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Beauty & The Beast's 2017 Gay 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 gay 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 highlight "an exclusively gay moment" for LeFou. Despite expectations of LeFou being Disney's first openly gay personality, 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 being touted as a groundbreaking character for LGBTQIA+ representation. He explains that he does not feel as though LeFou was positive representation for the queer community 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 inoffensive moment" but it ended up being
Josh Gad says he doesn't think 'Beauty and the Beast' did 'justice to what a real same-sex attracted 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 male lover 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 travel far enough to tell, '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 queer lifestyle magazine, touted a world exclusive about "the same-sex surprise" fans would see in the movie.
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Josh Gad Shares Regret Over Gay LeFou in ‘Beauty and the Beast’: ‘We Didn’t Go Far Enough’
Josh Gad recently told The Independent that he has some regrets over how Disney‘s 2017 live move “Beauty and the Beast” remake handled making his personality a gay man.
Gad starred in the film as LeFou, the long-suffering sidekick to Gaston (played by Luke Evans in the film). The movie’s director, Bill Condon, announced in USA Today ahead of the film’s release that his “Beauty and the Beast” would introduce Disney’s first openly gay traits. Condon said Gad’s LeFou had “an exclusively gay moment” in the feature, but all that turned out to be was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shot of LeFou dancing with a man.
“We didn’t go far enough to warrant accolades,” Gad said nearly five years after the film’s free. “We didn’t travel far enough to say, ‘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. It was never intended to be a mo
'Beauty and the Beast's 'gay moment' may have been much ado about nothing
Spoiler alert! The following contains spoilers for the 2017 remake of Beauty and the Beast.
So that was it, huh?
That's what many moviegoers are saying after seeing Disney's latest live-action remake, Beauty and the Beast. They're not talking about the overall film, which is getting great reviews (three out of four stars from USA TODAY) and breaking box office records with a $170 million debut, the highest ever for March and the seventh-highest of all time.
The displeased reaction has been to the so-called "exclusively queer moment" in the movie, which has caused international controversy since director Bill Condon first mentioned it in an interview with Attitude magazine.
In the interview, Condon said the character LeFou (Josh Gad) would be portrayed as homosexual. This caused the film to get shelved in Kuwait and Malaysia, to be given a stricter rating in Russian theaters and to be boycotted by one Alabama drive-in.
Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.So what exactly caused all this controversy?
The "gay moment" that Condon was referring to is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot
Josh Gad Shares Regrets About Gay LeFou In Disney’s Live-Action ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Remake
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 ethics LeFou as male lover, and brushes off the implication that the 2017 production was intended to feature Disney’s “first-ever gay character” despite a brief scene towards the cease of the movie in which his character, LeFou, was seen dancing with another man.
“I for one certainly didn’t exactly feel favor LeFou was who the queer people 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 guy for half a second. I express, if I we