- All right, Billy Eichner and his co-star Luke Macfarlane
in the movie "Bros," which is such an important movie to us.
I think it's the first time we've ever actually been able
to send our entire audience to a screening before the show.
So you could know the context.
(audience applauds)
We're so invested in this film
because I think it's gonna be a huge success.
This is a genre so near and dear to my heart.
Produced by Judd Apatow, who is the king
of the male rom-com as far as I'm concerned.
But back to what we left on the commercial break for Luke.
Give us the details that the first thing
you ever said to Billy was, "you look angry."
- Yes, in fact, those are the first words
that Aaron says to Bobby when we meet,
and it was my audition scene.
So the first thing I got to say to Billy Eichner was,
"You look angry."
- Yeah, and I said, I hear you're boring
because those are the lines.
Luke and I did not know each other
before he came into audition.
- It was very nerve wracking.
Billy Eichner is, you know, brilliant,
and funny, and hilarious, and I came into a room
and Judd Apatow was sitting there, and Nick Stoller,
and all these executives and stuff like that.
So I kind of had a little bit of that Aaron energy
where I was sort of protecting
with my sort of like, kind of saying
a not super nice thing to somebody,
but it sort of, it was how I was feeling too.
I was very nervous, and I think when we are nervous,
we sometimes don't have the most
generous things to say to people.
- Yeah, well that's how Bobby and Aaron, when they meet
they both have their defenses up.
You know, they're both trying in different ways.
- Walls. - Walls, right?
And they express themselves very differently.
My character is very outspoken.
I don't wanna give it away, but this becomes an issue
with Aaron and Bobby in the movie
especially when Aaron's parents visit, right?
Because I'm a big personality,
and Aaron is very drawn to that,
but also a little scared of that.
- One of my favorite moments in the film, if I may,
which is you're in the museum.
This is the museum has so much merit
because it's about telling people's stories.
And for me, that is a welcome mat, that is non divisive.
That's just our history.
You can't change it.
We need to talk about it, and we need to listen
and hear about these stories.
And yet your character is looking at himself in the museum
and your placard card just starts to erase.
I was so haunted, so beautifully haunted by that moment.
What were you trying to tell in that moment
as the writer and the filmmaker?
Why is the name getting erased?
What do we do in order to sort of erase our potency
and our mark in the world?
- Yeah, well, my character in the movie
is working on what we call
the first national LGBTQ+ History Museum,
which is about to open, right?
And we don't talk a lot about LGBTQ history, right?
And LGBTQ people often don't know our own history
because it's been erased.
It's not talked about in schools.
It's not part of the common cultural conversation
so we don't grow up knowing
about all the LGBTQ historical figures
and what our contributions were,
which I think has more of an impact on us than we realize.
- And that's under threat again.
- Right. Exactly.
It's still something we're very much dealing with.
And so when his character, and Luke as an actor
brings so much to this scene also, but when Aaron,
I bring him to see the museum for the first time
and he walks around and finally sees
all the contributions of LGBTQ people throughout history
in this hallway of legends, we call it,
that I'm walking him through.
And then he sees an empty display
and sees his own reflection and in his head sees the card,
which for all the other historical figures
describes their contribution to history.
And he realizes that, I think his card
and his mind ends up saying,
Aaron Shepherd worked out a lot,
hated his job, did CrossFit, right?
As if that was his contribution to life.
And he's realizing in that moment
that he hasn't had the type of full life,
he hasn't contributed as much as he could
or he actually wants to deep down.
And I think that really shakes him up,
although ultimately inspires him I think.
- It also is such an advocacy
for go out there and live a life.
Create stories, write your chapters, make it rich.
We get one shot here on this planet that we know of.
- But it's hard and it's scary.
You know, it's hard and it's scary
and I think on every level we're continuing to be challenged
to sort of live bigger, live fuller, live more honestly.
It's just frightening.
