The High School Musical universe has showed what fanatics knew all alongside — Ryan Evans is gay.
Disney+ shared the first few minutes of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series season 4 on Tuesday, July 25, which featured a glimpse at the fictional filming of High School Musical 4. In the display, Lucas Grabeel, Kaycee Stroh, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Alyson Reed and Bart Johnson play themselves whilst reprising their roles from the hit Disney franchise for a reunion movie.
In the clip, Grabeel’s Ryan stocks a kiss along with his husband — Scott Hoying, who brings the unnamed newcomer to existence as he helps Ryan’s determination to go back to his roots at East High School.
Ryan’s sexuality used to be one of High School Musical‘s greatest mysteries since the original motion pictures aired from 2006 to 2008. In High School Musical 3, Ryan apparently sparked a romance with fellow student Kelsi Nielsen (Olesya Rulin) as they attended the promenade in combination. Fans, however, wondered whether or not Ryan in reality had an interest in Chad Danforth (Bleu) after they swapped outfits in the second film following their “I Don’t Dance” efficiency.
High School Musical director Kenny Ortega later revealed that he believes Ryan is gay.
“I put numerous who I am into my work. I feel, yeah, that it’s simply there, and whether it’s screaming at you, or whether it’s simply form of quietly there, it’s there,” Ortega, 73, who is brazenly gay himself, instructed Variety in June 2020. “We made up our minds he’s most likely going to come out in school. It was much less about popping out and just more about letting his true colors come ahead.”
Ortega went on to explain why Ryan’s sexuality couldn’t be discussed when the musical film came out.
“I should be honest with you. I didn’t suppose at the time [it could] — and Disney is the maximum progressive team of other people I’ve ever worked with,” he added at the time, noting that the studio “might not be in a position to go that line and transfer into that territory but” considering High School Musical catered to family and kids.
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The choreographer persisted: “So, I just took it upon myself to make choices that I felt that those that had been gazing would take hold of. They would see it, they'd really feel it, they'd comprehend it and they would identify with it. And that is what happened. I've to say hundreds of children that experience mentioned, ‘If it weren’t for High School Musical, I don’t know that I'd have ever been comfortable in my pores and skin. I don’t know once I would had been ready to really feel comfy enough to come out, include who I'm.'”
The fourth and final season of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series premieres on Disney+ August 9.
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