‘Happiest Season’ Director Made LGBT Holiday Rom-Com Because ‘I’ve Never Seen My Experience Represented’

Matt James‘ season of The Bachelor will kick off at the start of the 2021, and the cast is in for quite a different experience.Season 25 will be a season of firsts: James is the first Black Bachelor, and the season will be the first to film at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Pennsylvania. Additionally, it’s the first time that the lead of the season has not appeared on the franchise in the past — and that may impact a lot.“It was really funny.

Aubrey Plaza believes her “Happiest Season” co-star Kristen Stewart contracted the coronavirus while they were filming the movie earlier this year.  During a recent virtual appearance on “The Late Show,” Plaza was asked by host Stephen Colbert about filming the movie in late February just before the pandemic changed everyone’s way of life in March.  The actress noted that the virus was a topic of conversation on set, but it was not treated with the seriousness it deserved at first.  “Right

Remember all the way back at the beginning of 2020, when we barely knew what coronavirus was? Apparently, Kristen Stewart was finding out pretty intimately.

said on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” last week.Plaza added that a lot of people on the set got sick around that time and no one thought anything of it.“It was the last week of February so people were starting, it was like that zone where people were starting to talk about coronavirus, but people were laughing about it,” she said. “No one understood how serious it was.

, but the set of the hit holiday romance wasn't exactly a happy place the whole time. Actress Aubrey Plaza revealed onthat the Hulu film's star, Kristen Stewart, as well as many others on the set got sick with what she believes to be COVID-19. Sharing that they filmed the moving in late February, Plaza noted, «Yes, right before COVID, in fact, COVID was on our set.

Aubrey Plaza has revealed Kristen Stewart contracted coronavirus while filming “Happiest Season”.

Aubrey Plaza, who has been receiving a lot of fan love for her performance in Happiest Season, recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to talk about the Christmas film.

This post contains spoilers about Hulu's new rom-com Happiest Season.When Happiest Season, the we've been waiting to see forever, dropped on Hulu this November, the Internet was instantly divided over its “happy” ending. According to scores of fans on Twitter, many viewers Abby () find love with Riley, who was played by the wonderfully charming .

Spoiler warning: This interview reveals plot points of “Happiest Season.“ READ MORE: ‘Happiest Season’: Kristen Stewart & Mackenzie Davis Shine Bright In A Coming Out Xmas Romcom [Review] Hulu’s “Happiest Season” is a bonafide hit – breaking premiere records, scoring the most-watched status during its opening weekend, attracting more new subscribers than any previous movie title on the platform, and trended on Twitter.

Kate Aurthur editor“Happiest Season,” from Sony’s Tri-Star Pictures, was always poised to make history, as the first holiday romantic comedy about a same-sex couple from a major Hollywood studio. Then the pandemic hit, leaving Sony with little choice other than to sell “Happiest Season” to Hulu. That seems to have turned out wonderfully: Variety has learned exclusively from Hulu that “Happiest Season” broke premiere records for the streamer.

is essentially a heist movie with the number of supporting cast members who steal scenes: Mary Holland walking off with a scene here, Dan Levy chewing scenery there, there's even a cameo from Michelle Buteau. But Aubrey Plaza is the undisputed hero of the film.«There is just something else going on with this movie that felt very important, to have a gay Christmas rom-com.

Kristen Stewart is really excited to be a part of the groundbreaking film “Happiest Season”, the first major studio-backed Christmas rom-com featuring LGBTQ+ characters in the lead.

[This story contains spoilers for Happiest Season on Hulu.] "Right away I said, 'I would like to play her. I would like that to be me,'" remembers Mary Holland of pitching herself to play Jane, the fantasy novel-loving, ready-to-please and overall black sheep of the buttoned-up Caldwell clan, as seen in new Hulu holiday movieHappiest Season.

, is not exactly revolutionary in its representation of queer people — it centers on well-to-do, white lesbians — nor does it set out to reinvent the holiday-centric romantic comedy. (There are hiccups and hijinks, but the couple is kissing again come Christmas.) It is radical, however, in centering those queer people in a still overwhelmingly -laced genre.Which is exactly what director and writer Clea DuVall (who penned the script with actress Mary Holland) set out to do.

(Spoiler alert: Do not read on if you haven’t watched “Happiest Season.”)Despite starring in one of the most popular heterosexual relationships on screen (“Twilight”), openly bisexual actor Kristen Stewart said she felt the need to be a part of the first LGBTQ Christmas rom-com movie released by a major studio, called “Happiest Season.”“Not only is it very, very funny, [but] it feels really lived-in and reflective of something really familiar to me and a lot of people that has not been evident

Who we are with our parents and who we are in a romantic relationship can seem like different people.For Harper (Mackenzie Davis), a newspaper reporter living a nice adult life in Pittsburgh with her art student girlfriend Abby (Kristen Stewart), the gap is more dramatic than most: She has yet to come out to her parents. She has also invited Abby, who intends to propose, home with her for Christmas only to drop the truth on her in the car ride there.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“Happiest Season” is a home-for-the-holidays movie that serves up what you expect, along with something you don’t. The second feature directed by the actress-turned-filmmaker Clea DuVall (“The Intervention”), who shows a singular flair for shaping performances as well as a lush new visual confidence, the film is cheeky and blithe and situational, suffused with enough upscale Christmas froth to get the audience high on spiced-cocktail fumes.