Lisa Myers talks designing sets, LGBTQ museum in ‘Bros’
07.03.2023 - 06:35
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On Billy Eichner’s rom-com “Bros,” production designer Lisa Myers helped create Eichner’s character’s apartment, utilizing art as a storytelling tool to represent Bobby and his importance within the queer community. Myers also designed the LGBTQ art museum that Bobby builds throughout the film. Myers says her role as production designer is to create a film’s overall aesthetic and help tell the film’s story through visuals. Photo: Provided by Universal
On Billy Eichner’s rom-com “Bros,” production designer Lisa Myers helped create Eichner’s character’s apartment, utilizing art as a storytelling tool to represent Bobby and his importance within the queer community.
Myers also designed the LGBTQ art museum that Bobby builds throughout the film.
Myers says her role as production designer is to create a film’s overall aesthetic and help tell the film’s story through visuals.
“I always feel that our sets are there to support the action that’s going on in the story,” Myers says. “I want them to be beautiful. I want them to be characters of their own.
“But I’m really focused on the story itself, and making sure that we’re giving the support to the director of photography, to the character, to the actors, and to the director to clue into what’s happening.
“We’re the visual storyteller,” Myers says. “We have to communicate quickly through our visuals.”
“Bros” is a romantic comedy about the endeavors of two polar opposite commitment-phobe men (Eichner and Luke McFarland) who decide to try having a relationship.
“Bros” is a historic film because it’s the first LGBTQ+ rom-com backed by a major studio with a mostly queer principal cast.
Designing Bobby’s apartment
Lisa Myers worked closely with Eichner on the design for his