (scene stealer), and Andrew Rannels were stand outs. I was hoping for more openly LGBTQ actors to get nominated for the Oscars. I think Ian McKellen (2001) and Angelina Jolie (2008) are the last openly out actors who had been nominated for an Oscar recently. Some say Lady Gaga but many doubt her bisexuality including Jolie. John Gielgud (1982) was the first openly gay man to win for supporting actor but he kept it relatively private in fear of his career waning. Still no openly gay, lesbian, or trans actor has won. If we count Jolie’s bi identity as legit, she’s the only out bi actor who won in 1999. * I’m not discrediting bisexuality or pansexuality, its real. I’m only putting it as an asterisk for Jolie and Gaga based on how the LGBTQ community perceived them, what Jolie & Gaga said publicly, and their past relationships/ engagements/ marriages.

[@quekbridget5988]

The idea though who they marry doesnt mean they are no longer bisexual, it's maybe some bisexuals are more interested in men then women ( for bisexual women). So well even though attraction is there it is often lesser and not well as prominent as who they marry. There are some actresses who date men and women openly though, like kristen stewart

[@judinasiv]

I never saw a play or an original, but why in the name of Alexander the Great I do think Harold will call Michael because it is the rule of the game? I cant help but keep thinking he s really into Michael no matter what things they say each other? It s just Michael doesnt want it

[@johnramirez4990]

I LOVED IT.......

[@Guynami]

What did Jim say at 6:49?

[@eimhearodalaigh3677]

To compare this wonderful film with all the raw emotional scars of the characters due to how society treated the LGBTQAI+ 🏳️‍🌈 community in the 1960s and how they are treated in many parts of the world today to Schitt’s Creek where there’s no homophobia, shows us how different the world would be with acceptance, empathy and love of each other.

[@Genkimark]

Zac sure is a Hairy Mary, lol.

[@fuckwit107]

A smokin one too 😳

[@mahikacho]

Loved the movie

[@victoriabyrne7961]

I am so excited for this

[@shimashimmer5081]

Why Tuc and Andrew are in different zooms?! Are they in different rooms?! I thought they live together

[@Sb-ud2ou]

I’m assuming it’s to help focus on the two of them as separate actors, rather then as a couple. Also I’m sure tech wise it’s easier with the questions and what not.

[@charchaz00]

I think Andrew lives in New York and tuc is in LA

[@sihyeoning]

they just live in different cities !

[@Leah-k1k]

They do live together, andrew was just away to film black monday

[@RicardoSalazarRickSalazar]

I watched first this version of the film, and I liked it. After, I watch the original one. Not so sure if the Netflix version was made for a major audience or because we are in the middle of this fucking pandemic, but it was kind of "lighter" version. The original one was really shocking, I was kind of horrified with the scene when the "straight fiend" attacked the "effeminate" character, instead of jump over the aggressor his friends were scared and helpless, that would happen in 1968, I'm sure it was like that, because it was so difficult to be confident as a gay man. I like both versions, recommend both of them. Great actors in both of them.

[@katekramer7679]

I didn't see the play and was wondering what changes had been made. Interesting.

[@edilson_lino3]

All so sweety and lovely 😍😍🌈

[@MichaelMorales-in6di]

Loved the Movie!!😀

[@StarsEunice]

Lolll Andrew is such a diva

[@SalvatoreEscoti]

I was wondering why the remanke is also set in 1968, why is ist so? How would the movie have been if set in 2019?

[@AtWordsPoetic]

Considering the play reflects a slice of gay life, pre-Stonewall, moving it to 2019 would require basically an entire rewrite or new play overall given all that's happened and progressed in 50 years

[@SalvatoreEscoti]

@@AtWordsPoetic I don't agree. I think most of the dramaturgy could also work in 2019.

[@RicardoSalazarRickSalazar]

@@SalvatoreEscoti not really. Imagine being a gay man in 1968, there were many issues that now are totally different. Now same se marriage is legal which is a fact that you could not even fantasize on that time, what about the room mates and the phone message? any phone operator would even care in 2019 in NYC a message like that, nobody would imagine to make such a racist joke, not even drunk and many other situations. It would be a different story, different everything.

[@SalvatoreEscoti]

@@RicardoSalazarRickSalazar I think you overestimate our current times. In 1969 nobody could have imagined a wrecking ball like Trump for president!!

[@Kelvyoliveiragamer]

saw "the boys" i thought it was about the Supes

[@bellodulce23]

In the middle is Terrible Ivonne 😎

[@richardherrell4770]

Play was already dated in 1968 and it's way dated now. So much more going on then. People need to realize it's not a picture of gay life in 1968.

[@fromthehaven94]

If you have any specific experiences that in any way contradict from the fictional play/movie Boys in the Band, please elaborate. Every article I've come across describing what life was like in 1968, or pre-Stonewall for gay men implies it wasn't easy. Legal discrimination, shame, things like that.

[@richardherrell4770]

@@fromthehaven94 What I said is it only represents those people, Author was in his late 30s when it came out. Those of who were teens and 20s did not have that experience. Read away, but I lived it.

[@Paulinrnke]

But the truth of these people still is applicable and important today. There are still many of us who can see parts of us there. How they dealt with their situations and how we do are timeless. I get something new every time I encounter this work. (And I first eagerly watched it as a very closeted teen when the movie first came out so it’s been a while )

[@pamelasevilla8501]

tommy sotomayor

[@cadicorniche]

Nothing will ever outdo the original 70s film.

[@fabiesque]

Jim Parson's acting is soooo lame....come on!

[@tenfourten8438]

no..? are u serious

[@fromthehaven94]

Says the Sheldon Cooper superfan.

[@hondacivic-sl5wo]

bestie… no 💛

[@literally4891]

@@hondacivic-sl5wo you are my favourite person ever

[@timw2498]

The remake was completely miss cask. Jim Parsons was a mess. He’s too queeny to be Michael.

[@lanagaga7504]

icons. i need a whole series for the detailed character down from the play

[@lanagaga7504]

my dream is to have money enough and fly to nyc and live witness this play