Angelina Jolie is speaking out against countries banning her Marvel Cinematic Universe tentpole “Eternals” because it includes the franchise’s first openly gay superhero (and a gay kiss to go along with it).
News broke the day before the “Eternals” U.S.
opening that Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar had banned the film reportedly due to its gay content.
Homosexuality is still illegal across the Gulf.
Even just a one-line reference to a lesbian relationship got Pixar’s “Onward” banned from Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia last year.“I’m sad for [those audiences].
And I’m proud of Marvel for refusing to cut those scenes out,” Jolie told Australia’s News.com about the ban.
“I still don’t understand how we live in a world today where there’s still [people who] would not see the family Phastos has and the beauty of that relationship and that love.
How anybody is angry about it,
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