Was george actually gay in my best friends wedding

In , especially in romantic comedies, gay best friends were never sexualized. Yes, we don’t get any interiority to his actual sex life as a gay man. Still, trying to sell him as a sexual prospect for the largest A-list movie star at the time, Julia Roberts, is a half-step in the right direction. Enter Rupert Everett as Julianne’s gay, charismatic confidant, George.

“We expanded his character,” Hogan explains. In the world of My Best Friend’s Wedding, aside from Michael (who, after listening to Jules speak about George, believed him to be gay), no one really seems to consider George being gay, and the film itself doesn’t seem to draw much attention to his sexuality, other than mentioning it here and there. When Jules’ editor and friend, George, arrives in town to lend her support and encourage her to tell Michael the truth, Jules does the opposite.

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She tells Michael that she’s engaged to George (who is actually gay) in an attempt to make him jealous. So, Hogan changed the script, expanding the role of Julianne's gay confidant, George (Rupert Everett), who acts as her "conscience" throughout the movie. “Whenever she was being particularly. Jules is not the same person in the end and thank goodness for that. The fight over the job offer is a disaster because it ends in reconciliation and forgiveness.

The second, though, is the thing that makes the film work as well as it does: no one in the film acts less than decent. This is Movie-Made Gay , a column by Manuel Betancourt on thirst, reading queerly, and the films that have shaped his identity as a gay man. This is subtle writing, to end a movie not with a clear-cut plot resolution, but with the right note, struck and then held. Diaz added: I was terrified to do that scene, for real.

We hope, sneakily, that Michael and Kim will get married. And Michael is in Chicago. Or a vision board, an aspirational narrative that helps us imagine a better future for ourselves. In high school, I was probably best remembered as a humorless nerd. She was the gay man I aspired to be. We had all gone to the drive-in to see Speed 2: Cruise Control , but I allowed my eyes to wander. My peers got to live out their teenage dreams, my small group of girl friends getting and dumping boyfriends.

All submissions are moderated. Sign me up. I aspired to master her quick wit, her conniving flair. This alienation was all the more glaring in the small community I grew up in. The people I sat next to in chemistry lab were the same people with whom I took first communion back in third grade. How, then, can I still like this film?

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Manuel Betancourt is a film critic and a cultural reporter based in New York City. A favorite movie is the Swiss Army knife in our toolbox of self-awareness. He is a regular contributor to Remezcla where he covers Latin American cinema and U. That includes marriage, romance, and yes, even love. Subscribe Subscribed. Hogan, credited writer Ronald Bass, and everyone involved in shaping this film.

He happens to be her friend, and rather than siding with her, he stays her moral compass. Replies including personal attacks, spam, and other offensive remarks will not be published. More things than I hate.