And forward of this closing season, the destiny of the fictional Ryan Evans was revealed in a teaser ahead of the premiere.
Within the scene launched July 25, throughout which the actors are filming as their characters, Lucas’ Ryan may be seen kissing his accomplice (performed by Pentatonix’s Scott Hoying) and thanking him for coming to look at as he performs alongside his former classmates. “This implies a lot to me that you simply’re right here,” Ryan says whereas the 2 are backstage. “Gimme that mic.”
For Excessive Faculty Musical trilogy director Kenny Ortega, the scene confirms a element he’d at all times wished to incorporate. Whereas he’d always intended for the character to be homosexual, he wasn’t positive audiences had been prepared when the unique film premiered in 2006.
“I used to be involved as a result of it was household and youngsters, that Disney won’t be able to cross that line and transfer into that territory but,” he defined to Variety in 2020. “So, I simply took it upon myself to make selections that I felt that those that had been watching would seize. They might see it, they’d really feel it, they’d comprehend it, and they might establish with it. And that’s what occurred.”