Report: Jack Whitehall to play gay character in Disney's Jungle Cruise movie

August 12th, 2018, 05:03 pm

Report: Jack Whitehall to play gay character in Disney's Jungle Cruise movie

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— The Sun (@TheSun) August 12, 2018

The Sun has reported that comedian Jack Whitehall "is playing a gay man - one who is hugely effete, very camp and very funny" in Disney's upcoming Jungle Cruise film. "This latest script, set at a time when it wasn’t socially acceptable to be gay, is another significant turning point."

The movie will be based on the Disney attraction of the same name. "Frank (Dwayne Johnson), a boat captain, takes a sister (Emily Blunt) and her brother (Whitehall) on a mission into a jungle to find a tree believed to possess healing powers. All the while, the trio must fight against dangerous wild animals and a competing German expedition."

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Tagged: british celebrities, disney, dwayne johnson / the rock, emily blunt, lgbtq film / media

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...I’m not sure I love the sound of the plot. Or this gay character.

Same. Was hoping it'd be better. They're just chasing a treasure? None of the Disney ride movies turn out well? Pirates one was fine. INKnow they made money but still..

i'd rather have a new national treasure movie than the plot of this movie

Is there any movie The Rock is not in?

a successful one

Jumanji tho.

Moana

FF 8

Nah girl, they may be shitty, but they make money.

lmao

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bicth Expand

good ones

one who is hugely effete, very camp and very funny

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what a joke.

Who is in your icon? What is this a movie or show?

howard charles in the 2013 movie "&me". this scene. (don't bother with the rest of it lol it's super homophobic actually)

he was kinda annoying every time i've seen him on the graham norton show

He's very annoying. He'll also do literally anything to be famous, so this role is no surprise.

Jack Whitehall playing a camp gay man is the last thing the LGBTQ2 community and let's face it humanity needs. I hope twitter takes down this clusterfuck.

LGBTQ2? When did we include numbers? i've barely been keeping track of the letters as it is.

Your comment comes off disrespectful and dismissive so I'm not gonna bother telling you what the 2 stands for.

Two-spirit, used by some indigenous North Americans. Though the wiki makes it sound it should not be used like this?

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Stop erasing Queen Elizabeth II's queer identity, gawd.

On a serious note, I believe actual Two-Spirit people have said their identity has little in common with LGBT identities so the people who are adding it to the acronym aren't doing so with the blessing of the actual people themselves. Much like the I, I think. Intersex people have also said they don't want to be classified as inherently LGBT.

Not that I'm getting sick of people treating the community like the grade school birthday party they didn't get invited to or anything.

We've been through enough, this is too much.

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also lol @ the fact that it's just "a jungle", not a specific one. calling it now there will be questionable portrayal of native people

Well let’s not forget the Jungle Cruise ride still has outdated and questionable animatronics of native peoples.

so he'll be playing himself.

This movie is going to be a complete mess.

so we'll know he's gay based on his effeminate mannerisms (played for laughs!) and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it look at another character?

yeah okay

oh for petes sake 🙄

I doubt this will get the same laughs as Jack Black in Jumanji

Oh man, he was definitely the best thing about that movie.

Things I never knew I needed.

the only good thing tbh. on rewatch, everything else about the movie is so pedestrian and lackluster, but omfg jack black fucking KILLS it.

I loved him in this. He was so spot-on and played a teen girl with so much nuance?? Who knew

Emily Blunt deserves better (like another Edge of Tomorrow movie)!!!!!!!!!!!

PREACH

or 'A Quiet-er Place'.

Or the role of Captain Marvel.

I'm still bitter she wasn't Black Widow. I doubt she will sign up for another comic character soon

I'm excited to see Mary Poppins because of her :) It was my fave movie as a kid and when they asked Emily I thought that now there's a chance it won't be a mess :D

I just watched this scene and nearly died! What's the context? Is it a Freaky Friday type thing?

... and this movie is one the very few listed on the imdb pages of the duo that's supposed to create the LOTR tv show for amazon?

tbf "this latest script" could mean there's been re-writes they're not personally responsible for ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Jack Whitehall "is playing a gay man - one who is hugely effete, 'very camp and very funny' "

lmao that gif will never not be funny

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Report: Jack Whitehall to play gay character in Disney's Jungle Cruise movie

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