Gay moment in Beauty and the Beast overblown: Director
Los Angeles March 5 (IANS) Bill Condon director of Beauty and the Beast says too much has been made over the film s exclusively gay moment.
The director first announced Josh Gad s LeFou would come out of the closet in a recent issue of Attitude magazine giving Disney its first openly gay character. At the time he referred to it as an exclusively gay moment but has since downplayed his past remarks during an interview with ScreenCrush reports ew.com.
Oh God. Can I just tell you? It s all been overblown. Because it s just this it s part of just what we had fun with he said.
You saw the movie yeah? You know what I mean. I feel like the kind of thing has been I wish it were -- I love the way it plays pure when people don t know and it comes as a nice surprise.
Wishing to not make a big deal of it he asked Why is it a big deal?
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