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class="ArticlePageLeBackground-EufvU tFsh"><hear class="ContentHearWrapper-clujbs ekNygm ntent-hear article__ntent-hear"><div data-ttid="ContentHearContaer" class="ContentHearContaer-cGKRbE knDxNq"><div class="ContentHearHedAccredatnWrapper-GFiQf cDNVlV"><div data-ttid="ContentHearTleBlockWrapper" class="ContentHearTleBlockWrapper-cjmSKp cCntXd"><div data-ttid="ContentHearRubric" class="ContentHearRubricBlock-LmpbT eRFpQc"><div data-ttid="ContentHearRubricDateBlock" class="ContentHearRubricDateBlock-kAQcZP fTFWxD"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX kpuNXj bric ContentHearRubricContaer-eTudtt iRsSlw"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Film</span></div></div></div><h1 data-ttid="ContentHearHed" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ContentHearHed-NCyCC iUEiRd jPOabC BjYFU">M3GAN was factory ma to be an LGBTQ+ cult in</h1></div><div class="ContentHearAccredatn-lfctVB etVsnJ ntent-hear__accredatn" data-ttid="ContentHearAccredatn"><div class="ContentHearDek-bIqFFZ eASNBN">The eponymo robot doll jos an illtr le-up of recent horror villas — Ma, Pennywise, The Babadook — embraced as queer hero. Unlike those guys, M3GAN was built to be one</div><div class="ContentHearByle-kmPyCa emiglw"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ContentHearContributorImage-cvjZXn epCAJC"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ContentHearContributorImage-cvjZXn epCAJC rponsive-image"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 80w" siz="66px"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 90w" siz="66px"/><img alt="" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></picture></span><div class="ContentHearByleContent-dpPmNn DRFq"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl ContentHearByl-cZqgyJ bHLeKI"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH gtxxjM byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd dlWgVJ gnILss byle__preamble">By </span><a class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ByleLk-gEnFiw iUEiRd fhQbnq dzFUnH eErqIx byle__name-lk button" href="/profile/jack-kg">Jack Kg</a></span></span></p></div><time data-ttid="ContentHearPublishDate" dateTime="2023-01-11T16:15:00Z" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ContentHearPublishDate-eIBicG iUEiRd ivrQAn cZpOSL">11 January 2023</time></div></div><div class="SocialInsWrapper-hKMEXV bqESvf social-ins social-ins--standard ContentHearAccredatnSocialIns-jorO eYcyYU ntent-hear__social-share"><ul data-ttid="socialInslist" class="SocialInsList-cHVTIA ivmblD social-ins__list"></ul></div></div></div><div class="ContentHearLeadAsset-hGbumP dDDxdb lead-asset ContentHearLeadAssetWrapper-hfXHEc Grck lead-asset--width-grid" data-ttid="ContentHearLeadAsset"><figure class="ContentHearLeadAssetContent-kOfYSG dRGWbI"><div class="ContentHearLeadAssetContentMedia-bLEIpi hgDTU lead-asset__ntent__photo"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz ccdiSo"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm rponsive-image"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w, 1920w, 2240w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="MEGAN was factory ma to be an LGBTQ cult in" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></picture></div></div></span></div></figure></div></div></hear></div><div data-attribute-verso-pattern="article-body" class="ArticlePageContentBackGround-cNiFNN kAwnHf article-body__ntent"><div class="ArticlePageChunksContent-etcMtP eRxRjL"><div data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eOdfIs"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>It's not hard to nclu why the M3GAN has been so readily embraced by queer dienc. She was factory-ma wh that md.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>If you're not faiar, here's the brieft explaer. A new movie om <em>Saw</em> meistro Jam Wan and the movie dtry's biggt <a href=">horror</a> hter, Jason Blum, centr on a cidly <a href="><em>Black Mirror</em></a>-que ncept: a young girl, Cady, is left to live wh her workaholic, tech whiz nt after the ath of her parents, the latter fillg the parental void wh an AI-driven doll, the eponymo M3GAN. As you'd expect, she's iendly at first, remarkable her abily to know exactly what Cady needs at any time. </p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn gyJE llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><asi class="Sibar-pgAgH izeprZ" data-ttid="SibarEmbed"><div data-ttid="SibarArticleRelatedListItem" class="RelatedListItem-gClwMZ jnSmXl"><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff cGfJlO summary-em summary-em--has-borr summary-em--has-mobile-borr summary-em--article summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-si-by-si summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-33-66 summary-em--si-by-si-align-top summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard RelatedListSummaryItem-dgcIcF FEscD" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href="/culture/article/horror-movi-halloween" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg egpoQR summary-em__image"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg egpoQR summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="The ward's gui to sry movi" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX kpuNXj bric SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Film</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM fFPekr summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href="/culture/article/horror-movi-halloween" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ ejPNRQ summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><h3 