Keith Richards and Paul McCartney are all good.
01.03.2022 - 01:55 / variety.com
Zack Sharf Josh Gad recently told The Independent that he has some regrets over how Disney’s 2017 live action “Beauty and the Beast” remake handled making his character 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 character.
Condon said Gad’s LeFou had “an exclusively gay moment” in the movie, 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 release. “We didn’t go 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 moment that we should laud ourselves for, because frankly, I don’t think we did justice to what a real gay character in a Disney film should be.” Once the film opened in theaters, Condon and Gad were widely criticized for patting themselves on the back when the movie contained virtually no gay moment whatsoever. Gad told USA Today at the film’s 2017 premiere that while the script did not confirm LeFou is gay, he was “honored” to have the chance to deepen the character in the live-action version.“What was most important to me was taking a character that is wonderful and so iconic, but is defined by cartoon conceits in the (original) movie…and expanding on that, giving him dimension, making him human,” Gad said at the time.
Keith Richards and Paul McCartney are all good.
Joe Garratt shot to fame on Love Island, having entered the villa in 2019 in the hope of finding love.The 24 year old's stint in the villa was short, but he did form a romantic connection with fellow Islander Lucie Donlan before he was dramatically dumped from the show. He and Lucie, 24, didn't last, and Joe has since gone on to enjoy romances with American model Desiree Schlotz and TOWIE star Frankie Sims. The reality TV star is now rumoured to be growing close to former EastEnders actress Maisie Smith, 20, after crossing paths a few weeks ago.
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Josh Hartnett is officially married! The Hollywood star confirmed that he secretly married his longtime girlfriend Tamsin Egerton in November 2021.The happy couple organized a private ceremony at The Old Marylebone Town Hall in London, and while no photos of the event have been released, it was reported that the venue seats only 12 people, so it seems the pair invited their closest friends and family members.A friend of the couple revealed some details about the ceremony, declaring that Josh and Tamsin are “as smitten as ever and wanted to make it official in a low-key affair,” describing it as “a classy ceremony with only a handful of close family and friends.”The source also said that the couple “are really happy living a low-key life away from showbiz parties and red carpets,” and they are “happy to fly under the radar.”The American actor and the British actress are parents to three children, as they previously announced in January 2021, that they recently expanded their family and welcomed their third child.“The thing I am most proud of is that I’m a father of three and I have a good relationship with my partner and a great family life,” Hartnett said in a recent interview with Mr.
EXCLUSIVE: Guy Burnet (Counterpart) and Danny Deferrari (Shiva Baby) are the latest additions to the cast of Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer for Universal.
Richard Linklater’s latest film “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood” poses the question: what if the first person to walk on the moon wasn’t Neil Armstrong but was actually a kid from Houston leading a mission called Apollo 10 1/2 in secret because NASA accidentally built the space shuttle too small? That amusing fantasy and twist on American history though is just the set up for Linklater’s latest and arguably most personal film, which just released its first trailer Monday. It’s one in which he explores the reality of what life was like in Houston, Texas in 1969 just before the moon landing, all seen through the eyes of a kid who lived right next door to all of it.
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Charlamagne tha God, Nicole Brown, Reinaldo Marcus Green, and Danielle Lawson were among the talented creatives who attended the annual African American Film Critics Association Awards on Wednesday night, honoring some of Hollywood’s biggest and brightest.
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