![]() A leader for queer Asian visibility in comedy, Cho plays a mother figure of sorts to Noah and his lost boys onscreen. Banished from the lesbian enclave of Cherry Grove for reasons that may include arson and a bad breakup (although not necessarily related), Erin owns the home where Noah, Howie, and their friends have gathered each summer for years. Indeed, Cho’s lesbian character Erin is the doyenne of queers in the film that stars Booster as Noah, a handsome young gay man who dons his Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth Bennet persona and sidelines his Fire Island hook-up plans until he helps his friend Howie (Bowen Yang) get laid. “Do I get to be their guest?” she self-queried, perhaps picturing a dramatic entrance in a wide-brimmed hat. ![]() When veteran comic Margaret Cho was approached for the rom-com Fire Island - from writer Joel Kim Booster and director Andrew Ahn, with a cast of queer Asian men - she was proud to lean into what she calls her “Joan Collins phase.”
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