Kenny Ortega on 'High School Mil' and Beg a Gay Director - Variety

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• THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"
• KENNY ORTEGA SAYS RYAN OM HIGH SCHOOL MIL WAS ‘PROBABLY’ GAY
• HIGH SCHOOL MIL DIRECTOR KENNY ORTEGA REVEALS RYAN IS GAY, WOULD HAVE 'E OUT LLEGE'
• "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" DIRECTOR EXPLAS WHY RYAN EVANS WASN'T OPENLY GAY
• 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL': WHAT LUS GRABEEL SAID ABOUT RYAN EVANS BEG GAY
• HIGH SCHOOL MIL DIRECTOR REVEALS WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY IN MOVI
• ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ DIRECTOR KENNY ORTEGA CONFIRMS RYAN EVANS WAS GAY AND ‘PROBABLY GOG TO COME OUT COLLEGE’
• ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ DIRECTOR KENNY ORTEGA CONFIRMS LUS GRABEEL’S CHARACTER RYAN EVANS IS GAY
• 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' DIRECTOR KENNY ORTEGA NFIRMS SHARPAY'S BROTHER RYAN IS GAY AND WAS 'PROBABLY GOG TO E OUT LLEGE'
• ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ DIRECTOR REVEALS RYAN IS GAY, BUT WHY NOW?
• 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' DIRECTOR SAYS HE DIDN'T THK DISNEY WOULD BE OK WH GAY CHARACTER
• 'HSM' DIRECTOR CONFIRMS POPULAR CHARACTER IS INED GAY - INSI THE MAGIC
• HIGH SCHOOL MIL DIRECTOR NFIRMS SHARPAY'S BROTHER RYAN IS GAY
• HIGH SCHOOL MIL DIRECTOR CONFIRMS SHARPAY’S BROTHER RYAN IS GAY: IT WAS ‘QUIETLY THERE’

THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"

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In a new terview wh Variety, director Kenny Ortega opened up about his experience makg the High School Mil seri and said he thought the character of Ryan would have e out as gay later life. A lot of them see both Ryan and Kelsi — who went to prom together and had a subtle romantic storyle High School Mil 3 — as gay. Both Ryan and Kelsie are gay and they were each other's beards for senr year.

KENNY ORTEGA SAYS RYAN OM HIGH SCHOOL MIL WAS ‘PROBABLY’ GAY

n you believe hsm they tried to pass off kelsi, a leral lbian, as a heterosexual who was datg ryan, a leral gay. Ryan om High School Mil has officially been nfirmed as gay and hontly we been knew. Here is the gayt HSM song om the whole three movi.

everyone who grew up wh hsm, 10 years later, as adults: He Is Gay. I Dont Dance Is Gay.

But now Ortega has nfirmed Ryan would probably have e out as gay " llege", addg that his character the movi was "ls about g out and jt more about lettg his te lours e forward".

HIGH SCHOOL MIL DIRECTOR KENNY ORTEGA REVEALS RYAN IS GAY, WOULD HAVE 'E OUT LLEGE'

He went on to say that while Disney is "the most progrsive group of people" he's ever worked wh, he had ncerns that they "weren't ready" to have an openly gay character a Disney Channel movie 2006.

"HIGH SCHOOL MIL" DIRECTOR EXPLAS WHY RYAN EVANS WASN'T OPENLY GAY

I wanted people to thk, "That character's more plex than I thought, " stead of sayg, "Oh, he out pk and you know he's gay. Variety named Ortega as an honoree on s “Power of Pri” list and terviewed him about his long reer as an openly gay choreographer and director Hollywood as well as the queer athetic nng through his classic fay films, om Newsi and Hoc Poc to his more recent Disney Channel Origal Movi. ” When asked if would have been possible to wre Ryan as openly gay a Bh admistratn–era Disney Channel movie, Ortega answered:.

