'Cella' Prov that Disney Has a Long Way to Go Wh Gay Characters

Contents:

• MEET THE GAY CELLA STAR PORTRAYG DISNEY'S FIRST MAJOR LGBTQ+ ROLE
• CELLA SHOWS THAT DISNEY IS STILL STGGLG TO GET S “FIRST GAY CHARACTER” RIGHT
• HOW MANY TIM IS DISNEY GOG TO INTRODUCE ITS ‘FIRST’ GAY CHARACTER?
• CELLA REPORTEDLY FEATUR DISNEY’S FIRST PROMENT GAY CHARACTER
• CELLA REPORTEDLY FEATUR DISNEY’S FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER
• JOHN STAMOS MOCKS CONGRSNAL CANDIDATE WHO SAID 'CELLA' 'S GAY CHARACTER 'RUED' HIS CHILDHOOD
• JOHN STAMOS SHUTS DOWN OMAR NAVARRO'S COMPLAT OVER CELLA'S GAY CHARACTER
• CELLA CONFIRMED TO HAVE DISNEY’S FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER?

MEET THE GAY CELLA STAR PORTRAYG DISNEY'S FIRST MAJOR LGBTQ+ ROLE

A cric spotted a groundbreakg gay character Randolph, a wrer wh Rotten Tomato, noted the history-makg role a tweet last Friday followg an advanced screeng.

In what will please some LGBTQ+ crics, McCrea is an out gay man who is not prs-shy about his inty. "I fully realize as a young gay man myself that I have a rponsibily to speak for those people the dience who may feel much closer to the outst, " he told 2017 about his Jamie role.

Cella's May 28 premiere is good timg for Disney, which prevly was slammed for stg a straight actor, Jack Whehall, a gay role Jungle Cise. Now McCrea will make history as the first actor to play a major LGBTQ+ role a Disney productn, followg Lena Wahe's breakthrough lbian character Pixar's many Disney villas have been d as gay past animated films, this would be a first for the children's entertament the Cella trailer below. Cella’s Artie stands apart om other attempts at LGBTQ+ reprentatn bee he is a supportg character throughout the film and has a role wh the movie’s plot le bis beg the gay character the film.

CELLA SHOWS THAT DISNEY IS STILL STGGLG TO GET S “FIRST GAY CHARACTER” RIGHT

And John McCrea personally intifi as a gay man. Endgame had -director Joe Rso briefly meo as a gay man Endgame, while Rise of Skywalker’s was a blk-and-you’ll-miss kissg scene between two women the far background of a far, Disney’s most (and only) high-profile gay character was for 2017’s Bety and the Beast when Josh Gad’s LeFou danc wh a man at the end of the film. Not only is Disney not a lear on this issue, ’s quickly fallg Carell on the geni of the mnsOffEnglishFor Cella, the le is that Artie (John McCrea) is Disney’s first “major” gay character, which is only te if you don’t unt Josh Gad’s LeFou the live-actn Bety And The Beast.

’s Gay while Artie’s sexual inty is fixed McCrea’s head, the fact that “glam” and “gay” are not and never were synonymo also giv Disney an easy out. Determed to appeal to as many mographics as possible, the pany crav posive prs for s clivy, but is too timid to openly thumb s nose at the homophob the dience. Artie’s part n’t be cut out of Cella as easily as the “exclively gay moment” Bety And The Beast, which lasts for lerally two sends.

HOW MANY TIM IS DISNEY GOG TO INTRODUCE ITS ‘FIRST’ GAY CHARACTER?

But if was challenged by censors say, Cha, where homosexualy is legal but films wh LGBTQ+ them are still subject to cuts, plsible niabily about Artie’s sexualy uld still be mataed. McCrea has said terviews that the character was origally wrten as a drag queen, a form of exprsn that n’t be so easily untangled om gay culture. ” If a LGBTQ+ character’s spoe is ad, even better—like the much-ballyhooed “first gay character the MCU, ” a trmatized man Avengers: Endgame who tells a support group about how he burst to tears on a date five years after losg his hband to Thanos’ LGBTQ+ uple n appear together on screen if the characters don’t speak, like the moms seen the background pickg their kid up om school Toy Story 4 or the squabblg antelop Zootopia you wouldn’t know are married unls you pay close attentn to the creds.

