Josh Gad don't believe Disney went far enough to earn praise for his character's "gay moment" 2017's Bety and the Beast.
Contents:
- JOSH GAD: ‘I DON’T THK WE DID JTICE TO WHAT A GAY CHARACTER A DISNEY FILM SHOULD BE’
- SNL'S FROZEN 2 'DELETED SCEN' SHOW ELSA COME OUT AS GAY WHILE OLAF, UM, GROWS UP
- DISNEY'S FROZEN AND THE 'GAY AGENDA'
- JOSH GAD BELIEV DISNEY DIDN’T DO HIS GAY CHARACTER JTICE ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’
- LEMONY SNICKET HAS THE GAY TV VILLAS WE'VE BEEN WAG FOR
- JOSH GAD EXPLAS HIS DISAPPOTMENT WH DISNEY'S SO-CALLED 'GAY MOMENT' BETY AND THE BEAST
- 8 WAYS FROZEN IS DISNEY’S GAYT ANIMATED FILM YET
JOSH GAD: ‘I DON’T THK WE DID JTICE TO WHAT A GAY CHARACTER A DISNEY FILM SHOULD BE’
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’ * olaf gay *
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.
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And quickly be abundantly clear why that was the first leted scene featur Elsa, droppg some not-so-subtle hts that she is gay.
SNL'S FROZEN 2 'DELETED SCEN' SHOW ELSA COME OUT AS GAY WHILE OLAF, UM, GROWS UP
Josh Gad believ Disney uld have done a lot more for his gay character, LeFou, the live actn film, "Bety and the Beast." * olaf gay *
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DISNEY'S FROZEN AND THE 'GAY AGENDA'
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Gad ma history as LeFou beg Disney’s first “exclively gay moment, ” as director, Bill Condon, put . In October 2019, a marriage semar for about 30 upl, Latzel mented on what he lled the “homolobby.
JOSH GAD BELIEV DISNEY DIDN’T DO HIS GAY CHARACTER JTICE ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’
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LEMONY SNICKET HAS THE GAY TV VILLAS WE'VE BEEN WAG FOR
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JOSH GAD EXPLAS HIS DISAPPOTMENT WH DISNEY'S SO-CALLED 'GAY MOMENT' BETY AND THE BEAST
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The actor who played LeFou the ‘Bety and the Beast’ remake don’t thk Disney has done enough for gay reprentatnJosh Gad often gets creded wh playg the first openly gay characters a Disney film.
At the time of the movie’s release, director Bill Condon created buzz wh the claim that Gad’s performance of LeFou was Disney’s first gay character. And Josh mak somethg really subtle and lic out of , ” Condon ntued, promisg the “payoff'” of an “exclively gay moment” at the end of the big gay moment turned out to be a uple of sends of two men (one drag) dancg an ensemble fale. The unrwhelmg gay moment Bety and the Beast, however, was built up as somethg more overt, leavg many LGBTQ+ viewers disappoted wh s ambiguy and tak the si of those let down his recent terview, sayg, “We didn’t go far enough to say, ‘Look how brave we are.