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Real-life married gay couple cast in 1st Lifetime LGBTQ holiday movie
Lifetime has revealed the cast of its first LGBTQ-centric Christmas movie, "The Christmas Setup."
The network announced this week it has tapped actors Ben Lewis and Blake Lee, a real-life married couple, to luminary in its historymaking holiday film.
Lewis -- known for roles in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," "Degrassi: The Next Generation" and "Arrow" -- and Lee -- known for roles on "Parks and Recreation," "Mixology" and "Wisdom of the Crowd" -- wed in
Co-starring alongside Lewis and Lee are "The Nanny" icon Fran Drescher and actress Ellen Wong ("The Carrie Diaries" and "GLOW").
The movie will follow Hugo (Lewis), a New York lawyer, who returns home to Milwaukee for the holidays with his optimal friend, Madelyn (Wong). While there, his mother, Kate (Drescher), plays matchmaker between him and his secret high educational facility crush, Patrick (Lee), who recently made it big in Silicon Valley. While their relationship
Lifetime&#;s First Gay Christmas Feature Casts Fran Drescher, Ben Lewis
Lifetime has announced the cast for their first holiday film with LGBTQ+ leads, The Christmas Setup.
The TV network announced today in a statement that real-life couple Ben Lewis and Blake Lee clue the film as Hugo and Patrick, Glow actress Ellen Wong will play Hugo's leading friend Madelyn, and The Nanny star Fran Drescher has been cast as Hugo's mom Kate.
The official description reads:
The Christmas Setup follows the story of New York lawyer Hugo (Lewis) who heads to Milwaukee with his finest friend Madelyn (Wong) to spend the holidays with his mom Kate (Drescher), who is also in charge of the local Christmas celebrations. Ever the matchmaker, Kate arranges for Hugo to run into Patrick (Lee), Hugo’s high college friend and secret admiration, who has recently returned after a successful stint in Silicon Valley. As they enjoy the local holiday festivities together, Hugo and Patrick’s attraction to each other is undeniable and it looks as
Last week, Queerty posted an article proclaiming, “The Hallmark Channel is gayer than ever this year!” This is followed by a massive list of exactly THREE movies that they consider same-sex attracted. The first one, Catch Me If You Claus stars Luke Macfarlane in his 16th production for the network. Yes, the Bros co-star is gay in real life, but the traits in the film is not. Kudos to him for continuing to be cast in linear roles, but… do we then count this as a male lover film?
The second movie on their list, Christmas on Cherry Lane is an ensemble piece that includes a gay couple. Jonathan Bennett, Hallmark’s go-to gay performer for gay roles plays contrary Vincent Rodriguez III. It airs December 9th.
The third film, Friends and Family Christmas centers on lesbian friends (Humberly Gonzalez & Ali Liebert) who must pose as a couple for the holidays… and you’ll never predict what happens! This one premieres on December 17th.
So there you have it. As a reminder: The Hallmark Channel is premiering 42 – FORTY-TWO – brand-new Hallmark Christmas movies this season. And we’re suppos
Lifetime's latest batch of Christmas movies will include The Christmas Set-Up, which will be the channel's first festive film centered on an LGBTQ romance. The movie, which will atmosphere in the fall, will air after years of complaints from queer fans of the movies that they tended to attention on relationships that were mostly between white, unbent, cisgendered couples.
The network's chief of programming Amy Winter said of this at a recent press event, "this year, we're even more proud to report one of our Christmas movies will feature an LGBTQ lead story because, at Lifetime, the holidays truly are for everyone."
This could be seen as subtle shade to their holiday movie rivals Hallmark, who they are beating to the punch by featuring a gay couple in The Christmas Set-Up. In fact, Hallmark received criticism from LGBT activists in December after they pulled ads for wedding planning company Zola which featured two women kissing.
Though they eventually reinstated those ads and issued an apology for the "hurt and disappointment [they had] unintentionally caused," the incident served