Much ado was made over the casting of Jack Whitehall in what’s being called Disney’s “first-ever openly gay character.”
Call us crazy, but we have a strong feeling that when the film is actually released, the gay-themed screen time will score somewhere between nonexistent and minimal.
Still, there’s going to be a lot of attention to how Whitehall, who is straight, will play the role, which is reportedly described as “hugely effete, very camp and very funny.”
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The first look at Whitehall’s role comes via his Jungle Cruise costar Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s Instagram feed.
“On set of our DISNEY’S JUNGLE CRUISE and I made friends with a big ‘ol hungry Anaconda,” Johnson wrote, accompanied by a shot of himself and Whitehall handling an enormous snake.
He continued: “While my brave co-star and good buddy @jackwhitehall did his best to smile thru his fear of snakes. Good times with the animals of the Amazon. Next, me and Jack will swim with the piranhas.. completely against his will. The adventure of the lifetime.”
rray63
Am I the only one that things this man is in the closet? i’d give decent odds that by the time the movie comes out he will as well. Though my gaydar sucks, so I could be wrong! lol
KelvinC
He’s British, not gay.
Xzamilloh
No… a lot of these young millennial actors give off gay vibes because they just don’t care about that machismo crap closet cases from a generation ago still carry around.
Maybe it’s the creeping SJW in me, but I’m starting to see the the so-called “toxic masculinity” in that a lot of stupid people, women and men both, think men are supposed to be a certain way or they’re a bunch of snowflakey flowery poofies.
nitejonboy
A. Why must every frigging action movie have the rock in it ? and B. Why must every straight actor play a gay role as an effete flaming queen ? There are some butch gays too ? Hell I’d rather the Rock play the gay character, that’d teach em.