Gay beauty and the beast
Josh Gad says he doesn't think 'Beauty and the Beast' did 'justice to what a real lgbtq+ character in a Disney film should be'
Actor Josh Gad, who played Gaston's sidekick LeFou in the "Beauty and the Beast" remake, recently shared that he agrees with some Disney fans who were left disappointed after it was said that his character was a same-sex attracted man.
In a new 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 go far enough to warrant accolades," Gad told reporter Alexandra Pollard. "We didn't depart far enough to speak, 'Look how brave we are.' My regret 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 same-sex attracted lifestyle magazine, touted a world exclusive about "the same-sex surprise" fans would see in the movie.
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An Exclusively Gay Breakdown of Beauty and the Beast’s Would-Be Queer Moment
We convened two Slate writers to dissect Beauty and the Beast’s ballyhooed “exclusively gay” moment and the ensuing fallout. Their conversation follows.
Jeffrey Bloomer: Sorry, David, but I need to fasten you in my castle to discuss a matter that Bill Condon, Josh Gad, and especially Disney wish we would just forget: the “exclusively gay” moment in the unused Beauty and the Beast. The one where LeFou, the bumbling sidekick to beloved villain Gaston, becomes the supposed first same-sex attracted character in a Disney movie. Be my guest?
David Canfield: I suspect that Condon et al. would rather we talk about the film’s undercurrent of bestiality at this signal. But certainly!
Bloomer: A several weeks ago, Condon made presumably inadvertent headlines around the world by suggesting to Attitude, a British gay magazine, that LeFou would be in adoration with Gaston in the new movie. And not in a coded way: LeFou would actually be gay. This was a break from Disney tradition, which is to be as gay as workable without acknowledging it. Cue ire from Alabama drive-ins and Malaysian censors.
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Beauty and the Beast Was an LGBT+ Story Distant Before LeFou
There was a great deal of controversy six years ago when Disney announced that the 2017 live-action remake motion picture of Beauty and the Beast would feature the "first openly gay moment" in any Disney production. Bigots protested, but so did the LGBTQ+ group when the film was released and the moment was only a short flirtation involving the comedic-relief character LeFou. However, much of the controversy missed the LGBT+ messages of the original 1991 highlight. Composed with intent by Howard Ashman, the movie was an intentional reflection on the LGBT+ exposure during the AIDS crisis, transforming the tale as old as time for the 1990s.
While the authentic 1740 fable can be read as an allegory for the woman's exposure at the time, the Disney film invoked the feelings of the LGBT experience in 1991. Credited in a piece from Observer as an architect behind the Disney Renaissance in the 1990s, (also the composer of Little Mermaidand Aladdin), Ashman was a big part of how Disney got help on its feet at the time and fix many of the conventions of the Disney musical still known today. Throughout much of Beauty and t The actor is opening up about the general response and the global controversy surrounding his Beauty and the Beast traits in his new memoir… Eight years after the unleash 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 homosexual, and brushes off the implication that the 2017 film was intended to feature Disney’s “first-ever same-sex attracted character” despite a terse scene towards the close of the film in which his character, LeFou, was seen dancing with another man. “I for one certainly didn’t exactly experience like LeFou was who the queer community had been wistfully waiting for,” Gad writes. “I can’t quite imagine a Event 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 Shares Regrets About Gay LeFou In Disney’s Live-Action ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Remake