class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf dipRRs" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">The ward's gui to sry movi</h3></div></div></a><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY jbnRem summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH bfGBQB byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd dlWgVJ gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Lucy Ford</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></asi></div><p>There are a uple of downsis. Like an orphaned baby bird imprtg self on the first v creature fds post-hatch, Cady be too emotnally pennt on M3GAN for her own good. Not great. Oh — and M3GAN's beta software works self to an overly protective, sid enzy, ncludg that Cady mt be emotnally and physilly protected at all sts. <em>All sts</em>. Up to and cludg maximum slayage, lloquially and lerally. Not great, eher. </p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>Early trailers set the queer onle zegeist ablaze, centrg on TikTok-ready scen of M3GAN sashayg down a hall a fashn most fierce. Onle marketg grabbed hold of the queer rponse immediately, <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">M3GAN's Twter profile</a> takg on the lower-se text speak of a stan, echog gay lgo ("btie," an affy for bnch, lots of nail polish emojis) and phg M3GAN as a iend of the gays bee, well, wh a mp villa like this, of urse you would.</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="3yewsi"></div></div><div aria-label="social media post" class="TwterEmbedContaer-ggEzfU fHwbKp"><div class="MsageBannerWrapper-krrtvl dPWdqP ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ" data-ttid="msage-banner"><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MsageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd eEowro fVWngD"><h4 class="ConsentBannerTle-lgaGAH gOfech">Twter ntent</h4><p>This ntent n also be viewed on the se <a href=" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLk-dJZMSz iUEiRd eEowro ftMTjc">origat</a> om.</p></div></div></div><p>In many ways, M3GAN is like a Guncle: happy to look fabulo takg charge of the kids, the parental urper who disregards rponsibily li of beg the “ol” adult, and if such feelgs register her emotnal rtex one would image she holds ep lns of granur. But that isn't why M3GAN has ronated so much wh <a href=">LGBTQ+ dienc</a>, like so many of her horror k before her — thk of the mem that posned the tular Babadook as a retroactive Pri in, or another faiar mononymo evil, Ma.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="15zxw"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="sxoh88"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>Ined, as <em>M3GAN</em> storms the box office the US ( took a staggerg $30m s openg weekend), the cultural nversatn swellg to a whirlpool of thkpiec and lumns measurg this killer doll's posn the onle space, we risk overthkg . </p><p>One quote om <em>M3GAN</em> wrer Akela Cooper, wily rid on Twter after beg shared by a film news aggregator, nicely illtrat our tenncy to over-stretch, even if taken <em>somewhat</em> out of ntext. “I actually asked one of my iends who is a gay man about [why M3GAN beme queer in],” she told <em>SFX Magaze</em> (h/t <a href="><em>ScreenRant</em></a>). “He was sayg this set-up is actually found fay, where this ltle girl has lost her fay, and she has to go live wh her nt. Then this doll is also brought to the suatn. That ronat for a lot of people the gay muny, the ia of found fay.”</p><p>Er, yeah? It's certaly applible, and Cooper has been unfairly maligned as this beg <em>her</em> posn on M3GAN's cult stardom, but this isn't somethg we need to over analyse. Sure, might be that <em>M3GAN</em> ronat wh gays on a eper subnsc level, reflectg the anxieti around faial abandonment that unfortunately affect a disproportnate number of the LGBTQ+ populatn. Maybe she's the maternal figure we all yearn for — we're all Cady, sperate for the embrace of a woman who yass and slays her way to succs, as we all so clearly sire.</p><p>Or, you know, she's jt kda servg. Her reference pots, like most dangeroly onle gays who spend hours of screen time surg the Twter timele, are empowerg pop ballads, not least Sia's “Tanium,” livered here the form of a mp lullaby. She reads bch for filth, then kills them. She rhythmilly ntorts herself like many a twk Heaven on a Friday night. There's the all-too-faiar sense of whimsil tragedy, like Norma Dmond <em>Sunset Boulevard</em> — a cultural artefact long upheld by gay men who like to image themselv the limelight. (See, too, Mia Goth's histrnic performance another <a href=">horror movie</a> readily embraced by LGBTQ+ dienc this year, <em>Pearl</em>.) She was built om the first wire for fger-snappg and a chos of “in.”</p><p>“Allison Williams <em>M3GAN</em> unrstands that if you want to make a toy that preteen girls will love,” <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wrote Louis Pezman on Twter</a>, “you have to create somethg that gay people will lose their sh over.” And that's M3GAN, dramatilly whippg off her big-ame sunglass like a wannabe Hollywood starlet, si-eyeg her mechanil, yassified peepers through one-hundred mut of ntime. It's all jt knowgly silly, and marketed towards a mographic who, to put no fer pot on , love that sh. Let's not overdo . 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M3GAN is here to solidify herself as a cultural in. The star of the surprise smash h horror film "M3GAN" "sat down" wh Dazed to talk about her newfound fame and plans gog forward. One of the most unexpected plac the killer robot has found acceptance is wh the gay muny as a queer in.…

