Booster has vivid childhood memories of her 1994-95 sitcom All-American Girl. It is not just that they are fans of her work but they appreciate what she represents in terms of queer representation, and also Asian American representation. That Cho agreed to be in Fire Island is something that elates both men. I loved that it celebrates joyful, queer, Asian American friendship.” I saw in the script, you know, everything I was missing in my life. “It had been a year since I had gone out drinking and dancing with friends. “I got the script for the feature about a year into the pandemic,” he adds. “Working with Joel, Bowen, and Margaret Cho, if this movie was unfunny, I should quit the business,” he says. He admits he was a little nervous about, but he loved the story and knew he could trust his cast. So, I wanted to do it myself.”Īhn, who won a Film Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for his 2016 first feature, Spa Night, and followed that up with another drama, Driveways, had never made a comedy before Fire Island. I don’t know that the industry was ever going to afford me the opportunity to do that. For me, this was an opportunity to finally get to play with my best friend and to act with my best friend. Our pictures have been used interchangeably by media outlets, and that’s always really frustrated us because we’ve seen each other as individuals. A lot of people in the industry see us as the same. “We check a lot of the same demographic boxes. “It was important on a personal level but on a professional level, since we met, I think people have wanted to see us as oppositional forces, like we’ve gone in for the same parts. “I wanted to honor our friendship,” Booster says. The other was his close friendship with SNL star Bowen Yang. “It was important to me to show-I think in a lot of gay media, you mostly see rich, white gay men-that there a whole breadth of experience within our community.”Ī beach read of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice the first year he stayed on Fire Island in 2016 and Booster’s love for Clueless, the Alicia Silverstone-Paul Rudd contemporary update of Austen’s Emma, served as partial inspirations for Booster’s screenplay. You scam your way onto it however you can,” Booster says during a recent visit to San Francisco with director Andrew Ahn. “It’s very difficult to get there but people find a way and that’s how special that island is. But he still loves the place, enough to write Fire Island, a rom-com set there. Even now, he admits he is sometimes priced out and that for many who want to stay at the LGBTQ summer playground, it is simply economically unfeasible. Writer, actor, and comedian Joel Kim Booster remembers 16 people stuffing themselves into a three-bedroom house in order to be able to afford a vacation on New York’s Fire Island.
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