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JOSH GAD: ‘I DON’T THK WE DID JTICE TO WHAT A GAY CHARACTER A DISNEY FILM SHOULD BE’

‘Please Like Me’ Atralian-born 28-year-old gay edian Josh Thomas is currently releasg the third season of the (mostly) self-wrten dramedy “Please Like Me,” airg on ABC’s Pivot TV the U.S., Canada and Atralia. The succs of the show n be measured the three awards has received addn to numero nomatns. Starrg * josh gay comedian *

The Atralian edian Josh Thomas was at the olst gay bar New York, batg how much to say about a breakup. ’ ” On “Please Like Me, ” which he played a gay twentysomethg also named Josh, he rtaged the breakup almost word for wh many ntemporary edians, mg unpleasant experienc for humor—even tragic on—is send nature to Thomas. He began velopg “Please Like Me” nsultatn wh the Atralian Broadstg Corporatn, which eventually missned a first then, he was his early twenti, and jt begng to acknowledge the fact that he was gay.

As part of this reckong, Thomas rewrote the pilot of “Please Like Me, ” changg the sexualy of his character—and the work found self posssn of a s wh a gay lead.

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The actor, edian and voice of Olaf ‘Frozen’ tells Alexandra Pollard about his charmg new TV seri ‘Wolf Like Me’, his regrets over Bety and the Beast’s disappotg ‘exclively gay moment’, and why he thks cema has been ‘bombastilly dumbed down’ * josh gay comedian *

“The superpower I had wh ‘Please Like Me’ is that the gay person was based on me, ” Thomas told me.

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” He joked, “It’s, like, ‘Well, you’re gay, so that’ll be noble.

“I was, like, ‘Why are GLAAD better thori on homosexualy than I am? He relled rmg Freeform executiv, “I am a top-tier homosexual. They’re not more gay than me.

JOSH GAD SAYS HE DON'T THK 'BETY AND THE BEAST' DID 'JTICE TO WHAT A REAL GAY CHARACTER A DISNEY FILM SHOULD BE'

As LeFou, Gaston’s smarmy stooge 2017’s Bety and the Beast, the actor, edian and voice of Frozen’s Olaf was part of Disney’s first “exclively gay moment” – the grandse words of director Bill Condon. It turned out to be a two-send dance wh another man, which was neher exclive ( was a crowd scene) nor particularly gay (the two men uld easily have been iends).

’ My regret what happened is that beme ‘Disney’s first explicly gay moment’ and was never tend to be that. It was never tend to be a moment that we should ld ourselv for, bee ankly, I don’t thk we did jtice to what a real gay character a Disney film should be.

For example: "Dad, I'm gay.

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