Billy Eichner
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He was coming off of American Beauty and The Usual Suspects.
And also...
I grew up in New York City.
And what so much of the book is about is about how much theater my parents took me to see.
We were middle-class people.
We were not rich.
But what we had, we spent on entertainment.
And especially, we loved the theater.
Broadway, off-off-Broadway, from the time I was a young kid, they treated me like an adult, right?
And I was so passionate about it.
And the more passionate I got about it, they got about it.
And so I was exposed to very sophisticated things for a kid.
And that's what made me want to be an actor.
It was seeing those plays.
There was a whole wave of gay male playwrights in the late 80s and 90s in New York who were
Sadly, using their work to respond to AIDS for the most part.
But a side effect of that is that I went as a kid and saw lots of gay male characters on stage in a way that you would not have on TV or in mainstream films at the time.
And I could rattle off all those playwrights that inspired me, you know.
And so that's who I am underneath the persona.
And like I said, I think you just get to a point.