Vikings are particularly well known for their gayness – although there were undoubtedly a fair few who preferred the same sex – but the world of Vikings is getting a bit gayer this summer, as How To Train Your Dragon 2 will include an out gay character.
It’s someone we’ve met before, as Gobber The Belch, the man who teaches youngsters how to train dragons, is the one who’s coming out.
Apparently it wasn’t in the original script, but Craig Ferguson added a subtle coming out moment as an ad lib. The scene in question sees Gobber watching a husband and wife argue, before saying “This is why I never got married”. He then adds that there’s one more reason.
While Gobber doesn’t say exactly what that reason is, director Dean DeBlois isn’t leaving us in any doubt. He tells E!, “When we were recording Craig Ferguson, I had written the line, ‘This is why I never got married,” and he, as he often does, added it as an ad lib and he said, ‘Yup, Gobber is coming out of the closet. I think that’s a really fun [and] daring move to put in. I love the idea that Gobber is Berk’s resident gay.”
He’s not the first out gay character in a mainstream animated movie, as one of the characters in ParaNorman reveals towards the end that he has a boyfriend, but it’s still relatively rare.
You’ll be able to see for yourself when the film hits cinemas (June 13th in the US and July 3th in the UK).
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