I find that once you break through that facade … you can meet very interesting people and have relationships that can last. I’ve made good friends that I’ve met through these apps. They’re trying to present themselves as something that they want to be. But I think it’s totally correct - I do think people put on a facade on the app. Sometimes, meeting people through them, you get a sense of a new place in a different way. It’s whatever floats your boat.Įrlingur Thoroddsen: I like to use them if I’m traveling. However, a very quick way to get fun, sexy things to happen is to use an app. … I’ve never needed an app for fun, sexy things to happen. It feels like everybody’s putting their best foot forward in this inauthentic way. There’s something very forced about it, to me. I’ve always found I’m quite the social person, anyway, so I’ve never had an issue meeting people. I like to be a bit more tapped into someone. I don’t have any principled objections to the apps, I’ve just always found that I can’t read someone’s energy from an app. I’m the first one on my friends’ phones like, “Show me, show me, show me!” Do you have principled objections to the idea?
Describe the most memorable experience you’ve had meeting someone on an app.Ĭarter Smith: Like Logan, I’m a serial monogamist, and I have not met someone on an app.Īugustus Prew: Neither have I. The Times gathered Prew, Evans, writer Erlingur Thoroddsen and director Carter Smith over bloody marys and vodka sodas at Rocco’s West Hollywood outpost to discuss “Midnight Kiss,” the politics of slasher movies and the challenges still facing gay men in pop culture. Joined by Hannah (Ayden Mayeri), Zachary (Chester Lockhart) and Joel’s new fiancé, Logan (Lukas Gage), the friends’ relationships fray as their plans for a wild night out descend into terror. In other words, “Midnight Kiss,” which arrives Friday on Hulu, gleefully remixes familiar genre tropes with distinctly gay subject matter, delving into the use of hookup apps and the pitfalls of open relationships while coining the hilariously ribald phrase “psychopath bottom.” It stars Augustus Prew (“ The Morning Show”) as Cameron, an aspiring artist who reluctantly agrees to join the crew’s annual getaway, and Scott Evans (“ Grace and Frankie”) as his uptight ex, Joel. And “Scream’s” white mask has been replaced with a sly reference to the popular kink known as “ pup play.” Their cabin in the woods is a rambling, ultra-modern manse in Palm Springs. “Midnight Kiss,” the latest, New Year’s Eve-set installment of Blumhouse’s horror anthology “Into the Dark,” is a B-grade slasher in the tradition of drive-in theaters and late-night TV: Friends hole up in a remote house for the weekend and find themselves being picked off, one by one, by a masked marauder. Nick Adams (Sex & the City 2), Tomas Matos ( The Marvelous Mrs Maisel) and Matt Rogers ( I Love That For You) also star.The following contains minor spoilers from Hulu’s “Into the Dark”: “Midnight Kiss.”
How To Get Away With Murder star Cornad Ricamora plays Will, while You star James Scully is Charlie. Margaret Cho, star of Face/Off, Sex and the City, The Flight Attendant, All American Girl and 30 Rock plays the group’s enthusiastic host Erin. and Big Mouth while Yang has been in The Outs, The Other Two and The Lost City and has had various roles on Saturday Night Live.
Booster has appeared in the TV series Sunnyside, Santa Inc. The Fire Island cast is headed up by writer and actor Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang, who play Noah and Howie. There are many of us out here living our lives joyfully.” Fire island cast
I want people to come away from this movie feeling the joy of our experiences and that it’s not all tragic. “I think there are so many movies about the gay experience that are fraught with people who are unsure if they’re happy being gay or struggling with coming out.
“I want people - especially gay men, especially queer people - to walk away from the movie happy that they’re gay,” Joel Kim Booster revealed. But not all the vacationers are pleased to see the arrival of the ragtag bunch. As they party with friends they meet two other, wealthier, holidaymakers Will (Conrad Ricamora) and Charlie (James Scully) and flirtations reach fever pitch.
Fire Island sees gay best friends Noah (Joel Kim Booster) and Howie (Bowen Yang) take a trip to The Pines, a hamlet on New York’s Fire Island that’s a hotspot for queer culture.