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HOW A CREEPY DANCE AND INSTANT GAY IN STAT TURNED ‘M3GAN’ INTO A BOX OFFICE SMASH

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” Joe Valle, a New York Universy profsor whose rearch has explored the lks between queerns and horror movi, told Vox he knew M3GAN would bee an stant gay in, addg queer men may be reclaimg what has long been societally prohibed, like femy. One of the most unexpected plac the killer robot has found acceptance is wh the gay muny as a queer in. “The gay muny see me as their mother and in, I have no tentn of lettg them down.

M3GAN is one of the biggt movi Ameri right now -- and you n thank The Gays for what exactly is about the film that has gays flockg to the theater and brgg the straights wh them? Acrdg to M3GAN's wrer Akela Cooper, the queer muny is flockg to the movie bee of s a recent terview wh SFX Magaze, Cooper said that she actually talked to a gay iend about the excement the muny around her movie. "I actually asked one of my iends who is a gay man about that and he was sayg this set-up is actually found fay, where this ltle girl has lost her fay, and she has to go live wh her nt, " she said.

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"As soon as news s started reportg on Cooper's quote, gays across the ter chimed wh the real reason behd M3GAN's in that is very fely the theme of the movie (and we love for s portrayal of two women raisg a young girl together), that's not the reason we were first drawn to the movie - the found fay theme is jt the icg on the lic, mpy Twter er @kensucksss so eloquently put , M3GAN didn't bee an stant gay in bee of the them of the movie, she was one the stant we saw the first trailer. 1673462263Thoands of other Twter gays joed , echog the sentiment, and sayg they've loved M3GAN sce they first saw her silly ltle dance. "This is funny bee any other circumstance, this would be a good analysis on why gays feel nnected to a character due to the found fay trope, " Twter er @LothWolffe wrote.

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"I actually asked one of my iends who is a gay man about that and he was sayg this set-up is actually found fay, where this ltle girl has lost her fay, and she has to go live wh her nt. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTReporter’s NotebookThe tle robot — remiscent of the loyal but msy straight women that gay men are protective of — is progrs for a genre wh a shameful killer doll “M3gan” is fashnable, knowg and PicturPublished Jan. “M3gan” is also a w for gay movi.

