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Variety reports:

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 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.”

In the Jaume Collet-Serra-directed film, inspired by the iconic Disneyland ride of the same name, McGregor comes out to the skipper, Frank, played by Dwayne Johnson. While he doesn’t use the word “gay,” he says he broke off three engagements with women because his “interests happily lay elsewhere.” Frank then raises a drink to toast “elsewhere.”

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Jack Whitehall opens up about playing a gay character in #JungleCruise, teasing a “significant scene in the movie” that was “thought about and talked about a lot” behind the scenes. pic.twitter.com/AL8RjJScsL

— Variety (@Variety) July 26, 2021