- (FBE) We're going to be taking you to the Fox lot
for a private screening of the whole film.
- Oh my god! Right now? - (FBE) Right now.
- Are you serious?! (giggles)
- Oh, okay. Here we go. Here we go. - Okay.
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- (girl) Do you ever feel weird? - (boy) Weird?
- That's the girl from 13 Reasons Why,
but I don't know what this is.
- It's a movie trailer? - It's the Simon movie.
I know this movie. - Oh, I saw previews for this.
- I wanna watch this so bad.
- This movie is going to be so good.
- (girl) There's this invisible line I have to cross
to really be a part of everything and I just-- I can't ever cross it.
- (boy) Me too.
My name's Simon. - I think this is so great.
- (Simon) Except I have one huge-ass secret.
- I don't know this. - (Simon) Hey!
I like your boots. - What?
- (Simon) I said I like your-- your boots.
- Those boots are ugly. Why would you say that? (chuckles)
- (Simon) Nobody knows I'm gay. - Ohhh.
- Been there. - I relate to this so much.
- (Simon) One minute, I'm on top of the world...
- The first coming out, I think.
I haven't seen a movie like this before.
- I feel like this might make me cry a little bit.
- (Simon) Maybe a part of me wants to hold on
to who I've always been... - Aww.
- (Simon) ...just a little longer.
- I've already got chills.
- (Simon) Announcing who you are
to the world is pretty terrifying. - Yeah.
- (Simon) What if the world doesn't like you?
- [Bleep] them.
- Oh god. - (Simon) It doesn't seem fair
that only gay people have to come out.
- I love this scene.
- (girl #2) I have something I need to tell you.
- (boy #2) I like girls. - (dad) You trying to kill me?
- (girl #3) I like men.
- (girl #2) I'm straight.
- (girl #3) I'm heterosexual. - (mother cries) Oh god.
Oh god. Help me, Jesus. - (chuckles)
It's the best part of the trailer.
- That speaks a lot of truth, really.
Why is being straight what people already assume about others?
- (FBE) So that was the trailer for the new film, "Love, Simon."
- I'm seeing it for the first time. Never seen that before.
I've never heard of that movie. I know nothing about it.
- I would definitely see it.
I would want to also understand students that have come and talked
to me about this exact same thing.
- I'll go and watch that, and I'll be in tears the whole time.
It's really tough for people to go through this.
So to watch this, it's like, the whole time,
I'm gonna be like, "Oh my gosh, I went through the same thing."
- (FBE) Well, today, we're doing something
that we've never done on the show before.
- Okay. - (FBE) This episode is actually
being sponsored by the movie. So we're going to be taking you
to the Fox lot for a private screening of the whole film.
- Oh my god. Right now? - (FBE) Right now.
- Are you serious?! (giggles) - Are you kidding me?!
Oh my god, this is so exciting! - Oh my god!
(choked up) Coming out and having allies
and being represented in the media is so important, because I struggled
with my identity for a really long time.
- ♪ I will find any way to your wild heart ♪
- (FBE) So are you guys ready for the first ever
full movie react? - Yeah!
- Heck yeah, that's awesome!
- ♪ ...boarded up the windows and the doors to my house ♪
♪ No one would ever read the letters or the lies
that I told from the years I was changed ♪
♪ By crooked hearts ♪
♪ (percussion intro) ♪ - Oh, okay. Here we go.
Here we go.
- (Simon) I'm just like you.
For the most part, my life is totally normal.
And then there's my friends. Two of them I've known
since pretty much the beginning of time,
or at least kindergarten.
- (students cheering)
- (Simon) One of them, I just met a few months ago,
but it feels like I've known her forever.
I'm just like you. I have a totally perfectly normal life.
Except I have one huge-ass secret.
Hey. - (Leah) Have you seen the new post?
- (Simon) No. What? Oh my god.
You know, I'm never getting back in that pool again.
- (Leah) No! About the closeted gay kid at school.
- (Simon) What? - (Leah) Yeah, it's on creeksecrets.
- (Simon) "Sometimes I feel like I'm stuck on a Ferris wheel.
One minute, I'm on top of the world, and the next I'm at rock bottom
over and over all day long, because a lot of my life is great.
But nobody knows I'm gay. - Blue"
Dear Blue, I'm just like you.
For the most part, my life is totally normal.
