But, as I often tell my straight friends, we’re still men. “And two men together is a very unique, specific romantic situation. “We have our own rules about what’s ethical or not ethical, in terms of dating and commitment and monogamy,” Eichner adds. And at the end of the day, they’re the same - and different.” “And Billy came into this saying, ‘No! It’s super different.’ I kind of went to a class taught by him where he explains, in great detail, all the differences. “I did come into this being like, ‘Well, all relationships, whether straight or gay or whatever, are, on some fundamental level, the same,’” says Stoller.
Stoller, who directed Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors, had to shake off some universalist impulses to co-write and direct Bros, which is getting a big push from Universal Studios. “But what I told him right off the bat is, ‘If we’re going to do this, you have to understand that this is not as simple as doing When Harry Met Sally and swapping in two men.'” “I knew it was such a huge opportunity,” says Eichner, the star and co-writer of Bros, due out Sept. Billy Eichner had one lesson he wanted to impart to Nick Stoller as they attempted to write what would become the first gay romantic comedy release by a major studio: Love is, in fact, not love.
