Bros director reveals why orgy scene almost didn't make the cut
As a gay romantic comedy with a nearly-entirely LGBTQ+ cast, the film walks the line between making a film about how queer relationships differ from straight ones, and the typical rom-com formula.
"I said to Billy from the beginning, you know, there were only three rules for writing the movie: it needed to be really funny, it needed to be really honest, and it needed to have a happy ending," he said."I was like, 'That’s it.' I mean, it’s easier said than done, but those were the rules – particularly being honest. He said the same thing.
"It was interesting cutting the film. You’re always pulling stuff in and out of the movie, and we tried, as an experiment… I’m always trying to make the movie shorter. Any movie I’m working on, I’m trying to make it shorter," Stoller added."We pulled out the fourgy at the end, at Christmas, and the conversation where Billy says to Luke [Macfarlane's character], 'I felt uncomfortable during that, the whole idea of an open relationship.