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Josh Gad candidly comments on misleading gay controversy surrounding his Beauty and the Beast character LeFou


The 43-year-old actor's character was pals with the Gaston character played by Luke Evans in the motion picture.

Josh Gad opened up about a controversy surrounding sexuality that hovered over his performance as LeFou in the 2017 live-action Disney film Beauty and the Beast. 'I can't quite imagine a Pride celebration in honor of the "cinematic watershed moment" involving a quasi-villainous Disney sidekick dancing with a man for half a second.' The collaborators 'ultimately landed on the side of LeFou was truly in awe of Gaston, and that was not driven by any sexual desire whatsoever but rather a deep-seated love, appreciation, and belief in this person he had served alongside in battle for many years,' Gad said in the book.

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