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Neither Bobby (Billy Eichner) nor Aaron (Luke Macfarlane) are the courting kind, which solely provides to the stress of their Central Park encounter on this scene from “Bros.”
Bobby has introduced a big blanket to sit down on, and Aaron as an alternative chooses a spot on the grass. Aaron additionally appears distracted by the shirtless dudes enjoying soccer, whereas Bobby turns into satisfied that he’s not Aaron’s kind. Narrating the scene, the director Nicholas Stoller, who additionally co-wrote the screenplay with Eichner, mentioned it was primarily based on Eichner’s actual expertise when he introduced a blanket to the park and his date refused to sit down on it.
However the scene, in each a passive-aggressive, after which simply plain aggressive means, exhibits how the 2 characters are starting to fall for one another.
“It was essential to me to dramatize this shift from making an attempt to be not susceptible in any method to slowly letting their guard down,” Stoller mentioned. “And since it’s a comedy, we would have liked to do it comedically, but it surely additionally wanted to play romantically.”
As a result of Bobby feels somewhat threatened by Aaron’s attraction to athletic, sports-focused “dumb guys,” as he places it, he interrogates Aaron about that attraction, which ends up in some shoving that mirrors that of the blokes enjoying soccer. That transitions to an intimate second, which acts as each a tension-breaking joke and a story bridge to a potential new path for these characters.
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