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ou know who he is. He’s one of the hip, cunning, original minds who are shaping and forging a new kind of entertainment and comedy in Hollywood today. You can’t follow a link on Facebook or YouTube without seeing the almost Cheshire Cat-like smile of Jason Greene Brian Jordan Alvarez. He’s one even as Freckle of great threats for straight men bittersweet everywhere in CollegeHumor. new web series, com’s “Gay men Will Marry The Gay and Wondrous Your Girlfriends. He’s “Eliot,” Life of Caleb Gallo. The the vicious, backstabbing brilliant series explores boy-box competition in Jimmy gay men’s interactions with Ken Kirby as Fowlie’s web series, Go-Go Boy straight, (maybe, maybe not) Lenjamin Interrupted. You’ll also recognize bi and gender fluid friends, him as the effete “Wesley Masters,” a lesbians, long distance relationships Capote wannabe in the CW Network and brunch, of course. Perhaps series Jane the Virgin (“I’m kind love is in the cards for Caleb, of a pill,” Brian describes his too. character.) The soul-searching “Caleb 28-year-old Brian Jordan Gallo” is the human Alvarez has a growing magnet toward whom his catalogue of hilarious videos needy friends like Lenjamin on YouTube where he confronts Jimmy Fowlie McButtons, Freckle, Karen and conquers just about every as Chris (and just about everybody else subject you can imagine: astrology, in his own optimistic cosmos) plastic surgery, hooking up and rejection, gravitate. “The people in the show are friends and even bad breath. Generational of mine and that’s a very bonding experience differences (“Madonna? She’s really, to make something that’s high quality that really old.”) are examined in the painfully you like and really care about.” Look for accurate two-part “Gay Age Gap.” Or meet the brilliant Jimmy Fowlie (Go-Go Boy “Emil,” the South American who’s (more Interrupted) and Alvarez’ frequent sidekick than) “just a regular guy.” Stephanie Koenig as the emotional “Karen.” In 2015 he starred as “Ivan,” a shallow, party-hardy WeHo go-go boy in the aborted web series, Boy Toys. “I liked it, but I wasn’t able to sustain the energy completely,” Brian said in a critique of the single episode. “I thrive on creative control. It was fun, but my character was a little bit bitchy in a way that I’m not. I thought we either needed to fix that or go a totally different route.”
How “gay and wondrous” is the life of Brian Jordan Alvarez?
So Brian Jordan Alvarez took the road not often taken in show business. He writes, directs and stars in the very funny and
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“It feels great! It’s a beautiful life and I’m very grateful,” said Brian. “Life is always very imperfect, but I’m having a lot of wonderful success; I’m starting to become the star that I intended. I keep working and it’s paying off through the rough and tumble of it. I’m happy with whatever the universe offers me.”
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