Disneyland’s social media accounts were hacked early this morning and, for a time, contained racist and other slurs.
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Manuel Betancourt The title of Rose Troche’s film, “My Fake Boyfriend,” may be clunky, but it captures the outrageous premise of this latest gay romantic comedy. When stuntman Andrew (Keiynan Lonsdale, of “Love, Simon” fame) is stuck in a toxic relationship with a self-absorbed narcissist, his best friend Jake and his girlfriend Kelly (Dylan Sprouse and Sarah Hyland) decide the only way to break the cycle is with a white lie: the creation of a new (fake!) online boyfriend.
Hijinks and an IRL romance ensue in a film that, no matter its contemporary setting, feels like a throwback to an earlier era of Drew/Sandra/Julia-led vehicles. For better and for worse.Then again, “My Fake Boyfriend” has enough plotlines at play to make it feel like any number of movies.
There is Andrew’s increasingly unmanageable lie of a boyfriend, who overnight becomes an internet sensation (having a rocking bod and a global influencer/activist/philanthropist online footprint helps with that). That alone would be enough to power an entire film, especially the way Andrew is forced to see how the guy he’d been hooked on (Marcus Rosner’s Nico, the preening star of the show Andrew works at) didn’t really see or value him the way he should have.
But the screenplay, written by Luke Albright, Greg Boaldin and Joe Wanjai Ross, surrounds that titular plot line with, at times, competing storylines that pull the film into decidedly different tonal and generic territories, often stopping them to stage a physical pratfall designed to keep the laughs coming. As Andrew tries to wish away his newfound boyfriend, “Cristiano” (named after the soccer player, naturally), he stumbles into a meet-cute with a dashing chef (Samer Salem’s Rafi).
Disneyland’s social media accounts were hacked early this morning and, for a time, contained racist and other slurs.
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Keiynan Lonsdale is an Australian actor, dancer, and singer-songwriter. Best known for his roles in Love, Simon and The Flash, his newest film, My Fake Boyfriend, is a romantic comedy about Andrew (Lonsdale), who with the help of his friends, creates a made-up online boyfriend as a way to get space from his toxic ex.When asked if he has ever created a fake boyfriend in real life, Lonsdale laughs as he says, “Probably in my dreams, but no, I haven’t gone and used my skills to craft a fake boyfriend.” He then punctuates the sentence with a mischievous, “yet.”Prior to the role of Andrew in My Fake Boyfriend, Lonsdale found his stride playing Bram in the groundbreaking, coming-of-age LGBTQ romantic comedy, Love, Simon.This new queer role, however, is different from his role in Love, Simon.“[My Fake Boyfriend] isn’t a coming out movie. It is still, in ways, about finding yourself but it’s more about being honest with yourself to a larger degree.
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