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Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis Make the Yuletide Gay in 'Happiest Season' Trailer
We're so used to giving and now we get to receive (dot gif): The first trailer for Hulu's Happiest Season is here, previewing the homosexual Christmas rom-com starring Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis.
Stewart plays Abby, whose plans to propose to Harper (Davis) at her family's annual Christmas dinner are complicated when she learns Harper isn't out to her nearest and dearest. At some point, someone is all but guaranteed to shout, "Well, Merry freaking Christmas" while storming out of a room.
Allison Brie, Victor Garber and Mary Steenburgen co-star as Harper's conservative family, with Dan Levy as Abby's sage best friend and Aubrey Plaza as a woman from Harper's past. The rom-com hails from director Clea DuVall from a script she co-wrote with Mary Holland (who also stars). Watch the trailer below.
Happiest Season premieres Nov. 25 on Hulu. In the meantime, the movie's soundtrack is out now, featuring festive new tunes and classic Christmas covers by the likes of Tegan and Sara, SIA, Bebe Rexha and more.
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Stewart and Davis star in Hulu‘s newest holiday rom-com, Happiest Season, which premiered on November 25. In the film, Stewart plays Abby, a woman who travels to her girlfriend Harper’s (Davis) family’s home in Pittsburgh for Christmas. On the car ride there, Harper tells Abby that she’s not out to her family and they have to fictional to be roommates instead of girlfriends until she tells her parents that she’s gay.
Along with Stewart, Happiest Season also stars out actors Dan Levy and Aubrey Plaza who play Abby’s best friend, John, and Harper’s ex-girlfriend, Riley, respectively. After the movie premiered, fans wondered about Davis’ sexuality. In an interview with Variety on November 23, Stewart confirmed that Davis identifies as straight but that shouldn’t stop her from playing a gay role. “I will state, Mackenzie is not somebody who identifies as a lesbian. She was the only person in my
Mackenzie Davis Is Overwhelmed Too
It somehow feels very appropriate for 2020 that my first question for the 33-year-old Canadian actress Mackenzie Davis, co-star of the lesbian holiday rom-com Happiest Season, makes her cry.
Davis is speaking to me from a dim, modern-looking London Airbnb. Her drawn-out hair is pulled support and has been dyed back to the blonde that it wasn’t in Hulu’s Happiest Season (her character is a brunette). After I mention the fraughtness of this moment — the pandemic, the election — she stands and ducks out of the Zoom window momentarily. “Sorry,” she says when she returns. “My kettle was boiling, and I was starting to sob so … just execute both. Sorry, I’ve never cried in an interview before.”
It has been a hell of a year, we both acknowledge, with a lot of never befores. I tell her that basically anyone I talk to who’s going through a hard second feels as though they need to append their woes with a disclaimer. Davis does the similar, making sure to admit that “the past four years have been true hell for so many people — at the very least of them me, because of certain demographics that I fit into. I’ve been fit to not feel the weight of some of the m
Your Guide to the Super Gay Cast of Happiest Season
Happiest Season,the heartwarming recent Christmas movie about meeting your girlfriend’s parents for the first time—while having to hide that she’s your girlfriend—features more out LGBTQ stars than any studio romantic comedy in memory. The movie, which comes out on Hulu on Nov. 25, boasts Kristen Stewart’s first real rotate as a rom-com heroine, but its queerness doesn’t halt with its story or its top-billed star.
If you’re love me in that you automatically take for granted any film that throws around “Sappho” as a slapstick pejorative must’ve been made by more than a scant friends of Dorothy, read on. We’re here to part down who is gay, who is bisexual, and who is just an icon.
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Clea DuVall (Director and Co-writer)
Happiest Season writer-director Clea DuVall has been a part of queer woman film history for more than 20 years thanks to her role in the cult classic But I’m a Cheerleader, in which she played a gay teen forced to attend a conversion-therapy camp. She’s been candid about her coming-out journey since, while also continuing to sta