Josh God said LeFou was not properly reprented as a gay man, spe the "Bety and the Beast" team claimg LeFou had a gay moment.
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- JOSH GAD SHAR ‘REGRET’ OVER GAY ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’ REVEAL: ‘WE DIDN’T GO FAR ENOUGH’
- JOSH GAD SHAR REGRET OVER GAY LEFOU ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’: ‘WE DIDN’T GO FAR ENOUGH’
- JOSH GAD: ‘I DON’T THK WE DID JTICE TO WHAT A GAY CHARACTER A DISNEY FILM SHOULD BE’
JOSH GAD SHAR ‘REGRET’ OVER GAY ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’ REVEAL: ‘WE DIDN’T GO FAR ENOUGH’
Josh Gad as LeFou Disney's "Bety and the Beast" live actn remake didn't "go far enough" to -stigmatize gay characters onscreen. * josh wald gay *
Five years after Gad took on the role of LeFou Disney’s live-actn remake, the “Wolf Like Me” actor is slammg the hype around the “exclively gay moment” onscreen, as director Bill Condon tegorized 2017. “My regret what happened is that beme ‘Disney’s first explicly gay moment’ and was never tend to be that, ” Gad told The Inpennt.
“It was never tend to be a moment that should ld ourselv for, bee ankly, I don’t thk we did jtice to what a real gay character a Disney film should be. Gad also noted that “there was nothg the script that said ‘LeFou is gay.
JOSH GAD SHAR REGRET OVER GAY LEFOU ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’: ‘WE DIDN’T GO FAR ENOUGH’
* josh wald gay *
'” Now, the actor is revealg his te thoughts about beg LeFou beg d as gay. An Alabama theater boytted the film, starg Emma Watson and Dan Stevens the tular lead rol, and Disney pulled the movie om Malaysia after chairman of the Malaysian film censorship board, Abdul Halim Abdul Hamid, censored a specific “gay moment. As IndieWire’s Ju Dry wrote the review, “As for that gay moment, ’s tough to know which one he meant.
Josh Gad recently told The Inpennt that he has some regrets over how Disney’s 2017 live actn “Bety and the Beast” remake handled makg his character a gay man. The movie’s director, Bill Condon, announced USA Today ahead of the film’s release that his “Bety and the Beast” would troduce Disney’s first openly gay character. Condon said Gad’s LeFou had “an exclively gay moment” the movie, but all that turned out to be was a blk-and-you’ll-miss- shot of LeFou dancg wh a man.
’ My regret what happened is that beme ‘Disney’s first explicly gay moment’ and was never tend to be that.
JOSH GAD: ‘I DON’T THK WE DID JTICE TO WHAT A GAY CHARACTER A DISNEY FILM SHOULD BE’
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. Once the film opened theaters, Condon and Gad were wily cricized for pattg themselv on the back when the movie ntaed virtually no gay moment whatsoever. Gad told USA Today at the film’s 2017 premiere that while the script did not nfirm LeFou is gay, he was “honored” to have the chance to epen the character the live-actn versn.