Jack Whitehall says he didn’t know that his character McGregor in “Jungle Cruise” was gay when he originally auditioned for the film. “When I first read the script, there was only a like a couple o…
“When I first read the script, there was only a like a couple of sides,” the British actor told me at the movie’s premiere at Disneyland. “So yeah, there wasn’t any indication of that. It was quite a long casting process.”, inspired by the iconic Disneyland ride of the same name, McGregor comes out to the skipper, Frank, played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. While he doesn’t use the word “gay,” he says he broke off three engagements with women because his “interests happily lay elsewhere.
When we talked before the premiere, Whitehall still hadn’t seen a final cut of the film, but said, “I hope that it’s a scene that audiences enjoy … I certainly felt at the time that I was proud of the work that we’d done.” Meanwhile, Whitehall revealed that his mom helped him get the role after she read Johnson’s lines for his self-tape. “My mother played The Rock,” he said. “It was amazing. She did The Rock’s voice and everything.”
He cracked that she was trying to get hired as one of Johnson’s stand-ins because the film was shot in Hawaii: “Unfortunately, she didn’t get the call, but it worked because I got the part.”Jack Whitehall opens up about playing a gay character in
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