What was your favorite item your character wore that really showed who he was? And when someone comes in from what he considers to be of a lower caliber class than him and they are succeeding more than him in either a love connection or romance, he tries to meddle in any of their pursuits and sabotage. He has to have the best parties, he has to be dressed the best.
His existence is dependent upon the gaze of others and is contingent upon feeling better than them to make himself feel better. And so, I took it from a place of he’s obsessed with everything superficial because he is very self-loathing and really has no self-esteem. No matter whether you’re gay or straight we know who that person that needs to feel better than or above someone else to combat their insecurities. And, as Andrew was discussing, the lack of straight people allows us to then oppress each other. He’s an antagonistic, vain, really superficial guy that is one of the social gatekeepers of Fire Island and helps to represent the classism that exists in that microcosm. What are the challenges of creating a less likable character in a comedy?
Nick, you introduced the film last night by telling us we might not be too fond of your character. © 2022 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved (From L-R): Margaret Cho, Tomas Matos, Bowen Yang, Joel Kim Booster, and Matt Rogers in the film FIRE ISLAND.