M3GAN SCREENWRER AKELA COOPER DID NOT SET OUT TO INVENT A GAY IN THE MD BEHD EVERYONE’S FAVORE KILLER ROBOT DOLL CHATS WH VF ABOUT HER LIFELONG LOVE OF HORROR, BEG TYPE A, AND M3GAN’S UNNNY REMBLANCE TO A SORORY GIRL.BY CHRIS MURPHYJANUARY 12, 2023FACEBOOKTWTEREMAILSAVE STORYJON KOPALOFF/FILM MAGICSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFOR AKELA COOPER, THE SCREENWRER BEHD UNIVERSAL’S H HORROR-EDY M3GAN, HORROR HAS ALWAYS BEEN A FAY AFFAIR. “I WAS STEEPED SCIENCE FICTN BEE MY PARENTS WERE REALLY TO SCI-FI, PECIALLY MY DAD,” SHE TELLS VANY FAIR OVER ZOOM. “HORROR WAS MY OLR SIBLGS’ THG. I WOULD END UP, PROBABLY APPROPRIATELY, WATCHG A LOT OF HORROR BEE OF THEM. I JT ME TO LOVE THE THRILL OF BEG SRED, AND JT GREW AN APPRECIATN FOR MONSTERS AND MONSTER SIGN. SO ’S ALWAYS BEEN WH ME.” HER LOVE OF THE GENRE IS CLEAR AS SHE ZOOMS OM HER HOME OFFICE LOS ANGEL, WHICH IS VERED HORROR MOVIE POSTERS AND PARAPHERNALIA. WHILE M3GAN HAS EARNED RAV FOR S SEAMLS MIX OF HORROR AND HUMOR, EDY HAS NEVER BEEN A PARTICULAR PASSN FOR COOPER. “I DON’T EVER REALLY WRE TO TONE. I’M NOT LIKE, THIS IS MPY NOW, AND NOW THIS HAS TO TRANSN TO SERNS,” COOPER SAYS. “I JT WRE THE SCEN AS I SEE THEM MY HEAD. IT ALL JT STARTS WH THE CHARACTERS. WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERS DOG THE SCEN? WHAT ARE THEY FEELG? WHAT IS M3GAN DOG? WHAT IS SHE FEELG? HOW IS SHE RPONDG TO ALL OF THIS?”COOPER CHATS WH VANY FAIR ABOUT ACCINTALLY VENTG A QUEER IN, THE LLABORATIVE NATURE OF FILMMAKG, AND HER FAVORE HORROR VILLA OF ALL TIME.VANY FAIR: WHAT HORROR MEDIA WERE YOU OBSSED WH WHEN YOU WERE A KID?AKELA COOPER: I ME TO STEPHEN KG FAIRLY EARLY ON. I SAW CHRISTE AS A MIDDAY MOVIE A BUNCH. IT WOULD JT AIR AND I WOULD TCH AT VAR TIM. THEN ONE TIME, I UGHT AT THE BEGNG. I SAW THE CREDS, AND THAT WAS BASED ON A NOVEL BY STEPHEN KG. I'M LIKE, "THIS IS A BOOK? I LOVE READG BOOKS. LET ME SEEK OUT THIS BOOK." CHRISTE WAS THE FIRST STEPHEN KG NOVEL I EVER READ, AND THEN JT WENT OM THERE, BEE I THK HE'S AN AWOME THOR.ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVORE HORROR MOVI IS PUMPKHEAD, DIRECTED BY STAN WSTON. I ALSO LOVE JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THG. THE ORIGAL ALIEN, WHICH IS MORE SCI-FI HORROR THAN THE SEQUEL, EVEN THOUGH THE SEQUEL WAS MY FAVORE MOVIE OF ALL TIME. PREDATOR, CARRIE, CHILD'S PLAY. NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET IS MY FAVORE OF THE BIG FOUR. I'M A FREDDY [KRGER] GIRL.YOU'RE A FREDDY GIRL, OKAY.YEAH, THEN 'S JASON [VOORHE], AND THEN 'S MICHAEL [MYERS]. THEN PROBABLY 'S A TOSS UP BETWEEN LEATHERFACE AND CHUCKY. PROBABLY MORE SO CHUCKY. IF I HAD TO PUT ONE [MOVIE] ON, I'D PUT CHILD'S PLAY ON BEFORE I PUT ON TEXAS CHASAW