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‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Director: Sequel Should Address LGBT Rights

Paul Bois

Rob Marshall, the openly gay director of the recent Disney sequel “Mary Poppins Returns,” says a third installment should focus on the fight for LGBT rights.

Speaking with LGBT news publication The Advocate, Marshall said the Mary Poppins movies have been an outlet for social movements. The first showed the mother, Winifred Banks, as an advocate for women’s suffrage; the second featured Winifred’s daughter, Jane, as a labor organizer; the third, Marshall says, should focus on the battle for LGBT rights in the ’60s.

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