Josh Gad candidly comments on misleading gay controversy surrounding his Beauty and the Beast character LeFou
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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. The 43-year-old actor's character was pals with the Gaston character played by Luke Evans in the motion picture, which also featured Emma Watson, Dan Stevens and Kevin Kline, and was directed by Bill Condon.
![[Gad made clear that amid production of the film, it was not articulated to him that the character's sexuality was going to be a keynote aspect of the movie]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/16/02/94150707-14290487-image-a-83_1736996144593.jpg)
Condon, promoting the film with the outlet Attitude in 2017, said moviegoers would finally get to see 'a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie,' but it turned out to be a brief sequence in which Gad's LeFou was seen dancing with a man. 'I mean, if I were gay, I'm sure I'd be pissed,' Gad said of the public's reaction to the scene in his new book In Gad We Trust, Entertainment Weekly reported after publishing excerpts from the book, which was released Tuesday.
![[Gad's character friendly with the Gaston character played by Luke Evans (L) in the film]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/16/02/94150711-14290487-image-a-85_1736996155404.jpg)
The Hollywood, Florida native said in the book he felt that the character was too peripheral and the scene too brief to live up the director's hype. 'I for one certainly didn't exactly feel like LeFou was who the queer community had been wistfully waiting for,' said Gad, who has been wed to wife Ida Darvish since 2008. '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.'.