MASSACRE.WHY IS FREDDY YOUR FAVORE?WELL, FREDDY WAS THE FIRST MONSTER WH A PERSONALY. ROBERT ENGLUND IS SO GREAT THAT ROLE, AND AS THE MOVI WENT ON, HE BEME FUNNIER. IT BEME ONE OF THOSE THGS WHERE 'S LIKE, "Y. I WANT TO SEE HIM KILL PEOPLE." BUT YEAH, IS THE STYLE THAT HE BRGS AND THAT INIC LOOK.SPEAKG OF GREAT PERFORMANC, ALLISON WILLIAMS IS PERFECTLY ST AS GEMMA  M3GAN. HOW DID YOU NCEIVE OF THE TIGHTLY WOUND, TYPE A PROTAGONIST? BEE I’M A TYPE-A PERSONALY [LGHS]. IT ALL ME OM, "OH MY GOD. WHAT WOULD I HAVE TO DO IF I HAD TO TAKE RE OF A SMALL CHILD?" THEN JT WORKG THOSE ASPECTS, GETTG NOT OM THE GUYS AT ATOMIC MONSTER AND BLUMHOE WHO DO HAVE KIDS. I DO NOT HAVE KIDS. THEY'RE BRGG THEIR PARENTAL EXPERIENCE TO . IT'S LIKE, "WELL, WHAT IF WAS THIS?" AND JT WEAVG ALL OF THOSE TOGETHER. I WAS NEVER PICTURG ALLISON WILLIAMS.WOW, THAT’S CRAZY BEE FEELS AS IF THE PART WAS WRTEN FOR HER. WERE YOU PICTURG ANY ACTRS SPECIFILLY?NOT NECSARILY. IT REALLY WAS ABOUT PERSONALY ON THE PAGE. LUCKILY, ALLISON WAS THE RIGHT F FOR ALL OF THAT. IT WAS VERY FORTUO THAT WE FOUND EACH OTHER AND SHE WAS ST.YOU’VE MENTNED THE POTENTIAL FOR AN UNRATED, “GORIER” DIRECTOR’S CUT OF M3GAN. CAN YOU TELL ME A LTLE MORE ABOUT THAT? WELL, TO CLARIFY, [DRAFTS OF] MY SCRIPT WERE DARKER TO THE POT WHERE JAM WAN HAD TO GIVE ME THE NOTICE, "HEY. YOU'VE KILLED OFF TOO MANY CHARACTERS." I REMEMBER ONE OF THE EMPLOYE AT FUNKY WAS, I THK, BTALLY MURRED A STAIRWELL. THE SCRIPT WAS WAY MORE GOME. EVEN WHAT WE FILMED, THERE WAS MORE BLOOD AND A LTLE B MORE GORE. SO Y, IF THERE EVER IS AN UNRATED VERSN, WHICH I HOPE THERE IS—AS I'VE SAID, I KNOW THEY'RE TALKS TO DO —HOPEFULLY THEY WILL DO . BUT YEAH, LIKE RONNY CHIENG'S CHARACTER'S ATH, THAT WAS WAY BLOODIER THE R-RATED VERSN. HOPEFULLY, PEOPLE WILL GET TO SEE THAT, BEE I KD OF MISS THAT.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISAS THE SCREENWRER, WERE YOU ON SET FOR ANY OF THE FILMG? HOW VOLVED WERE YOU THE FAL PRODUCT? CRED TO [M3GAN DIRECTOR] GERARD JOHNSTONE. HE GAVE ME A LL WHEN HE WAS BROUGHT ON. HE WAS LIKE, "I LOVE THE SCRIPT." HE DID HIS PASS FOR WHAT HE WANTED TO SEE. THEN DUE TO COVID PRODUCTN CHANGE, WENT OM CANADA TO NEW ZEALAND. SO UNFORTUNATELY, DUE TO THE PANMIC, I DIDN'T GET TO GO TO SET AND HANG OUT.BUT I WAS TOUCH WH THE PRODUCER WHO WAS ON SET DURG FILMG. WHAT WAS GREAT WAS THAT THEY DIDN'T NEED ME. THEY HAD EVERYTHG THEY NEED, AND TURNED OUT GREAT.THE M3GAN TRAILER DROPS, AND THEN IMMEDIATELY, SHE'S A VIRAL SENSATN. ALL THE GAYS LOVE HER. WHAT'S NNG THROUGH YOUR HEAD? ARE YOU LIKE, "OH MY GOD. THIS IS SO GREAT"? OR "OH MY GOD.  