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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 male lover 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 changing dance partners and closure up paired with another man – a moment hardly worth writing residence 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
Josh Gad candidly comments on misleading queer controversy surrounding his Beauty and the Beast character LeFou
Josh Gad opened up about a controversy surrounding sexuality that hovered over his performance as LeFou in the 2017 live-action Disney motion picture 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 film with the outlet Attitude in 2017, said moviegoers would finally get to see 'a agreeable, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie,' but it turned out to be a short sequence in which Gad's LeFou was seen dancing with a man.
'I denote , if I were gay, I'm sure I'd be pissed,' Gad said of the public's reaction to the scene in his fresh book In Gad We Trust, Show Weekly reported after publishing excerpts from the book, which was released Tuesday.
The Hollywood, Florida native said in the book he felt that the traits was too peripheral and the scene too brief to live up the director's hype.
'I for one certainly didn't exactly feel love LeFou was who the queer people had been
Josh Gad Shares Regrets About Queer LeFou In Disney’s Live-Action ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Remake
The actor is opening up about the general response and the global controversy surrounding his Beauty and the Beast character in his recent memoir…
Eight years after the discharge of Disney’s live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, thespian 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 gay, and brushes off the implication that the 2017 film was intended to feature Disney’s “first-ever queer character” despite a brief scene towards the end of the film in which his ethics, LeFou, was seen dancing with another man.
“I for one certainly didn’t exactly feel like LeFou was who the queer group had been wistfully waiting for,” Gad writes. “I can’t quite imagine a Pride celebration in honor of the ‘cinematic watershed moment’ involving a quasi-villainous Disney sidekick dancing with a bloke for half a second. I mean, if I we
Actor Josh Gad has just published a memoir: In Gad We Trust.
The publication came out Tuesday and Entertainment Weekly published some extracts yesterday. In it, the Frozen celestial body, 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 show was a great box office accomplishment, 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 guide he felt the character was too peripheral to exist up to Condon’s comments about him.
“If I were homosexual, I’m sure I’d be pissed,” Gad says.
“I for one certainly didn’t exactly feel like LeFou was who the queer community had been wistfully waiting for … I can’t quite envision a Pride celebration in honor of the ‘cinematic watershed moment’ involving a quasi-villainous Dis