But even fictn, where the jtic and equali of the real world only apply if a creator puts them there, a person like Artie is a means to an end—for Cella and for has learned a few thgs over s eight attempts to get s “first” LGBTQ+ character right: Unlike Jack Whehall, the straight actor st as Jungle Cise’s “first major gay character, ” McCrea intifi as a gay man, which mak the bejeweled pill of his Cella character a ltle easier to swallow. Sometim feels like we’ll never pe the disurse around Disney‘s “first” gay character. Basilly, his troductory scene nsists of Cella rollg up to a total stranger and sually askg, “Hey, do you experience homophobic harassment?

CELLA REPORTEDLY FEATUR DISNEY’S FIRST PROMENT GAY CHARACTER

Disney has been talkg about s First Canon Gay Character for the better part of the last , and lerally every time they flub so hard that they jt try the same announcement aga the next movie forever to fy.

CELLA REPORTEDLY FEATUR DISNEY’S FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER

Mark my fuckg words they're gonna give Ursula an extent tragic backstory about how sgg killed her mom or whatever and make one of the eels "Disney's first gay character" by havg him wk at a Male fish or sebastian— ADVANCE WARS BABEY (@dapper_spirs) May 29, 2021. The “first gay character” cycle is partly fueled by Disney’s own PR mpaigns, based around the ia that queer reprentatn is uniquely impactful a Disney movie. He follows a stereotype we’ve seen numero mastream films already: a flamboyantly-drsed gay man whose sexualy is renred yly apolil and irrelevant.

JOHN STAMOS MOCKS CONGRSNAL CANDIDATE WHO SAID 'CELLA' 'S GAY CHARACTER 'RUED' HIS CHILDHOOD

Disney wanted to make a Cella film whout any sense of edgs or danger, overlappg wh the stud’s quetoast approach to gay characters.

Emma Stone's 'Cella' featur Disney's "first" gay character—for at least the seventh.

Disney’s upg Cella, a live-actn orig story for the inic antagonist of 101 Dalmatians, is beg praised for featurg Disney’s first gay character.

JOHN STAMOS SHUTS DOWN OMAR NAVARRO'S COMPLAT OVER CELLA'S GAY CHARACTER

It’s a faiar tone for the pany, as Disney has pneered their “first” gay character at least 7 tim, give or take; Onward, Bety and the Beast, Jungle Cise, The Rise of Skywalker, Zootopia, Toy Story 4, and Avengers: Endgame all feature mor characters who make exceedgly subtle referenc htg at same-sex attractn.

In fact, jt recently Raya om Raya and the Last Dragon has felt like the clost step to reprentg a gay character wh a Disney movie wh Kelly Marie Tran nfirmg her Disney prcs is gay. One of Cella’s alli is Artie, a cross-drsg fashn geni, played by gay actor Jon McCrea.

Artie is the first openly gay character a Disney film. They’ve also suggted that the film, which releas May 28 theaters and on Disney+, ntas Disney’s first proment out gay character.

CELLA CONFIRMED TO HAVE DISNEY’S FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER?

Although 2017’s Bety and the Beast featured a lightly d gay character the form of LeFou, Randolph’s tweet seems to pot to a much more out and proud pictn Cella. Disney’s first proment live actn gay character was expected to be the fantasy adventure film Jungle Cise, based on Disney’s theme park attractn. Straight edian Jack Whehall stars as a “hugely effete, very mp” gay man, but the film has been repeatedly layed sce s origal 2019 release date.

But the meantime, viewers hopeful for more proment gay reprentatn om Disney’s live actn efforts should rema utly optimistic. Disney’s ‘Proud Fay’ revival featur gay uple voiced by Billy Porter and Zachary Quto.