Hopefully, the series will explore the interesting dynamic between the two friends: LeFou is Disney’s first openly gay character, while Gaston is a heterosexual misogynist.

Talking about their relationship after the release of the film, director Bill Condon told Attitude magazine: “LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston. He’s confused about what he wants. It’s somebody who’s just realising that he has these feelings. And Josh makes something really subtle and delicious out of it. And that’s what has its payoff at the end, which I don’t want to give away. But it is a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie.”

(Spoiler alert: LeFou dances with a man at the castle).

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