- And even if you do,
you can feel self-conscious about it
because that's not for everyone.
And I'm not sure there is one way anybody is supposed to be
other than who they gosh darn are and have that be okay.
- [Billy] Yeah, absolutely.
- As long as you're not hurting people.
As long as you are gentle and kind,
I am convinced we are here
to take care of each other on this planet.
And for those who don't subscribe to that,
we can keep our distance from.
But I just think you guys have really done
such an extraordinary job in this film
of bringing everybody in
in what I believe will be a timeless classic.
- Wow, thank you very much.
- It's so true.
(audience applauds)
Now in the spirit of "Bros," I was wondering
would you guys play a game with me?
- Yeah. - Of course.
- Okay, good! Okay!
(audience applauds)
- It's a twist on never have I ever,
but we're calling it bro-say or rose.
- [Bobby] Oh, look at that.
(audience cheers)
- Here's how it works.
I'm gonna read a scenario
and if you've done it, you can drink.
- Oh, okay.
- And maybe tell me a quick story behind the story.
- Okay.
- All right, sent a dirty text to the wrong person.
- I actually have done that, yes.
I was gonna send a progress picture to my trainer
because he's very concerned that I look a certain way.
So I think I was standing in my boxers in my bathroom
and I sent it to my best friend accidentally.
- Oh wow. - I sent it to Keith.
- Oh, you did?
That's not that dirty.
- Well, it's not that dirty, but it's dirty.
- [Drew] And it's Keith, it's safe.
- [Drew] Let's drink anyway.
- Yeah. Okay, good.
- Delicious.
- Have you ever embellished, you know, to impress a date?
- Oh yeah. - For sure. Of course.
- Have you ever given or received a lap dance?
- Yes. - Yes, I did.
This is funny, being on this talk show.
When I was a kid, I saw "Donahue,"
I saw the Chippendale dancers on "Donahue."
- He talks about that a lot. - And it changed my life.
Totally changed my life.
I was like, I like something about that.
(Drew laughs)
Couldn't quite identify
but I did remember telling my parents,
I wanted to be a stripper.
- [Billy] Wow.
- And then "Magic Mike" happened and they didn't call me.
- Yeah, but in "Bros" you strip down a lot.
- I do strip down a lot.
- Well, that's actually our next question for the game.
Have you ever been nude in public?
- We're pretty naked in the movie.
That's public. - Yeah, I've been there.
(audience applauds)
Has anyone ever built anything from scratch?
- Yes, I am a woodworker.
It is my hobby and my passion. - [Billy] That's not a joke.
He's actually a woodworker. - I am actually a woodworker.
- If you're not checking every box, Luke,
like seriously, I've watched pictures of your woodwork.
First of all, it's beautiful craftsmanship.
- [Luke] Thank you.
- You're literally like Owen Wilson
in like "Meet the Fockers."
Like, you're a serious, like you've come up
where you're like, I just like whittled this hoopah
out of like a block of wood.
Who are you?
- It's a great hobby to have.
Honestly, I think especially in, you know,
movie making and acting.
What we do is so ephemeral, and then to be able to actually
go into my garage, I open up my big door
and it smells like saw dust,
and I get to make something that lasts forever
and that's very different than what we do as an actor.
- I feel the same way
about takeout food and post (indistinct).
I get off work and I'm like, what did I order?
What am I watching?
- Me too, I've literally never
turned on the stove in my kitchen.
Not once.
He's building doors.
- I know.
I'm like, how do you do it?
Well, I would like to propose a toast
to a beautiful film that comes out in theaters today,
which will be a timeless classic and open up the doors
for many people in the future.
You are building something very powerful
and everlasting here, and you guys built it.
You're the makers of it.
So actually, you do build.
- Yes. Thank you. - Well done.
- Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane.
"Bros" is in theaters now!
- [Billy] We love you, Drew Barrymore!
(upbeat bright music)