Bety and the Beast: Gay moment overblown, director says |

Contents:

• ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’ DIRECTOR TALKS OF ‘EXCLIVELY GAY’ MOMENT
• BILL CONDON ON 'BETY AND THE BEAST' GAY NTROVERSY: 'I'M SORT OF SICK OF THIS'
• ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’ LEFOU’S GAY MOMENT DETAILS, JOSH GAD TALKS HIS CHARACTER
• BETY AND THE BEAST DIRECTOR SAYS 'EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT' WAS 'OVERBLOWN'
• 'BETY AND THE BEAST' WILL TRODUCE WORLD TO FIRST GAY DISNEY CHARACTER
• JOSH GAD: 'BETY AND THE BEAST' SCRIPT DIDN'T SAY 'LEFOU IS GAY'
• THE “EXCLIVELY GAY” CHARACTER THE BETY AND THE BEAST REMAKE IS NOT AS REVOLUTNARY AS DISNEY THKS IT IS
• WHY 'BETY AND THE BEAST' DIRECTOR MA GASTON'S SIKICK LEFOU GAY
• BETY & THE BEAST WILL MAKE DISNEY HISTORY WH FIRST GAY CHARACTER

‘BETY AND THE BEAST’ DIRECTOR TALKS OF ‘EXCLIVELY GAY’ MOMENT

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”Bill Condon, who directed the film, and is openly gay, told the Brish magaze Attu that the manservant LeFou, played by Josh Gad, has “a nice, exclively gay moment” the movie, which has s premiere here on Thursday and arriv theaters the Uned Stat on March Condon ntued: “LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston.

BILL CONDON ON 'BETY AND THE BEAST' GAY NTROVERSY: 'I'M SORT OF SICK OF THIS'

” The Daily Dot, whout havg seen the movie, stomped s foot, sayg that a gay LeFou was “hardly a high pot for posive L. Condon’s word choice — “exclively” gay?

Gad is not gay. LeFou sure seemed to have a csh on Gaston Disney’s 1991 animated versn of “Bety and the Beast, ” ntug a tradn of Disney sikicks that seem to be gay whout statg . A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn C, Page 3 of the New York edn wh the headle: ‘Bety and the Beast’ to Have ‘Gay Moment’.

Bill Condon is gettg tired of everyone talkg about his new film’s “gay moment. 'BEAUTY AND THE BEAST' FEATURES 'GAY MOMENT, ' DIRECTOR REVEALS“Can I jt say, I’m sort of sick of this, ” explaed the 61-year-old to the publitn. ’s Attu magaze about LeFou experiencg a “gay moment” the film.

‘BETY AND THE BEAST’ LEFOU’S GAY MOMENT DETAILS, JOSH GAD TALKS HIS CHARACTER

But ’s a nice, exclively gay moment a Disney movie.

Actors Le Evans, Josh Gad and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (L-R bottom) Director Bill Condon, Actors Dan Stevens, Emma Watson, Audra McDonald and Composer Alan Menken arrive for the world premiere of Disney's live-actn 'Bety and the Beast' at the El Capan Theatre and the Beast featur Disney’s first openly gay character, LeFou (Josh Gad), and acrdg to the film’s director, Bill Condon, there is an “exclively gay moment” volvg LeFou and another character. Condon’s revelatn has triggered some extreme reactns, cludg an Alabama-based theater refg to screen Bety and the Beast and Rsia mullg banng the gay moment qutn shows LeFou “subtly flirtg” wh Gaston (Le Evans), acrdg to Entertament Weekly (EW). Bety and the Beast director says 'exclively gay moment' was 'overblown' Bill Condon is walkg back ments he ma over LeFou's g out.

BETY AND THE BEAST DIRECTOR SAYS 'EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT' WAS 'OVERBLOWN'

The director first announced Josh Gad’s LeFou would e out of the closet a recent issue of Attu magaze, givg Disney s first openly gay character. At the time, he referred to as “an exclively gay moment, ” but has sce downplayed his past remarks durg an terview wh ScreenCsh. But is a nice, exclively gay moment a Disney movie.