The fact that, 2020, Disney was velopg the gay-teen seri Love, Victor for Disney+ shows how far the stud has e. Kenny Ortega Says High School Mil’s Ryan ‘Probably’ Gay. One character particular—Sharpay's tw brother Ryan (Lus Grabeel)—ma many Broadway-lovg queer folks feel like they uld fally relate to someone one screen for once, and although there was nothg ever mentned about Ryan's romantic relatnships, queerns, or sexualy the origal tr of HSM films, wh performanc like really is no nyg that Ryan was a verable queer in his own now, fast forward to 2020, and looks like HSM stans are fally gog to get the nfirmatn they've a recent terview wh Variety, openly-gay choreographer and filmmaker Kenny Ortega (who directed all three HSM films) went on the rerd about Ryan.

"While sucks there was no explic mentn of him beg gay when the movi origally me out (n you image how big of an impact that would have been, pecially the mid-2000s?!? High School Mil director Kenny Ortega jt nfirmed what every fan has wonred sce the Disney Channel Origal Movie first aired back 2006: Ryan Evans (played by Lus Grabeel) is gay. " "It was ls about g out and jt more about lettg his te lors e forward, " Ortega says, notg that he "didn't thk at the time" that he uld have had an openly gay character on Disney Channel.

'HIGH SCHOOL MIL': WHAT LUS GRABEEL SAID ABOUT RYAN EVANS BEG GAY

While the character's sexualy wasn't nfirmed until now, his fashn choic, personaly, and actns throughout the trilogy rulted fans believg he was gay. And by closure, we mean explag why the character, played by Lus Grabeel, wasn't openly gay the movie anchise.

Kenny also revealed why he did not feel a versn of the seri wh an “openly gay” Ryan would have been possible when trilogy kicked off 2006. In the terview, Lus revealed that while he did envisn Ryan as a gay character, he wanted to portray his high school experienc as a close reflectn to Kenny’s own — and that meant not beg openly out. Though many fans assumed that Ryan was gay, the character never directly acknowledged his sexualy.

“People have always asked me if Ryan was gay, ” Grabeel says. I wanted people to thk, ‘That character’s more plex than I thought, ’ stead of sayg, ‘Oh, he out pk and you know he’s gay. High School Mil had a late addn to Pri Month this year when out director Kenny Ortega revealed an terview that the character of Ryan Evans (played by Lus Grabeel) was gay the trilogy of Disney movi.

HIGH SCHOOL MIL DIRECTOR REVEALS WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY IN MOVI

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High School Mil director Kenny Ortega has explaed why Ryan Evans wasn't openly gay the, played by Lus Grabeel, is one of the film's ma characters and -print of the Drama Club wh his tw sister. > Haton's L-Manuel Miranda Wants Beyoncé To Star In His Next MilThe filmmaker nfirmed that the character was gay but explaed why this wasn't shown the Disney Channel seri. Ortega admted that probably wouldn't have been possible when the origal High School Mil was released 2006 to have had an openly gay character the movi.

‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ DIRECTOR KENNY ORTEGA CONFIRMS RYAN EVANS WAS GAY AND ‘PROBABLY GOG TO COME OUT COLLEGE’

Ortega, who himself is openly gay, directed the whole High School Mil trilogy and Disney's Dcendants director discsed his reer as he was named as an honouree Variety’s Power of Pri list and suggted there was a queer athetic that ns through his work. High School Mil director Kenny Ortega revealed that fan-favore character Ryan Evans was gay, as well as explaed why the character's sexualy wasn't ma more apparent the ma the revelatn durg an terview wh Variety, published Tuday (June 30). "Ortega shared that the reason why he didn't make Ryan openly gay the movi was bee of Disney.

‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ DIRECTOR KENNY ORTEGA CONFIRMS LUS GRABEEL’S CHARACTER RYAN EVANS IS GAY

The HSM director, who is openly gay himself, nfirmed that Lus Grabeel’s character, Ryan Evans, was as well — even if wasn’t discsed the movi.

