Nick Jonas & Liam Hemsworth Were Almost Cast in Bros, Here’s How

With the gay rom-com Bros becoming available on demand for the first time this week, the discourse has started up all over again and a new revelation from creator Billy Eichner reveals the film almost looked a little bit different.

While the principal cast was all filled with all LGBTQ+ actors, a handful of straight celebrities made minor cameos including Debra Messing, Kristen Chenoweth, and Ben Stiller. In a behind-the-scenes glimpse alongside costar Luke MacFarlane, Eichner reveals that two beloved A-listers almost made appearances too.

“Liam Hemsworth wanted to do a cameo in the movie — and he was supposed to,” Eichner told Yahoo. “We had a whole Zoom meeting with him, and he was lovely and charming and funny, but then COVID hit again and he couldn’t travel from Australia just to do one scene in Bros unfortunately, but that would have been fun!”

MacFarlane adds, “Australia, you kept Liam from being in Bros!”

Eichner had him in mind for a hilarious premise.

“In the movie, Luke and I go see a movie called The Treasure Inside, which is a fictional movie about two closeted frontiersmen during the California gold rush of 1812,” Eichner said. “Sort of indicative of the many movies about tragic, closeted men that we get and in Hollywood real straight actors play them, Brokeback [Mountain] and a million other ones. We were going to shoot scenes from that movie, and Liam was going to be one of the tragic closeted frontiersmen.”

The other cowboy Eichner considered? Nick Jonas!

Unfortunately, that iconic fictional couple was never meant to be, but a boy can dream, and dream we will! Or maybe Hollywood should get to work on a real The Treasure Inside...

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