Zane Phillips and Joel Kim Booster just gave the gays a little reunion moment on Apple TV+, and honestly, it feels like being handed a warm cup of Fire Island nostalgia with a side of gym gains.
The thirty-two-year-old Zane has clearly been investing some serious time sculpting his already enviable frame, and his latest cameo on the Apple TV+ comedy series Loot shows off the results in a way that should probably come with a viewer warning.
His appearance also reunites him with Joel Kim Booster, marking the first time the two have shared the screen since their sun-drenched queer rom-com hit Fire Island back in 2022.
Booster, never one to miss an opportunity to gush over a friend, posted a sweet and funny tribute on Instagram, calling Zane “smart and sweet and FUNNY,” which is basically the gay version of sending someone a bouquet of roses with a wink emoji.
Phillips pops up in episode eight as a character named Mr Maro Gold, and even though his appearance is brief, fans immediately clocked the upgraded muscle situation and absolutely refused to act normal about it.
The cameo dropped just as Loot is hitting its stride in its third season, with Maya Rudolph leading the series as Molly Wells, a billionaire divorcée who tries to rebuild her life by throwing herself into charity work and extremely expensive emotional healing.
But Zane wasn’t content with just blowing up social media through acting alone, because he also released a brand-new music video this week for his track Scorpio (Death Stare), which is part of an astrology-themed project called Retrograde The Musical.
The concept is delightfully chaotic, with each month bringing a new song tied to the astrological season, and the creators are building toward a full album and eventual stage project that already feels destined to attract gays, theatre kids, and astrology-obsessed millennials in equal measure.
In the video, Zane serves leather-clad, moody rock-star energy, leaning hard into an emo aesthetic that feels like the love child of early-2000s punk and modern queer glam, and fans immediately lost their collective minds over how effortlessly he fits the vibe.
He is joined on the wider project by a list of queer-adjacent favorites including Bonnie McKee, Dylan Mulvaney, Matt Rogers, Vincint, and Liisi LaFontaine, making it feel almost engineered in a lab to appeal to LGBTQ+ audiences.
Between the reunion with Booster, the jacked new look, and the rock-star reinvention, it’s safe to say Zane Phillips is deep in his “main character era,” and we are simply grateful bystanders watching the glow-up unfold in real time.
So whether you’re tuning in for the Loot cameo, the Fire Island nostalgia, or the Scorpio-season chaos of his new music drop, this week is basically a Zane Phillips buffet, and we are absolutely going back for seconds.