Jennifer Ehle. Keira Knightley. And now, Joel Kim Booster: Into the pantheon of "Pride and Prejudice" adaptations, queer rom-com "Fire Island" has arrived to give Jane Austenites a summer to remember — and the next great Elizabeth Bennet.
Set on the titular resort off of Long Island, "Fire Island" (streaming now on Hulu) stars Booster as Noah, a happily single, perpetually broke New Yorker who finds more than he anticipated during one last getaway with his friends to the sun-soaked LGBTQ mecca: an attraction to a prickly lawyer from Los Angeles (Conrad Ricamora) who makes his blood boil and his pulse quicken.
Inspiration struck actor and comedian Booster ("Sunnyside," "Big Mouth") — who also wrote and executive produced in his lead starring debut — when he brought a copy of Austen's 19th century Regency romance on his first visit to the island in 2016.