'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' DIRECTOR KENNY ORTEGA NFIRMS SHARPAY'S BROTHER RYAN IS GAY AND WAS 'PROBABLY GOG TO E OUT LLEGE'

When the mil film me out 2006, Ortega revealed that he wasn’t sure an openly gay character would’ve been possible. Director and choreographer Kenny Ortega revealed a recent terview that the character of Ryan Evans Disney's "High School Mil" anchise would have e out as gay llege. Ortega also revealed that he didn't thk was "possible" at the time of the movie's filmg to have an openly gay character.

‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ DIRECTOR REVEALS RYAN IS GAY, BUT WHY NOW?

"I didn't thk at the time — and Disney is the most progrsive group of people I've ever worked wh, " he acrdg to the director, there were subtle nods to Ryan's sexualy throughout all of the movi, even though the character wasn't openly gay. "High School Mil" director Kenny Ortega revealed a recent terview that the character Ryan Evans (Sharpay's tw brother the popular Disney anchise) would have e out as gay llege. After beg asked by Ram Setooh of Variety about the "queer athetic" that's prent many of his films, Ortega opened up about Lus Grabeel's character Ryan, a mil theater-lovg stunt whom many fans of the anchise believe to be gay.

'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' DIRECTOR SAYS HE DIDN'T THK DISNEY WOULD BE OK WH GAY CHARACTER

" Ortega also revealed to Variety that he didn't thk was possible to have an openly gay character while makg "High School Mil" the mid-2000s.

Ortega revealed that he didn’t thk was possible to have openly gay characters while makg the h that didn’t seem to stop Ortega. Ryan’s gay, right?

'HSM' DIRECTOR CONFIRMS POPULAR CHARACTER IS INED GAY - INSI THE MAGIC

“There’s so many amazgly talented gay actors who uld do as well, and so if ‘High School Mil’ was ma today, I don’t know if I would play Ryan. For many, Ryan may have been the only gay person a young LGBTQIA+ dividual would have accs to seeg or a small way gettg to know. 'High School Mil' Director Says He Didn't Thk Disney Would Be OK Wh Gay Character'High School Mil' director Kenny Ortega nfirms Ryan Evans is gay.

Source: DisneyArticle ntu below advertisementThe Hoc Poc director nfirmed to Variety that Ryan is ed gay, and though was not disclosed the film, Kenny explaed that was "cid he's probably gog to e out llege. "The director, who is openly gay himself, explaed that at the time, he didn't thk Disney would "be ready to cross that le and move to that terrory yet, " even though he nsired the work the "most progrsive group of people" he's worked wh.

HIGH SCHOOL MIL DIRECTOR NFIRMS SHARPAY'S BROTHER RYAN IS GAY

He was nfirmed to be gay HSMTMTS Season 4 teaser. Lus Grabeel, the actor, and director Kenny Ortega wanted to make Ryan gay, but after a meetg wh Disney their ia was nied as Disney did not thk a homosexual character was appropriate for a G-rated movie. Pl was nfirmed by Director Kenny Ortega that Ryan is homosexual and would probably have e out llege.

HIGH SCHOOL MIL DIRECTOR CONFIRMS SHARPAY’S BROTHER RYAN IS GAY: IT WAS ‘QUIETLY THERE’

"There's so many amazgly talented gay actors that uld do as well, so if 'High School Mil' was ma today, I don't know if I would play Ryan, " Grabeel said.

" The actor's statement me after "High School Mil" director Kenny Ortega nfirmed that the character Ryan was gay the movi, even though his sexualy was never explicly mentned. "There's so many amazgly talented gay actors that uld do as well, so if 'High School Mil' was ma today, I don't know if I would play Ryan, " Grabeel told TMZ via vio chat. Acrdg to Grabeel, Ortega (himself a gay man), said Ryan wasn't straight — but that Disney might not be ready for an openly gay character.

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