Cinema: 5 LGBT Scenes Cut by Hollywood Studios

Lightning fly

In the movie, currently in theaters, Buzz Lightyear is back! Not the one from Toy Story, but the real and legendary Space Ranger that has since inspired the toy we all know. However, the film was at the center of controversy surrounding one of its characters. Indeed, Alicia Hawthorne, the commander of the Space Rangers unit, is in love with another woman and was supposed to kiss her on screen, as reported. variety.

Except that despite the insistence of the Pixar team, the film’s distributor, Disney, cut the kiss sequence. Employees criticized the decision in an open letter, denouncing the Big Bay studio’s longstanding habit of shutting down gay romances and references offered by the creative team.

For the first time in its history, Disney had to go back and re-integrate the scene into the movie version currently showing on screens. Pixar producer Galin Sussman hailed the win, noting that the scene was “always a part” Fiction. However, the film was banned in several countries.

Alien: Covenant

The second installment of the Alien Saga prequel films and Prometheus, Alien: A Post-Covenant Chronicle follows a group of explorers discovering what they believe is an unspoiled paradise. In fact, it is a dark and dangerous world that hides a terrible danger. Obviously, they will try anything to escape.

The less than 5-minute prologue included a gay kiss scene, but the sequence (seen below) was cut:

This kiss between Sergeant Tom Hallett and Chief of Security Dan Lope, which is part of this fragmented prologue, will therefore never be shown in cinemas. A few months before the release, Twentieth Century Fox will certainly put this series on the Internet, but the fact is that it will not appear on the big screen by the decision of the studio.

Black panther

In the Black Panther comics, the characters Okoye (Danai Gurira) and Ayo (Florence Kasumba) are together. Ryan Coogler’s movie was supposed to show their on-screen romance, but in the end it won’t. Instead, the choice is made to show Okoye with a man, Ukabi, T’Challa’s best friend, played by Daniel Kaluuya.

In the interview Vanity FairScreenwriter Joanna Robinson recalled this scene: In the raw version of this scene from Black Panther, we could see (…) Okoye and (…) Ayo swaying in rhythm and formation with their team. Okoye’s gaze soon flirted with Ayo. before the camera breaks. Ayo finishes, “You’re not bad,” and Okoye replies, “I know” with a big smile..

Star Trek Without Borders

John Cho, Sulu’s character interpreter on the USS Enterprise, was commissioned vulnerability In 2016, the year Star Trek Unlimited was released, the studio deleted a gay kiss scene between her character and her husband:

“The scene takes place in the airport with our daughter. We were kissing a little bit. I’m proud of that scene because it was quite difficult. Obviously, I just met the baby and Doug is not an actor. I just wanted it to sound intimate. We’re both straight and we had to have that intimacy. A love moment that was hard to “get over”.

Without elaborating on the reasons for this cut, Cho notes that the scene was indeed deleted from the final cut. Sulu’s sexuality was never a focal point of the film, but it’s hinted at in the art game, which (finally) gives the character some substance that hasn’t been explored much since the reboot began. Saga.

Thor: Ragnarok

In 2017, when Thor: Ragnarok comes out, nobody notices. However, behind the scenes, a very brief sequence was cut that revealed that Valkyrie, the mighty warrior of Asgard, was bisexual. he asked independentHer interpreter, Tessa Thompson, states that her character in the film is, as in the comics, bisexual and prove it.

It recounts a scene that was deleted from the film, but still filmed, in which we saw a woman leaving the fighter’s room defiantly. Taika Waititi, the director of the film, will save it in 2020 and assure: “I don’t own the characters, but with the actors, I think I really support what makes them comfortable, whether it’s a natural choice or a path that their character can naturally take.

Will we see more tangible references in Thor: Love and Thunder, for which Thompson and Waititi return? See you in theaters on July 13!