Back in 2018 when Disney announced the cast for it’s Jungle Cruise movie, an adaptation of the famously slow and fairly racist Disneyland ride, the big news was that British actor and comedian Jack Whitehall had been cast as the first major openly gay character in a Disney Movie.
The movie follows an archeologist, played by Emily Blunt, who hires a boat captain played by Dwayne Johnson to take her on a dangerous river cruise through the Amazon to find a legendary tree.
The only glimpses we get of Whitehall’s character are a couple moments where he’s standing in the background, wearing an immaculate white suit and floppy hat.
When the casting news was announced, there was a lot of backlash, seeing as Whitehall is a straight man, and the character was initially reported as being “very camp.”
Disney’s Jungle Cruise is in theaters July 24, 2020.
Via Out.com
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