"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.
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ARE TIMON AND PUMBAA OM 'THE LN KG' GAY?
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” The character was famoly origated by openly gay actor Nathan Lane, five years before g out publicly The Advote 1999.
Eichner, who is also gay, recently spoke to Buzzfeed about takg on a role so fed by another actor. “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.
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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.
It jt should be gay, ” he said. I don’t re if Bert and Ernie are gay. I want to see actual gay people that are not a mystery.
The way to move on om all those bat is to jt create openly gay characters children’s programmg and fay entertament. Eichner says the characters aren’t gay, cg the ethil plitns of an terspeci relatnship. While Eichner don’t play the role as gay,.
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“I didn’t thk about him 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. the amount of people who replied to this sayg that shego was the e of their gay awakeng is outstandg so here’s an appreciatn post for our queen.