Josh Gadis ready to give his side of the story.
I mean, if I were gay, I’m sure I’d be pissed."
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But the focus did shift onto LeFou’s sexuality, for two reasons.
Josh Gad at the ‘Beauty and the Beast’ premiere in 2017.Credit: Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images
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He’s confused about what he wants… and Josh makes something really subtle and delicious out of it.
And that’s what has its payoff at the end, which I don’t want to give away.
Josh Gad and Luke Evans in ‘Beauty and the Beast’.Laurie Sparham/Walt Disney pictures/everett
But it is a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie."
In fact, if it had, I never would have agreed to the seemingly sweet and innocuous moment.
It was both too little and not enough to be anything more than it was."
Luke Evans in ‘Beauty and the Beast’.Laurie Sparham/Disney
But the second we pointed it out and seemingly congratulated ourselves, we had invited hell and fury."
Beauty and the Beastprompted boycottsacross the United States and wasbanned in several countriesabroad.
The rest of the cast was even looped into anendless commentary cycleas well.
Thats what all the fuss was about?'"
However inflamed the controversy got, it didn’t make a dent inBeauty and the Beast’s box office.
The film grossed upwards of$1.2 billionon a roughly$300 millionbudget.
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