WILL WE EVER LIVE UP TO THIS HYPE?"A LTLE B OF BOTH. I KD OF HAD A HEADS UP AT COMIC-CON. I WAS ON A PANEL WH A BUNCH OF OTHER WONRFUL HORROR WRERS AND DIRECTORS. ONE OF THEM WAS SAM WEMAN WHO'D GOTTEN TO SEE AN EARLY SCREENG.HE PULLED ME ASI, AND HE WAS LIKE, "M3GAN IS GOG TO BE SUCH A GAY IN." I WAS LIKE, "WHAT ARE YOU TALKG ABOUT?" SADLY, THERE'S NO REAL ROMANCE THE MOVIE, BUT I'M LIKE, "THERE'S NO OVERTLY GAY CHARACTER. WHAT ARE YOU TALKG ABOUT?" HE'S LIKE, "OH NO. IT'S NOT ABOUT THAT. IT'S ABOUT M3GAN. SHE IS GOG TO BEE A GAY IN." I WAS LIKE, "OKAY. I'M GOG TO TAKE YOUR WORD FOR , SAM." THEN THE TRAILER ME OUT, AND THE MEM STARTED, AND Y, THE GAY MUNY JT LATCHED ONTO . I WAS TEXTG SAM. I WAS LIKE, "HOLY SH. YOU WERE RIGHT. THIS IS AMAZG."DID YOU TEND TO WRE A GAY IN?NO. MY SCRIPTN OF HER WAS REALLY SPARSE. MY SCRIPTN OF M3GAN WAS LIKE ... I THK SHE WAS WEARG A SCHOOL OUTF, LIKE A LTLE CHILD'S SCHOOL UNIFORM. SHE WAS FOUR FEET, THE HEIGHT OF AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD. THAT WAS .THEN GERARD ME , AND HE HAD AN IA OF WHAT HE WANTED HER TO LOOK LIKE. THEY PUT THE SIGN TOGETHER WH THE OUTF. THEN I REMEMBER THE PRODUCER SHOWED ME A PHOTO ON HIS PHONE. I'M LIKE, "HOLY SH. SHE LOOKS LIKE A RANGED SORORY GIRL." IMMEDIATELY, 'S DISTURBG. SHE'S GOT THAT UNNNY FEELG. IT'S LIKE SHE'S GOG TO STAB YOU AFTER THIS AT PARTY.ANOTHER THG THAT MAK M3GAN AN IN IS HER SGG AND DANCG.  THE DIENCE WENT KNOWG THAT SHE WAS GOG TO DANCE, BUT THE SGG WAS A PLETE SURPRISE.THAT WAS A BETIFUL SURPRISE TO ME. I DID NOT WRE HER SGG LULLABI. I WROTE HER AS FORTG CADY. THEN GERARD SE THAT AND 'S LIKE, "WELL, WHAT N SHE DO?"AMIE DONALD WAS ST [AS M3GAN’S BODY], AND AMIE N DANCE, AND JENNA DAVIS, WHO DO THE VOICE OF M3GAN, N SG. SO 'S LIKE LIGHT BULBS ARE GOG OFF FOR PEOPLE. [IN] ONE OF MY EARLY DRAFTS, THE MANDATE WAS—BEE WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW WE WERE GOG TO BUILD M3GAN—I ULDN'T HAVE HER MOVG ALL THAT MUCH. IT WASN'T UNTIL AMIE DONALD ME , 'S LIKE, "OKAY. SHE N MOVE NOW. GREAT." THERE WAS NEVER ANY DANCG THE SCRIPTS. THAT WAS A PRODUCTN LL. AFTER AMIE HAD BEEN ST GERARD HAD THIS FEVER DREAM AND WAS LIKE, "WHAT IF SHE'S DANCG?" IT'S LIKE, "SURE."NOW THAT M3GAN HAS BEEN A CRIL SUCCS AND A MERCIAL SUCCS ARE YOU WORRIED OF PEOPLE POTENTIALLY TRYG TO PY THE STYLE AND TONE THAT YOU'VE CREATED?THE FLOODGAT ARE OPEN. WE N HAVE MORE M3GANS. I AM HAPPY THAT I'VE HAD A HAND OPENG THE DOOR THAT MORE MOVI LIKE THIS, PECIALLY IF THEY'RE ORIGAL, N GET MA. I ME UP WH ... WAS PISSO WHO SAID, "GOOD ARTISTS BORROW. GREAT ARTISTS STEAL"?THERE'S SO MANY GREAT HORROR MOVIE MOMENTS WHERE I WAS LIKE, "I'M GOG TO E THAT SOMEDAY. YEAH." IF M3GAN SPIR SOME OTHER WRER OUT THERE TO CREATE A SGG, DANCG, TERROR DOLL, MORE POWER TO THEM.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)CHRIS MURPHY

