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Actor Vince Vaughn said he’s “glad” a controversial “gay” joke in his recent comedy isn’t being scrapped.
"I'm glad to hear it's staying the movie," Vaughn said Wednesday, referring to the now notorious scene in “The Dilemma” where Vaughn’s character Ronny Valentine riffs on why “electric cars are gay.”
In the film, Valentine describes the car as lacking rock n' roll cool, in a “my-parents-are-chaperoning-the-dance-gay” way.
Universal yanked the scene from “Dilemma” trailers last month in the wake of a rash of teen suicides and amid outcry from CNN’s Anderson Cooper and the gay-rights group GLAAD.
On “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” Cooper had cautioned against using the word “gay” as a punchline, and warned that “words perform have power and they’re used like weapons.”
But “Dilemma” director Ron Howardargued last week that Valentine's revolting personality was central to his character and nixing the scene from the movie in the deal with of controversy would “endanger comedy as both business and a provoker of thought.”
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Vince Vaughn: Why I&#;m &#;Glad&#; We Kept the &#;Gay&#; Joke in Film
As reported over the weekend, a controversial "gay" joke will continue in The Dilemma when it hits theaters Jan. 14 — and celestial body Vince Vaughn thinks that's the right thing to do.
In the talked-about scene, which was excised from the trailer after a common outcry, Vaughn, 40, quips, "electric cars…are gay."
"I'm glad to hear it's staying the movie," Vaughn said in a Wednesday radio interview for The Bert Show.
The star claimed that the quip "wasn't a disparaging term…We clarified within the joke [that it was] not 'homosexual-gay' but, you know, your parents are chaperoning a dance."
The actor said that awkward conversations are "the point" of doing comedy. "We're not trying to hurt anyone's feelings," he insisted. "If there's tensions there, ultimately, it brings us together, it makes us more comfortable."
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Is Vince Vaughn ‘gay’ joke in The Dilemma disguised anti-gay bigotry?
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, without naming names but apparently referring to Vince Vaughn’s upcoming comedy The Dilemma, complained about the negative use of the word “gay” while discussing anti-gay bullying with Ellen DeGeneres on her show.
“There was a preview of a movie, and in it, the actor said, ‘That’s so gay,’” Cooper told DeGeneres, “and I was shocked that not only that they position it in the movie, but that they put that in the preview. They thought that it was OK to set that in a preview for the movie to get people to go and see it.”
The Dilemma trailer begins with Vaughn’s character telling a group of suits, among them, of all people, Queen Latifah: “Ladies and gentleman, electric cars [pause] are gay.”
The executives, who didn’t understand cars had sex with one another, look confused.
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Vince Vaughn defends film's "gay" joke
"Electric cars are gay. I mean, not homosexual gay, but my parents-are-chaperoning-the-dance gay."
Upset by the line and how the word 'gay' is used, CNN's Anderson Cooper went on The Ellen Degeneres Show and said, "We've got to do something to build those words unacceptable generate those words are hurting kids. When you're a kid, it can adjust the way you view yourself and the way you think about yourself, and the worth that you give to yourself."
This prompted GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) to urge its supporters to contact Universal and demand that the "offensive comment" be removed from promotion. Universal has complied with the trailer, and now there is a question as to whether or not the line will endure in the film at all.
Vaughn has released a statement saying that he hopes that the line stays in the film. "Let me add my voice of support to the people outraged by the bullying and persecution of people for their differences, whatever those differences may be. Comedy and joking about our differences breaks ten