Our most heartfelt condolences to Mr. Foxx and his family.
In 2017, director Bill Condon contributed Beauty and the Beast to the ongoing "live action remakes of beloved Disney classics" film pantheon happening right now. The film, starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens as its title characters, was a smash box-office hit, helping give the studio confidence to produce both Aladdin and The Lion King adaptations in 2019. But one moment, construed and executed under the most positive of intentions, wound up generating a whole bunch of very, very, very stupid controversy. And Josh Gad, who played the offending character LeFou in the film, got into exactly what happened …