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Beauty and the Beast debuted this past weekend to wide acclaim and a pretty impressive box office performance. While many fans of the original animated movie have their own list of things they wish were included in the adaptation, one of the film’s stars wished for a reference to a more recent Disney output.
Josh Gad, who plays Le Fou in the film, revealed to People Magazine that the film almost included a reference to Gad’s previous role in Frozen. With Gad voicing the role of the singing snowman Olaf in the 2013 animated film, the actor worked out a way to joke about that in Beauty and the Beast.
“The Easter egg I fought for [director] Bill Condon to put in but we never did, there’s a moment in the original where a bunch of snow falls on LeFou and he becomes a snowman and I thought, this could kill. It’s a little meta but it could be great.”
Ultimately, Condon decided against the idea, as well as another exchange in the film’s climax that Gad – and his costar Luke Evans – were proud of.
“What I miss, which we shot and is not in the film, is you having a fight with the toilet.” Evans said to Gad in the interview. “It didn’t make the final cut.”
Gad mentioned that said toilet was actually voiced by Stephen Merchant, who has recently caught much of the nerd world’s eye after playing Caliban in Logan.
While it sounds like Gad’s Frozen reference never ended up being film, let’s hope that the deleted scene with Merchant finds its way to the film’s home release.
Beauty and the Beast is the fantastic journey of Belle, a bright, beautiful and independent young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle’s enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the Beast’s hideous exterior and realize the kind heart and soul of the true Prince within.
Beauty and the Beast stars Emma Watson as Belle; Dan Stevens as the Beast; Luke Evans as Gaston, the handsome, but shallow villager who woos Belle; Oscar winner Kevin Kline as Maurice, Belle’s eccentric, but lovable father; Josh Gad as Lefou, Gaston’s long-suffering aide-de-camp; Golden Globe nominee Ewan McGregor as Lumiere, the candelabra; Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci as Maestro Cadenza, the harpsichord; Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Plumette, the feather duster; six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald as Madame Garderobe, the wardrobe; Oscar nominee Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, the mantel clock; and two-time Academy Award winner Emma Thompson as the teapot, Mrs. Potts.
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