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Josh Gad says he doesn't think 'Beauty and the Beast' did 'justice to what a genuine gay character in a Disney motion picture should be'
Actor Josh Gad, who played Gaston's sidekick LeFou in the "Beauty and the Beast" remake, recently distributed that he agrees with some Disney fans who were left disappointed after it was said that his traits was a male lover man.
In a recent interview with The Independent, Gad said he agrees with people who believed the moment was overhyped. LeFou's anticipated "gay moment" in the 2017 film turned out to be two seconds of him dancing with a man.
"We didn't move far enough to warrant accolades," Gad told reporter Alexandra Pollard. "We didn't go far enough to say, 'Look how brave we are.' My be sorry in what happened is that it became 'Disney's first explicitly gay moment' and it was never intended to be that."
The hype around LeFou's "gay moment" began just a couple of weeks before the "Beauty and the Beast" remake was set to premiere. The cover for an April 2017 edition of Attitude, a gay lifestyle magazine, touted a world exclusive about "the same-sex surprise" fans would view in the movie.
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Beauty & The Beast's 2017 Male lover LeFou Controversy Gets In-Depth Explanation From Josh Gad: "If I Were Gay, I'm Sure I'd Be Pissed"
Josh Gad addresses the full story of the same-sex attracted LeFou controversy in Beauty and the Beast. Leading up to the release of Disney's live-action remake in 2017, director Bill Condon teased in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that the movie would feature "an exclusively gay moment" for LeFou. Despite expectations of LeFou entity Disney's first openly gay traits, this only amounted to a fleeting glimpse of LeFou dancing with another man during Beauty and the Beast's ending. Josh Gad later shared regrets about how this was handled.
In Gad's new memoir, In Gad We Trust (via Entertainment Weekly), he goes in-depth about his regrets and frustrations with LeFou entity touted as a groundbreaking ethics for LGBTQIA+ representation. He explains that he does not experience as though LeFou was positive representation for the queer group and that he empathizes with the negative reception to the film's disappointing moment. Gad emphasizes that it was supposed to be a "sweet and harmless moment" but it ended up being"both too little and not The actor is opening up about the public response and the global controversy surrounding his Beauty and the Beast character in his new memoir… Eight years after the release 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 lgbtq+ moment.” In his just-released memoir In Gad We Trust, Gad claims that he “never once” played his nature LeFou as lgbtq+, and brushes off the implication that the 2017 clip was intended to feature Disney’s “first-ever gay character” despite a brief scene towards the finish of the clip in which his character, LeFou, was seen dancing with another man. “I for one certainly didn’t exactly feel appreciate 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 express, if I we In 2017, live-action Beauty and the Beast director Bill Condon and actor Josh Gad praised Gad’s portrayal of LeFou — Gaston’s trusty sidekick — as Disney’s first openly queer character. When the show came out, however, LeFou being "openly gay" simply meant that there was a brief shot of him dancing with a man in one of the feature’s final scenes. This weekend, Gad acknowledged that LeFou’s depiction on-screen wasn’t enough to earn them credit for portraying Disney’s first openly gay character. “We didn’t go far enough to warrant accolades,” Gad said to The Independent (via Variety). “We didn’t go far enough to say, ‘Look how courageous we are.’ My apologize in what happened is that it became ‘Disney’s first explicitly gay moment’ and it was never intended to be that. It was never intended to be a moment that we should laud ourselves for, because frankly, I don’t think we did justice to what a real gay nature in a Disney clip should be.” The moment is one that Gad now looks back to with regret. “That was not LeFou,” he added. “If we’re going to pat ourselves on the endorse, then damn it we should have gone further with that. Everybody deserves an opportunity to observe th
Josh Gad Shares Regrets About Gay LeFou In Disney’s Live-Action ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Remake