Lauren Gunderson is standing firmly behind her work on Pixar’s Lightyear after Snoop Dogg criticized the animated movie’s inclusion of a same-sex couple.
The acclaimed author, who earned a further screenplay materials credit score on the 2022 film, fired again at Snoop in a sequence of Threads posts. After a commenter flagged the rapper’s current remarks, Gunderson bluntly replied, “He sucks.”
She added a be aware of optimism in one other put up. “Snoop was nice in the course of the Olympics,” she wrote. “Hopefully he joins the aspect of Love :).”
Her feedback arrived simply days after Snoop prompted main controversy throughout an interview on the It’s Giving podcast. The rapper recalled taking his grandson to see Lightyear and admitted he was uncomfortable when requested by the boy concerning the lesbian couple portrayed within the movie.
“Oh s##t, I didn’t are available for this s##t. I simply got here to observe the g###### film,” Snoop mentioned. “These are children. We now have to indicate that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the reply.”
Within the film, a pair, area ranger Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) and her spouse Kiko, turned one of the crucial talked-about facets of the film. A kiss between them was briefly minimize from the film, however it was later reinstated following backlash. Gunderson mentioned she was the one who initially created their storyline within the script’s early drafts.
“I created the Lightyear lesbians,” she defined. “In 2018, I used to be a author at Pixar — such a cool place, grateful to work there, discovered a ton from variety and spectacular creatives. As we wrote early variations of what turned Lightyear, a key character wanted a companion, and it was so pure to jot down ‘she’ as a substitute of ‘he.’ As small as that element is within the movie, I knew the representational impact it may have. Small line, huge deal. I used to be elated that they saved it. I’m happy with it. To infinity.”
Though she clarified that she had “little or no to do with” the completed screenplay, Gunderson mentioned she was proud her contribution remained. “I used to be proud to see a contented queer couple (even for just a few seconds) on display,” she wrote. “I do know they obtained loads of s##t for this inclusion, however stuff like this issues as a result of stunning love like this exists. It’s not fiction. What’s fiction is Zurg and lightspeed area journey and murderous aliens and a speaking robotic cat.”
She additionally pushed again at claims that the movie injected sexual content material. “What intercourse? It was a contented marriage that was depicted,” she instructed one commenter. “You make it about intercourse.”
Representatives for Snoop Dogg haven’t publicly responded to Gunderson’s remarks
Snoop did make a remark the place he apologized.
“I used to be simply caught off guard and had no reply for my grandsons. All my homosexual pals no (sic) what’s up. They been calling me with love. My unhealthy for not realizing the solutions for a 6 yr previous,” he mentioned on Twitter (identified additionally as X). “Train me easy methods to study I’m not good.”
