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.
Contents:
- WILL SIMBA THE LN BE GAY 'THE LN KG' REMAKE?
- THE LNS SHARE OF DISNEY MOURS: IS SIMBA GAY THE LN KG 2019?
- ARE TIMON AND PUMBAA OM 'THE LN KG' GAY?
- "THE LN KG" CHARACTER OFTEN NSIRED A GAY IN CROSSWORD CLUE
- MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
WILL SIMBA THE LN BE GAY 'THE LN KG' REMAKE?
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Disney announced that the Simba character would be portrayed as gay their remake of 'The Ln Kg.
On 1 April 2017, the web se Pk News published an article reportg that Disney had announced the Simba character would e out as gay the upg photorealistic puter animated (or CGI) remake of The Ln Kg:. Everyone’s favoure ln Simba will e out as gay the upg live-actn remake of The Ln Kg, Disney has nfirmed. However, followg the succs of Bety and the Beast’s gay moment, there will be a key twist to the plot to brg the film up to date wh the morn world.
Speakg exclively to PkNews, a source close to the productn revealed that Simba will be gay the upg remake. Acrdg to the source, Simba realis that he is gay durg his teenage years after chancg upon same-sex uple Timon and Pumbaa the wilrns.
THE LNS SHARE OF DISNEY MOURS: IS SIMBA GAY THE LN KG 2019?
"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. * the gay lion king *
Although nsirable hoopla took place over a "gay moment" the recent live-actn versn of Bety and the Beast, Disney did not make any announcements about the sexual orientatns of s animated animal characters The Ln Kg remake.
Still, many rears were fooled by the article, so Pk News published a send piece explag that the prev "Simba will be gay upg live-actn Ln Kg remake, Disney nfirms" story was a hoax:. It is a PkNews tradn to n an April Fools’ day article, and this year we broke the “news” that Simba would be gay upg live-actn Ln Kg remake.
In the story, we wrote that Simba realis that he is gay durg his teenage years after chancg upon same-sex uple Timon and Pumbaa the wilrns.
ARE TIMON AND PUMBAA OM 'THE LN KG' GAY?
Few Disney characters are explicly clared to be gay by the stud, but viewers have picked up on "gay dg." CBR explor. * the gay lion king *
This isn't the first time that ntroversy has arisen over (alleged) pictns of homosexualy Disney movi. "Please Chill Out About the ‘Bety and the Beast’ Gay Scene.
"It Turns Out Homophob Couldn’t Handle Simba Beg Gay the Ln Kg Reboot. "Simba Will Be Gay Upg Live-Actn Ln Kg Remake, Disney Confirms.
There have been some chang, but is Simba gay The Ln Kg? Let’s take a have qutned whether Simba is gay the forthg live-actn remake of The Ln Kg and there’s been some slight nfn.
"THE LN KG" CHARACTER OFTEN NSIRED A GAY IN CROSSWORD CLUE
Is Simba gay The Ln Kg? It turns out that the recent doubt stems back to an April Fools joke om 2017; as reported by Snop, was Pk News which orchtrated the prank, claimg that Simba would be gay the remake.
Cape Town – Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen, who voice Timon and Pumbaa the live-actn The Ln Kg remake, say although they don’t thk and they n’t nfirm whether or not their characters are gay, we do need more LGBTQ reprentatn on screen. Eichner mented that people often assume bee the actor is gay, the character they play mt be too. "I mean, I’m gay and Nathan Lane’s gay, so ’s tertg when a straight actor do a role, no one’s like, ‘That character mt be straight.
’ But bee ’s Nathan and me they’re like, ‘Oh, Timon mt be gay.
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’ Which is not to say he’s not gay. "It would be ol to see more openly LGBT characters fay entertament and animated films, " he said, "so we don’t have to have annoyg discsns about whether Bert and Ernie are gay or not. ""Hopefully movg forward there will be openly gay characters the typ of movi.
"In an terview wh Buzzfeed News, Eichner said we always have to look for the “closeted gay character” films when we should fact be more open, hont and clive of everyone. "Well, that really opened the door to more gay rats gettg married, which I really appreciate. ” 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.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
“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.