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He’s confused about what he wants… and Josh makes something really subtle and delicious out of it. 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.
It was just the completion of a story that started with LeFou pulling Gaston into a hug and saying, 'Too much?' and Gaston looking around nervously and saying, 'Yeah.'"
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But the second we pointed it out and seemingly congratulated ourselves, we had invited hell and fury.”
After news of the subplot made headlines, and news of the brief shot of LeFou dancing with another man prompted an intense public backlash, Beauty and the Beast was banned in several countries and drew boycotts in the U.S.
Still, the film was a box office smash, raking in a reported $1.2 billion worldwide.
Gad says that Condon, who is gay, “felt awful” about his remarks, and “felt put on the spot… to share his pride for some form of representation in the film” during the interview with Attitude.
This is not the first time Gad has spoken about the intense backlash that his character and Beauty and the Beast received.
I love the fact that there were countries — I think Russia was one of them — that wouldn’t show the movie because of that. Still, he holds the belief that some of these creative adjustments are necessary: "[I]f you’re true to the medium you’re working in, and you want to tell this story in that way, you have to throw everything up in the air and, in a way, start over," he said.
Beauty and the Beast is now streaming on Disney+.
- Release Date
- March 17, 2017
- Runtime
- 129 minutes
- Director
- Bill Condon
- Writers
- Evan Spiliotopoulos, Stephen Chbosky, Linda Woolverton, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
- Producers
- David Hoberman
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"It was never intended that way. [In the animated film,] LeFou is a punching bag, he’s not a character, so you turn them into people," Condon said. If LeFou was going to be gay, the movie should have done far more to explore this and him being gay should not have been teased in the first place. "In Dreamgirls, it was a balance.
But it is a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie.”
Gad felt that “the quote in and of itself was delightful, beautiful, and perfect… but for those three fateful words: ‘EXCLUSIVELY GAY MOMENT.'”
The actor makes it clear throughout his discussion of the Beauty and the Beast debacle that he would have been “delighted” to play a gay LeFou.
The show was later made available on both of the Disney-owned streaming platforms. Despite expectations of LeFou being Disney's first openly gay character, this only amounted to a fleeting glimpse of LeFou dancing with another man during Beauty and the Beast's ending. "It was always meant to be a grace note, but suddenly it sounded as if I was pretending to be breaking barriers, and it wasn't."
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Despite his insistence that LeFou's LGBT+ identity wasn't meant to break any barriers, Condon did admit that he 'loved' some of the backlash that it generated, as well as Disney's response.
And it was there because Howard Ashman wrote the original score, and there was a gay sensibility going on there. The Beauty and the Beast controversy is also a reminder of how important queer representation is and that a blink-and-you-miss-it moment does not equate to authentic representation.
Source: In Gad We Trust (via EW), THR
Condon also touched on how it's impossible to please everyone, noting that people "condemn" him for cutting a song from Dreamgirls.
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