” BBC further reports the film may not screen Rsia, given the untry’s law that bans what Rsian officials em “gay propaganda” to mors.

Gad remarked to USA Today on the film’s premiere, “There was nothg the script that said ‘LeFou is gay.

'BETY AND THE BEAST' WILL TRODUCE WORLD TO FIRST GAY DISNEY CHARACTER

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JOSH GAD: 'BETY AND THE BEAST' SCRIPT DIDN'T SAY 'LEFOU IS GAY'

It has a gay man.

the lead and 's not a perky, gay-liftyle movie. ”Although Disney films may have hted at homosexualy the past, cludg the speculatn over Frozen's Elsa, this would mark the first openly gay character to be featured  one -- a landmark moment that has the potential to impact s global dience, pecially untri where LGBT reprentatn is even ls visible on and the Beast hs theaters March most mt-see films of 2017, om 'Bety and the Beast' to 'Star Wars'. Speakg of Jam Whale, who was an openly gay director the 1930s and 1940s, you said a past terview that “there is a gay sensibily everythg” you do, cludg the Twilight movi, and that dienc, which are still domated by the straight male pot of view, might “bristle agast that gay sensibily when ’s too evince or when feels to them appropriate.

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THE “EXCLIVELY GAY” CHARACTER THE BETY AND THE BEAST REMAKE IS NOT AS REVOLUTNARY AS DISNEY THKS IT IS

The live-actn Bety and the Beast don't arrive theaters until March 17, but fans are already buzzg about how the movie featur Disney's first gay character, LeFou, played by Josh Gad.

"I haven't seen anythg (about that), tell me more, " Gad joked on the rpet for the world premiere of Bety and the Beast y, he's "really proud" to play LeFou, a character who has a "wonrful gay moment" the film, as director Bill Condon lled at the premiere.

Gad ma clear, however, that "there was nothg the script that said ‘LeFou is gay.

WHY 'BETY AND THE BEAST' DIRECTOR MA GASTON'S SIKICK LEFOU GAY

Last Thursday, emerged that Malaysia’s censorship board — known as the LPF — had mand that material be cut om the film, cludg a brief, three-send “gay moment. In a lengthy terview wh the New Sunday Tim published Sunday, Malaysia censorship board chairman Abdul Halim suggted that his anizatn’s hand had been forced by director Bill Condon’s recent remarks clarifyg the fact that Josh Gad’s character the film (Gaston’s sikick LeFou) is gay. “Maybe if Condon had not mentned the ‘gay element, ’ people wouldn’t be so cur and we uld let go wh a potentially mor cut, ” Halim said the NST terview.

We at LPF want to prerve films as much as how they are tend by the director, but the moment the ‘gay element’ is thrown to the mix, we had to protect ourselv. Malaysia has strict laws agast homosexualy.

BETY & THE BEAST WILL MAKE DISNEY HISTORY WH FIRST GAY CHARACTER

Sex between men is illegal the untry and gay characters are allowed to be picted on screen only if they show repentance or are portrayed a negative light. behd the ia of a gay inty, don't know what to do wh the ia. Passg the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu bill would further rce eedoms a untry where gay sex is already punishable wh up to three years jail, crics and activists Odoi, an amic rearcher, filed a lawsu on July 7 challengg the bill's nstutnaly, sayg would impact donor aid and other forms of fancial support.

Ghana's Supreme Court on Wednday led her arguments were not sufficiently nvcg to grant an lg cleared the way for the bill, one of the harsht towards the LGBTQ muny Ai, to go through a fal stage of parliamentary approval before beg signed to May, Uganda's Print Yoweri Meveni signed one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQ laws, which spelled out the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy"'s bill, backed by relig and tradnal lears, clus jail sentenc of up to 10 years for advotg for LGBTQ rights. The upg live-actn Bety and the Beast remake will be the first Disney movie to feature an openly gay character, acrdg to director Bill Condon—and no, ’s not Lumière or Cogsworth. Condon revealed an terview wh Attu that Josh Gad’s characer, LeFou (the sikick to villao Gaston), will have what he lls an “exclively gay moment” the film.