Live from Pemberley: Fire Island (with Joel Kim Booster)
Hot and Bothered
Not Sorry Productions
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🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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While we've been making Live from Pemberley, we've been blessed with a brand new Pride and Prejudice adaptation! We originally covered Fire Island when it was first released with guest Tobin Low. But this week, in honor of its recent Emmy nominations, we're revisiting the film with its writer and star Joel Kim Booster. From Joel, we learn about how Austen maps onto gay culture and hear about some of the behind-the-scenes decisions of the movie.
Join us in two weeks for our discussion of Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, we wanted to let you know that in partnership with the Fetzer Institute, |
| 0:05.8 | we have been able to offer some scholarships for two of our upcoming pilgrimages. |
| 0:11.3 | Our Duke by Default pilgrimage, we can offer a $1,500 scholarship and our Harry Potter |
| 0:16.6 | and the Prisoner of Azkaban pilgrimage, we can offer $1,000 scholarships. |
| 0:21.8 | To find out more, go to readingandwalkingwith.com. |
| 0:25.9 | We can only do this while supplies last. |
| 0:28.2 | We have five spots available on each trip, I hope to see you there. |
| 0:33.1 | Go to readingandwalkingwith.com. |
| 0:42.2 | In August of 2022, Fire Island, a queer adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, came out on Hulu. |
| 0:51.0 | My friends and I were all eagerly awaiting its release and I had a friend come over to |
| 0:55.6 | watch it with me the day that it dropped. |
| 0:59.1 | It did not disappoint. |
| 1:01.9 | I loved the movie, so I invited a brilliant cultural critic, Tobin Lowe, to come unhoughton |
| 1:08.2 | bothered and discuss it with me as soon as possible. |
| 1:11.8 | Frankly, it felt like Pride and Prejudice was having a big cultural moment right as we |
| 1:17.2 | were making live from Pemberley. |
| 1:20.2 | We had a conversation in which Tobin offered his brilliant insights on the film. |
| 1:25.9 | Here he is talking about why an adaptation on a Georgian, heteronormative piece of 200 |
| 1:32.1 | year old fiction is eerily relevant. |
| 1:35.9 | Even as this film is talking about something Austin probably never gave much thought to. |
| 1:41.5 | The love stories, sexual lives and class issues surrounding gay Asian men in the 2020s. |
| 1:50.6 | All the things you're talking about paint right onto gay culture, like toxic masculinity |
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