And I think like, at the time, the impostor syndrome didn’t feel quite as present because it all felt so far away. What are you thinking? I’m going to fire you when I get back.” And then, you know, I was on a long plane ride to Japan and I busted out my laptop and just wrote what was a very, very early version of, like, a half-hour pilot of Fire Island. And it was actually my agent, my writing agent, David Meese, who said, “You should think about turning this essay into a project.” And I was like, “That’s the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard. So, I had a pilot at Comedy Central that got passed on and I was in a really low place. I know the idea for the film came to you pretty organically after reading Pride and Prejudice on a Fire Island trip and publishing an essay about it, but how much convincing did you need to actually start working on the script? So it feels like I’m watching my firstborn leave for college. This is the first time I’m experiencing it. But of course, my inclination is to try and make it as perfect as possible. But with every review, and the closer we get to the premiere, it starts to feel less like it’s mine, you know? It’s everyone else’s now. And I mean, it’s gratifying, obviously, to read so many positive reviews of the movie.
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It’s really intense and overwhelming to see. How does it feel seeing all the positive feedback Fire Island has gotten? The Daily Beast got to speak with Booster about his screenwriting process for Fire Island, dealing with impostor syndrome, and representing queer sexuality on-screen. In the age of streaming, when a lot of art can fall through the cracks, Booster will be pretty hard to miss.
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He also has a new hour-long stand-up special premiering on Netflix called Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual on June 21, in addition to his recurring live shows.
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The comedian, who previously starred on the short-lived NBC sitcom Sunnyside and has written for Billy on the Street and The Other Two, will co-star in the Apple TV+ series Loot starring Maya Rudolph, premiering June 24. It’s a delight then that, in addition to Fire Island’s release, 2022 will practically be the year of Joel Kim Booster. I’d also be remiss not to mention that it’s a visually stunning film. Of course, there’s plenty of quotable one-liners and a hilarious Marisa Tomei line reading that make Fire Island a capital-C comedy. The best friends’ parallel experiences on the island paint a rare, fascinating portrait of desirability and respectability politics within the Asian queer community and the queer community as a whole. Darcy, an uptight lawyer named Will (Conrad Ricamora). At the same time, Noah is dealing with his own unexpected romantic encounter when he meets his Mr. When he and his group of friends go on their annual trip to Fire Island, he’s determined to get his timid best friend Howie (Yang), the film’s Jane, laid-a mission that becomes equally as telling about Noah’s vulnerabilities and insecurities as Howie’s.
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And indeed, the rumors are true.Ī modern Pride and Prejudice adaptation with two gay, Asian-American leads, set on the famous LGBTQ vacation spot and starring a cluster of beloved comedians, such as Booster, Saturday Night Live’s Bowen Yang and I Love That For You’s Matt Rogers, seemed like an easy sell when it was first announced-at least for their religious followers on the internet and Las Culturistas stans like myself.īooster stars as the story’s protagonist Noah, an analogue of Elizabeth Bennet from the Jane Austen novel. By now, you’ve probably heard that Hulu’s Fire Island, written by Joel Kim Booster and directed by Andrew Ahn, is one of the best movies of 2022 so far.