Vince Vaughn 'glad' Ron Howard is keeping gay joke in 'The Dilemma'
Wed. November 3, 2010 10:52 PM by GoPride.com News Staff
Hollywood -
Actor Vince Vaughn said he's glad that director Ron Howard is keeping a gay joke in the new comedy "The Dilemma."
The movie is about a straight man who discovers his best friend's wife is cheating on him.
In the scene in question, Vaughn's character is trying to explain what's wrong with electric cars, and he says they are "gay... not homosexual gay, but, you know, my-parents-are-chaperoning-the-dance gay."
The joke was pulled from the trailer for the movie last month, in the midst of several highly-publicized gay suicides.
Vaughn now says that comedy is supposed to be about things that are awkward to say or think.
"We're not trying to hurt anyone's feelings," he told Us Magazine. "If there's tensions there, ultimately, it brings us together, it makes us more comfortable."
Last week, Howard explained that the joke shows that Vaughn's character is constantly putting his foot in his mouth.
"[Vaughn's character] has a mouth that sometimes gets him into trouble and he definitely flirts with the line of what's okay to say. He tries to do what's right but sometimes falls short. Who can't relate to that?" Howard wrote in a blog for the L.A. Times. ""We never expected [the joke] to represent our intentions or the point of view of the movie or those of us who made it."
The movie is about a straight man who discovers his best friend's wife is cheating on him.
In the scene in question, Vaughn's character is trying to explain what's wrong with electric cars, and he says they are "gay... not homosexual gay, but, you know, my-parents-are-chaperoning-the-dance gay."
The joke was pulled from the trailer for the movie last month, in the midst of several highly-publicized gay suicides.
Vaughn now says that comedy is supposed to be about things that are awkward to say or think.
"We're not trying to hurt anyone's feelings," he told Us Magazine. "If there's tensions there, ultimately, it brings us together, it makes us more comfortable."
Last week, Howard explained that the joke shows that Vaughn's character is constantly putting his foot in his mouth.
"[Vaughn's character] has a mouth that sometimes gets him into trouble and he definitely flirts with the line of what's okay to say. He tries to do what's right but sometimes falls short. Who can't relate to that?" Howard wrote in a blog for the L.A. Times. ""We never expected [the joke] to represent our intentions or the point of view of the movie or those of us who made it."