Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this new column, we’ll be examining the celebrity couples—or, occasionally, friend pairs—who give us hope for our own romantic futures as we try to learn what we can from their well-documented bonds
If there’s one thing that’s always been true about me, it’s that I love it when guys hang out. Did I express this enjoyment in college by heckling frat boys to “KISS ALREADY” every time they made the mistake of walking past my gay little friend group on the quad? Absolutely, and I’m trying to tone it down now, as a 31-year-old woman, but I have to admit that I squealed with preadolescent joy when I saw the recent paparazzi photos of Jeremy Allen White and Austin Butler gently bro-ing out at a Colorado Rockies vs. Chicago Cubs game.
There’s so much to love about this outing (peep those very different yet casually complementary baseball caps!), but I think my favorite aspect of the photos is the fact that the strong-jawed hunks at its center—with all due respect to Jason Bateman and David Harbour, who were also there but did not get the cute-little-chapeau memo—are set to co-star in an A24 movie called…wait for it…Enemies. But they’re not enemies, they’re friends! The jokes write themselves! (Okay, I wrote that one, but the point stands.
I’m a devoted scholar of Jeremy Allen White lore, so I can say with confidence that the only thing more charming than his farmer’s-market flower addiction is his commitment to the Cubs. (I also happen to like that he still smokes, but that’s my own emotional baggage to sort through.) I mean, if you’re going to star in two shows about Chicago, you need to walk the walk—and all the better if you have an extremely chiseled male bestie to walk alongside you.
Dedicated reporter that I am, I googled “Austin Butler sports” to see if attending games is a regular thing for the lanky leading man, and found that he discussed his passion for New York-based athletic franchises in an interview with Hero Magazine last year. “I used to only be a Lakers fan, but now I’m a Lakers and a Knicks fan. After being in New York for so long, I went to so many Knicks games that I became a Knicks fan.” (And yet, he’s silent on the Mets vs. Yankees hometown rivalry!) Clearly, if Butler wants to stay in White’s good graces—not to mention the inner sanctum of his cool-guy friend group—he’s going to need to brush up on his baseball-viewing skills. After all, why not? Like White, he has a great face for hats!