You don’t expect to see a movie named “Dicks: The Musical” on the marquee and neither did its makers.
Aaron Jackson, from left, Josh Sharp and Bowen Yang pose for a portrait to promote the film"Dicks: The Musical" during the Toronto International Film Festival, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023, in Toronto. It’s the nature of creating a delirious, Dadaist riff on “The Parent Trap” — only with two obviously dissimilar gay men as long-lost identical twins and Bowen Yang playing God — that you can never be sure it’s really happening.
“I sometimes miss comedies like that were just like: This is dumb and we’re going to do a bunch of jokes,” says Sharp. “We just tried to make our own favorite movie. It’s just sort of the movie we wish existed.” “We never wanted it to feel like parody. It was more using it as a trope,” says Sharp. “‘The Parent Trap’ now is basically The Odyssey. It’s a form we all know.”
“To me, they’re like a gay Abbott and Costello,” says Charles. “The possibilities of what they can do together are boundless. Like Sacha they’re undiscovered treasures that the audience is waiting for and doesn’t even realize it.”