“Then it will also hopefully give me a platform and an opportunity to have conversations where I double down on that perspective.” “I was like, ‘This is an opportunity to get on camera and do that,'” he admits. In an interview with GAY TIMES, the actor says he was keen to star in the film because it was an “opportunity” for him to be as “loud and proud about being gay” as he is on social media.

Scully stars as a “friendly” paediatrician called Charlie, who he describes as a stark contrast from his breakout role as Forty Quinn, an “angry, uneven drug addict”, on the second season of Netflix’s thriller series You. Casting queer actors in queer roles in Fire Island added “so much” authenticity to the film, according to James Scully.ĭirected by Andrew Ahn and written by Joel Kim Booster, the rom-com centres around two best friends (Booster and Bowen Yang) as they embark on a weeklong vacation to the titular gay hotspot, “with the help of cheap rosé and their cadre of eclectic friends”.