I have completed five interviews over the last few days in relation to this forthcoming movie, I love you, Man, starring Paul Rudd and slated for release 3/20.  Interviews appear in The Toronto Star (Friday) and the Globe and Mail (Thursday).  A radio interview was completed with the Charles Adler Show (across Canada) and with Aaron Henkin's The Signal with WYPR (available by podcast at wypr.org).  For the interview with Aaron I talked to him and his best friend, Todd, about their lifelong friendship.  They describe it as "puerile and emotion-avoidant" in a joking way but maintain that feelings are not often expressed.  These are guys in their 30s, both married, with children.  When pressed about feelings between them, they readily admit to being best friends but will not characterize it further...typical men? You tell men.

One theme that continues to emerge in the newspaper interviews is that men do not pursue other men for friendships.  We will call a guy once but usually not twice.  We are accustomed to pursuing (and being rejected by) women.  Pursuing and being rejected by men is much more difficult - we are socialized to compete with men, not pursue them for friendships.  Bromance seems to occur between old buddies and to be less easy to establish between new found friends.