Snoop Dogg said he is “scared” to take his grandchildren to the movies after watching Pixar’s “Lightyear,” a 2022 animated film with two openly gay characters.
The “Toy Story” spinoff features the return of space ranger Buzz Lightyear, joined by a host of new faces, including Alisha Hawthorne, Buzz’s friend and commanding officer. During a montage early in the film, Alisha raises a child with her wife, with whom she shares a brief kiss.
On a recent episode of the “It’s Giving” podcast, Snoop said his grandson had asked him while watching the movie how Alisha was able to have a child with another woman.
“Oh s‑‑‑, I didn’t come in for this s‑‑‑. I just came to watch the goddamn movie,’” the rap legend recalled thinking. “It f‑‑‑ed me up. I’m, like, scared to go to the movies now. Y’all throwing me in the middle of s‑‑‑ that I don’t have an answer for.”
“These are kids,” he added. “We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”
“Lightyear,” the prequel to Pixar’s 1995classic, was banned from theaters in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates, amongclose to a dozen others, after Disney, Pixar’s parent company, declined to cut the couple’s relationship and the kiss from the film.
“We’re not going to cut out anything, especially something as important as the loving and inspirational relationship that shows Buzz what he’s missing by the choices that he’s making, so that’s not getting cut,” producer Galyn Susman told Reuters at the movie’s premiere in London.
In a 2022 interview with Variety, Chris Evans, who voices Buzz, said he was frustrated that a kiss betweentwo characters of the same gender “even has to be a topic of discussion.”
“The goal is that we can get to a point where it is the norm, and that this doesn’t have to be some uncharted waters — that eventually this is just the way it is,” he said. “That representation across the board is how we make films.”
Pixar employees have previously criticized Disney leadership for attempting to remove LGBTQ storylines from the animation studio’s projects. In a 2022 statement signed by the “LGBTQIA+ Employees of Pixar & Their Allies,” workers accused corporate executives of attempting to remove “nearly every moment of overtly gay affection … regardless of when there is protest from both the creative teams and executive leadership at Pixar.”
“We at Pixar have personally witnessed beautiful stories, full of diverse characters, come back from Disney corporate reviews shaved down to crumbs of what they once were,” the employees wrote. “Even if creating LGBTQIA+ content was the answer to fixing the discriminatory legislation in the world, we are being barred from creating it.”
The statement followed a company-wide memo from former Disney CEO Bob Chapek explaining Disney’s decision not to publiclyrespond to a proposed Florida law to restrict lessons about gender and sexuality in public school classrooms. In the memo, Chapek expressed Disney’s “unwavering commitment to the LGBTQ+ community” and said “the biggest impact we can have in creating a more inclusive world is through the inspiring content we produce.”
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