Over His Gay-But-Not-Gay Body

 
So that's how you pretend to be gay? My "have sex with men" approach is all wrong?

For the three or four of you planning on checking out the new Eva Longoria/Paul Rudd comedy Hello Again 2 Over Her Dead Body this weekend, here's a spoiler.

Ready for a bit of gay intrigue? It seems that the movie has a gay BFF character named Dan, played by Jason Biggs (of American Pie fame), who apparently turns out not to be gay after all. A few of the (abominable) reviews for the film mention that Biggs' character is gay and that he is involved in a kooky last-act twist, but it wasn't clear what that twist was until our own sleuth Dennis Ayers found this interview with Biggs, where he makes it clear that his gay character ends up not being gay at all.

We're not sure why he's pretending to be gay (probably trying to get close to a chick, a la Rock Hudson ... although that situation gets so meta it hurts my walnut-sized brain), but at least Biggs indicates that he approached the character somewhat seriously and with a certain amount of respect for the gay element:

"So I had to figure out sort of what his idea of gay was, or at least what kind of gay impersonation he wanted to do. I didn't want to go to the sort of stereotypical cliché place. I just thought that would be over the top and not credible, so in the end we decided the more subdued the better. But I was nervous and insecure about it."   

I'm having flashbacks to Snakes on a Plane's gay-then-not-gay flight attendant, but in that case he wasn't actually pretending to be gay, everyone just assumed he was. This is even more bizarre. And disappointing, given the dearth of gay characters in movies these days ... but who am I kidding, it's not like I expected anything good to come out of this movie anyway.

And given that it was nearly impossible to find a publicity still or even screengrab of Biggs' character in any of the promo materials, even this not-gay-gay character is likely relegated to near-nonexistent status (except for the scene where he apparently sets himself on fire, no doubt paving the way for at least a "flaming" joke or two. Sing for your supper, Mary!).

Dennis also found out that the movie was originally titled Ghost Bitch. Now THAT I'd pay to see!