Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen say they n’t nfirm if their characters 'The Ln Kg' are gay or not, but they do feel we need more LGBTQ reprentatn on screen.
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ARE TIMON AND PUMBAA OM 'THE LN KG' GAY?
Cape Town – Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen, who voice Timon and Pumbaa the live-actn The Ln Kg remake, say although they don’t thk and they n’t nfirm whether or not their characters are gay, we do need more LGBTQ reprentatn on screen.
Eichner mented that people often assume bee the actor is gay, the character they play mt be too. "I mean, I’m gay and Nathan Lane’s gay, so ’s tertg when a straight actor do a role, no one’s like, ‘That character mt be straight. ’ But bee ’s Nathan and me they’re like, ‘Oh, Timon mt be gay.
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’ Which is not to say he’s not gay. "It would be ol to see more openly LGBT characters fay entertament and animated films, " he said, "so we don’t have to have annoyg discsns about whether Bert and Ernie are gay or not. ""Hopefully movg forward there will be openly gay characters the typ of movi.
"In an terview wh Buzzfeed News, Eichner said we always have to look for the “closeted gay character” films when we should fact be more open, hont and clive of everyone. "Well, that really opened the door to more gay rats gettg married, which I really appreciate. He was jt at the Gay World Softball Seri at Axis Bar Columb, Oh.
The actor told BuzzFeed he was happy director John Favre "kept the tradn of Timon beg played by a gay actor, wh a certa type of edic sensibily, alive. "I didn't thk about [Timon] beg gay so much as I thought, 'Well, I'm gay, and I have what some may nsir a gay sensibily, and I'm gog to brg that to the table, ' jt the way that Nathan did...