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Josh Gad Shares Regrets About Gay LeFou In Disney’s Live-Action ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Remake
The actor is opening up about the widespread response and the global controversy surrounding his Beauty and the Beast traits in his new memoir…
Eight years after the discharge of Disney’s live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, actor Josh Gad is reflecting on the controversy surrounding the film’s so-called “exclusively gay moment.” In his just-released memoir In Gad We Trust, Gad claims that he “never once” played his character LeFou as same-sex attracted, and brushes off the implication that the 2017 film was intended to feature Disney’s “first-ever same-sex attracted character” despite a concise scene towards the terminate of the film in which his character, LeFou, was seen dancing with another man.
“I for one certainly didn’t exactly perceive like LeFou was who the queer community had been wistfully waiting for,” Gad writes. “I can’t quite imagine a Identity festival celebration in honor of the ‘cinematic watershed moment’ involving a quasi-villainous Disney sidekick dancing with a man for half a second. I mean, if I we
Josh Gad candidly comments on misleading gay controversy surrounding his Beauty and the Beast character LeFou
Josh Gad opened up about a controversy surrounding sexuality that hovered over his recital as LeFou in the 2017 live-action Disney movie Beauty and the Beast.
The 43-year-old actor's character was pals with the Gaston character played by Luke Evans in the motion picture, which also featured Emma Watson, Dan Stevens and Kevin Kline, and was directed by Bill Condon.
Condon, promoting the movie with the outlet Attitude in 2017, said moviegoers would finally get to glimpse 'a nice, exclusively queer moment in a Disney movie,' but it turned out to be a brief sequence in which Gad's LeFou was seen dancing with a man.
'I mean, if I were gay, I'm sure I'd be pissed,' Gad said of the public's reaction to the scene in his new book In Gad We Trust, Fun Weekly reported after publishing excerpts from the novel, which was released Tuesday.
The Hollywood, Florida native said in the book he felt that the nature was too peripheral and the scene too concise to live up the director's hype.
'I for one certainly didn't exactly touch like LeFou was who the queer community had been
Actor Josh Gad has just published a memoir: In Gad We Trust.
The guide came out Tuesday and Entertainment Weekly published some extracts yesterday. In it, the Frozen star, 43, talks about that much-hyped, blink-and-you-miss-it “gay moment” from Beauty And The Beast.
The 2017 live-action remake starred Emma Watson, Dan Stevens and Kevin Kline. Luke Evans played Gaston while Gad played Gaston’s sidekick and friend, LeFou.
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The movie was a big box office victory, taking $1.26 billion worldwide.
That “gay moment” turned out to be a fleeting shot of LeFou and Gaston dancing together at the movie’s end.
Gad says in his book he felt the character was too peripheral to reside up to Condon’s comments about him.
“If I were gay, I’m sure I’d be pissed,” Gad says.
“I for one certainly didn’t exactly feel like LeFou was who the gender non-conforming community had been wistfully waiting for … I can’t quite imagine a Pride celebration in honor of the ‘cinematic watershed moment’ involving a quasi-villainous Dis
Josh Gad On Role As Gay LeFou In Live-Action Beauty In The Beast: “We Didn’t Go Far Enough”
According to Disney actor Josh Gad, despite the media’s lauding of his role as LeFou in the live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast as Disney’s ‘first homosexual character’, the character “didn’t go far enough to warrant accolades”.
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In 2017, Disney made headlines with the announcement that Gad’s version of LeFou would be the company’s first openly gay character, earning a bevy of praise for this decision from such outlets as The Hollywood Reporter, Vanity Reasonable, and NBC News.
However, when the film premiered, fans discovered that the character’s sexuality was only briefly hinted at in a ‘blink-and-you’ll-miss-it’ moment seen at the film’s conclusion wherein LeFou is seen transferring dance partners and conclusion up paired with another man – a moment hardly worth writing dwelling about.
Reflecting back on this media fervor during a recent interview with The Independent, Gad revealed that he felt much of this hype was unwarranted, as the film “didn’t go far enough to warrant acc
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