{"id":972258,"date":"2021-11-05T13:14:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T17:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=972258"},"modified":"2021-11-05T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T17:14:13","slug":"angelina-jolie-after-saudi-arabia-qatar-ban-eternals-anger-over-gay-roles-is-ignorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/angelina-jolie-after-saudi-arabia-qatar-ban-eternals-anger-over-gay-roles-is-ignorant\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Jolie After Saudi Arabia, Qatar Ban \u2018Eternals\u2019: Anger over Gay Roles Is \u2018Ignorant\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fangelina-jolie-after-saudi-arabia-qatar-ban-eternals-anger-over-gay-roles-is-ignorant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=972258&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Actress&nbsp;Angelina Jolie says she is \u201cproud\u201d that Marvel refused to cut <em>Eternals<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2020\/02\/17\/marvel-the-eternals-will-feature-first-man-on-man-gay-kiss\/\">scenes<\/a> featuring an openly gay superhero for Middle Eastern countries that censor LGBTQ content, and said that anyone who doesn\u2019t \u201cappreciate\u201d gay content in movies is \u201cignorant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sad for [those audiences]. And I\u2019m proud of Marvel for refusing to cut those scenes out,\u201d the actress&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/entertainment\/movies\/new-movies\/angelina-jolie-reacts-to-eternals-ban-over-gay-scenes\/news-story\/f994167f8b88f500f53af40ec551ae4d\">told<\/a>&nbsp;Australian website news.com.au.&nbsp;\u201cI still don\u2019t understand how we live in a world today where there\u2019s still [people who] would not see the family Phastos has and the beauty of that relationship and that love.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The film, which features a&nbsp;same-sex relationship and a gay kiss, has reportedly been pulled from release&nbsp;in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait as a result of Marvel refusing to delete the gay scenes.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Eternals<\/em>, Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) is showcased as Marvel\u2019s first gay character with a major role. He\u2019s shown in a same-sex marriage with a character played by actor Haaz Sleiman. There is a scene in which the two share a kiss, and the couple also has a son together.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18623234\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1169965262-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18623234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1169965262-1-scaled.jpg\" alt width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Brian Tyree Henry attends Go Behind The Scenes with Walt Disney Studios during D23 Expo 2019 at Anaheim Convention Center on August 24, 2019 in Anaheim, California. (Frazer Harrison\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18623226\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1347407613-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18623226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1347407613-1-scaled.jpg\" alt width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Haaz Sleiman arrives at the Premiere of Marvel Studios\u2019 Eternals on October 18, 2021 in Hollywood, California. (Jesse Grant\/Getty Images for Disney)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHow anybody is angry about it, threatened by it, doesn\u2019t approve or appreciate it is ignorant,\u201d Jolie lamented.<\/p>\n<p>Homosexuality is illegal in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not unusual for Hollywood studios to make cuts to movies for release in countries with different censorship rules,\u201d reports news.com.au. \u201c<em>Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em> famously removed references to Freddie Mercury\u2019s sexuality to appease censors in China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marvel, however, does not appear to be budging. Moreover, this hasn\u2019t been the first time a film was banned in Middle Eastern countries over its LGBTQ content.<\/p>\n<p>Last year,&nbsp;the Pixar film <em>Onward<\/em> was banned in Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia over one line referencing a lesbian relationship, notes <em>the Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The release of <em>Eternals<\/em>, however, has reportedly not been impacted in the United Arab Emirates, where it is still expected to hit cinemas next week.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eternals&nbsp;<\/em>has opened wide in the U.S. and hauled in&nbsp;$9.5 million at the domestic box office on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana Mastrangelo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress\u00a0Angelina Jolie says she is \u201cproud\u201d that Marvel refused to cut Eternals scenes featuring an openly gay superhero for Middle Eastern countries that censor LGBTQ content, and said that anyone &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}