...is the annoying handsome quarterback who married
the hot valedictorian.
I have a sister I actually like... I'm just like you.
I have a totally perfectly normal life,
except I have one huge-ass secret.
(computer blipping)
Jacques.
(exhales shakily)
- (teacher) Ay, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yooo.
- (Simon) Mr. Worth. - (Mr. Worth) What's up, my brother?
- (Simon) Hey, just here for my phone.
- (Mr. Worth) Oh, of course you are.
Of course you are. How'd you enjoy being unplugged?
- (Simon) Oh, it was great. - (Mr. Worth) Great, right?
- (Simon) Yeah. - (Mr. Worth) This isn't life, man.
This is plugged.
This is unplugged. -(Simon) Mm-hmm.
- (Mr. Worth) All right, Simon, I know that I'm hard on you.
I really do.
It's only 'cause I really see myself in you.
- I... I don't know if I see that. - (reactors laugh)
- (girl) Oh my god.
I know. I remember [inaudible].
- (Simon's mom) Hey, guys?
Hey. Hey! Come talk to us. How was the party?
- (girl) It was really fun.
- (Simon's mom) Was it? - (girl) Yeah.
- (Simon) Aces. - Huh. Yeah.
- (reactors laugh) - (girl) Uh, well,
thanks for letting me stay over. - Oh!
- (Simon's dad) Yeah, yeah, yeah. - (mom #2) Yeah.
- Oh my gosh, that is so disgusting.
- (mom whispers) You don't have to thank us.
- (girl) Oh. Yeah, thanks.
- (Simon's dad) He's drunk. - (Simon's mom) Definitely.
- (Simon's dad) So how do we feel about that?
- (Simon's mom) Well, he didn't drive drunk
and he's home before curfew, so... - (Simon's dad) Good.
That's what I thought we thought. - (Simon's mom) Yeah, that's what we...
- I never got off that... They're chill.
♪ (somber music) ♪
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
♪ (uplifting music) ♪
- (FBE) So what'd you guys think? - Really good.
- Very good. - So much fun. So cute.
- I came out in 1990 when I was 20 years old,
and there were no laws that protected gay people.
And I can't believe that in only 27 years
that a major movie production company
like Fox has made a film so impactful.
- (FBE) So first thing's first, how did this movie make you feel?
- I really liked it. Coming of age that actually,
for once, felt like a regular movie and not a "gay movie."
It touched everyone's heart. I don't think it matters
whatever sexuality you have, that anyone can enjoy this movie.
- It was so heartwarming and sad at the same time.
But then at the end, you were so happy again.
- I just came out pretty recently, so everything that was happening,
I was like, "That has been my life for the past few years."
- When I first came out, I was beaten for it.
I made it through, and here I am.
And I'm the happiest I've ever been.
And... You know, not everybody
has the same story, but you can be happy.
- It gives me... It's...
(choked up) It makes everything I went through worth it.
- (FBE) Well, the film deals with topics that are pressing today
and really normalizes the whole coming out process
in a way that not many films have done before.
- I think they did outstanding. I love how everybody was involved
in moving it towards a positive yes. That is something--
If we're gonna normalize something, okay, that should be normalized.
- I wish this were out back when I was going through the struggles,
'cause it made it so simple.
- Just because the struggle isn't sexuality,
I think everybody's gonna be able to relate to this,
and every parent-- as a parent, every parent's gonna relate to this.
I predict there's gonna be a lot of young kids taking their parents,
their mother, to this movie... - Yeah, this is...
- ...that maybe haven't come out to them yet.
- (FBE) And finally, what was this experience like for you,
being able to see the movie early on a lot like this?
- Dude, I'm still hyped. Just the whole experience,
getting to be just nine people in this theater watching a movie
for the first time, I feel like I know a secret.
- You go through something like this, through this experience,
and you do feel closer to everyone,
because you've experienced it together.
- To watch a show that's this powerful
before it's been released, it just really is an honor.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Adults React.
- If you wanna see more shows, subscribe and hit the bell.
- Let us know in the comments if you're excited for "Love, Simon."
- Hey, guys. Kyle here, producer at FBE.
Thank you so much for watching this episode of Adults React,
and thank you to our sponsor, 20th Century Fox's new film,
"Love, Simon," in theaters everywhere
on March 16. Bye, guys.