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?
"I don’t re if Bert and Ernie are gay. I want to see actual gay people," said the edian, who voic Timon the Disney remake. * gay lion king *
” The character was famoly origated by openly gay actor Nathan Lane, five years before g out publicly The Advote 1999.
"Jafar's orig story is that he's gay and pissed." * gay lion king *
Eichner, who is also gay, recently spoke to Buzzfeed about takg on a role so fed by another actor.
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“I’m glad that [director] Jon Favre kept the tradn of Timon beg played by a gay actor, wh a certa type of edic sensibily, alive, ” Eichner said. “Gay people always had to sort of search for the closeted gay character, bee there were no openly gay characters, and we were so thirsty for them, ” he said. “People are always tryg to fd the gay character animated movi.
I thk the way to rrect that is to actually put gay characters animated movi. Takg a swipe at the first of Disney’s live-actn remak, Eichner referenced the blk-and-you’ll-miss- “exclively gay moment” (as touted by the movie’s out gay director Bill Condon) 2017’s “Bety and the Beast. “I would love to see a world where we don’t have to argue about, you know, whether what’s his name ‘Bety and the Beast’ is gay or not.