Is josh gad gay

A scene from the reboot in which Gad's character briefly dances with another man ignited controversy upon the film's release. Josh Gad is ready to give his side of the story. In his new memoir, In Gad We Trust , the Frozen actor opens up about the challenging period following the release of the Beauty and the Beast reboot. A brief shot of Gad's character LeFou dancing with another man prompted an intense public backlash, but Gad claims he "never once" played the faithful servant to the arrogant Gaston Luke Evans as gay, and that the "sweet and innocuous moment" was taken wildly out of context.

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Leading up to the release of Disney's live-action remake in , director Bill Condon teased in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that the movie would feature "an exclusively gay moment" for LeFou. 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. Josh Gad later shared regrets about how this was handled. He explains that he does not feel as though LeFou was positive representation for the queer community and that he empathizes with the negative reception to the film's disappointing moment.

It has a handful when it comes to entertainment. Besides being an actor and voice actor, he is also a writer, comedian and singer. Born as Joshua Ilan Gad in Hollywood, Florida on February 23, , he said he believed in spiritualism, not religion. He graduated in Dramatic Arts in