6) McGregor, Jungle Cruise
Given that we once again gave Jack Whitehall’s character the ballyhooed “First Gay!!!” press round earlier this year in spite of it releasing after all these other attempts (thanks, global pandemic!) Disney should probably still be embarrassed a little bit, at least. That and the fact it took three trailers for him to get a line of dialogue, but Whitehall’s McGregor at least getting a scene that humanized his relationship with his sister because of the fact she didn’t abandon him for being queer like the rest of his family—even if the scene did dance around saying the word “gay”—was actually pretty solid, if fleeting. Disney should probably be more embarrassed by the colonialist overtones his white suit and Panama hat convey in the context of everything else Jungle Cruise has got going on, aesthetically. Hooray, queer people can be imperialists too!
