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Disney sails into new LGBT waters with 'Jungle Cruise' film - Yahoo News
Jul 29, 2021 1 min, 43 secs

"Jungle Cruise," Disney's new nostalgia-soaked adventure film based on a 1950s theme park ride, has an unexpectedly modern twist -- one of its main characters comes out as gay.

"I felt that the scene was really exactly what it was, which was two men talking about what they loved, and who they loved," Johnson -- the world's top-paid movie star -- told a press conference this week.

But the historic "Star Wars" lip-lock was also condemned by LGBT rights advocates as tokenistic -- as was a brief scene in Marvel's record-grossing "Avengers: Endgame" in which an openly gay man participates in a support group.

"It was a scene that we really wanted to get right," said Whitehall, a British comedian-turned-actor, who is straight.

Expanding on the theme at Sunday's world premiere in California, Whitehall told Variety he thought the scene was "significant" and "one that we certainly thought about and talked about a lot.".

"I hope that it's a scene that audiences enjoy and I certainly felt at the time that I was proud of the work that we'd done," he said, adding that he hoped it would be a positive for LGBT children watching.

In another example of Disney changing with the times, the theme park rides in California and Florida were recently altered to remove offensive depictions of indigenous people who waved spears and traded shrunken heads.

Olympic Judo competitor Saeid Mollaei shouted out Israel after winning the silver medal in the men’s 81kg Judo event, a nod to his difficult past and the obstacles he overcame to even be able to compete in this year’s Tokyo Olympics.

“Thank you to Israel for all the good energy -– this medal is dedicated to you as well and I hope Israeli is happy with this victory, todah,” Mollaei told Israeli news outlet Channel 5 Sports after winning the silver medal

After winning silver in judo, he dedicated his medal to Israel

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