You probably saw Luca (2021), the Disney/Pixar animated movie about the friendship between the closeted sea monster boy (Jacob Tremblay) and a human boy named Alberto (Jack Dylan Grazer). And you were probably upset when director Enrico Casarosa vehemently denied the possibility of a gay reading of the couple. "They're kids! They're much too young to be gay!"
Got it, Enrico. All boys are born heterosexual, Gay is something that happens in adulthood, after you've tried heterosexual stuff and decided that it is not right for you. Gay is who you invite to your bed,, heterosexual is the Eternal Feminine that draws us to the City of God.
Yeah, I was unhappy, too.
But it wasn't the fault of the actors. I heard that Jack Dylan Grazer and Jason Maybaum (general voices) are gay. Let's see if Luca himself, Jacob Tremblay, is involve din any gay-friendly projects.
He has 43 acting credits on the IMDB, most long before Luca. I've never heard of most of them, but there seem to be some interesting gay subtexts here and there:
Gord's Brother (2015): The human Gord and his monster brother (Jack Irvine, Raphael Alejandro) searach for the legendary City of Monsters. Jacob plays the Young Gord.
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Wonder (2017): "The incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story" of a boy with facial differences who goes to school. How to come up with a title that gives you absolutely no clue to what the movie is about.
There's a girl -- there's always a girl -- but he makes a male friend (Noah Jupe), too.
Good Boys (2019): Three six-grade boys skip school to go on an "epic adventure" involving two of them (Jacob, Brady Noon, center, recent photo) trying to win the Girls of Their Dreams (of course). The third (Keith L. Williams) is a bullying victim who doesn't try to win a girl. Hey, in a raunchy "coming of age" comedy, I'll take any gay hints I can get.
Will Forte plays one of the dads.
Left: As of this writing, Brady Noon is 19. Maybe I'll profile him next.
More Jacob after the break
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