The tle robot — remiscent of the loyal but msy straight women that gay men are protective of — is progrs for a genre wh a shameful history. * megan a gay icon *

And y, “M3gan” is a gay movie, or more accurately a movie wh a foundatnally gay sensibily — the gayt non-gay horror film to make a splash sce “The Babadook” beme a subversive Pri mast six years be clear: The only thg flamg “M3gan” is the explosive fale.

” The queer publitn them lled the film “the gay Inter’s new horror obssn. ”As the cematographer for “The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula, ” a horror-themed drag petn on Shudr, and a gay man, Brent Bailey knows about the tersectn of queerns and srs. He thks “M3gan” is gay, too, and ’s straight women who make so.

“Gays, we love a woman charge, and the three ma characters of this movie are women, ” said Bailey, who saw the film Los Angel.

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The LGBTQ+ muny has embraced the killer doll om the Blumhoe horror movie M3GAN. Here's why s marketg mpaign, her beg "mother," and more has ma her a gay in. * megan a gay icon *

“Gay men have always loved movi about female relatnships. ” He poted to “Thelma & Louise” but also “Drop Dead Geo, ” the 1999 darkly ic bety-pageant mockumentary, addg, “Even though they aren’t specifilly gay, they’re about strong femal.

That the film is about three strong female characters is a draw for gay viewers, said the cematographer Brent Short/Universal PicturIn a vio terview om his native New Zealand, Johnstone said he had an klg that queer fans would go for “M3gan. “I’ve had awome support om gay people my short reer, ” said Johnstone, a straight married man wh kids.

“As a non-gay person, I try not to make assumptns about why a gay person lik this movie, ” he said. I’ll tell you why: Bee gay men are protective of women like M3gan, the geo and loyal but msy and solent on. ) We nsir our M3gans to be fay, and we will fight you if you even look at them fd M3gan’s gay roots, flip the lendar back to October, when Universal dropped the first trailer.

WHY M3GAN IS STED TO BE A GAY IN

A gay perfect storm helped go viral: It was Natnal Comg Out Day and Halloween month. Gay stan Megan Thee Stalln tweeted . ” I’ll bet my “Like a Virg” tour T-shirt that a gay man Universal’s marketg partment knows a girl who danc like that and said, Keep .

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Tst trailer’s gayns might not be readily apparent.

He said that what’s drawg gay ey to M3gan is more than good Rtg Bch Face. It’s that dualy — big sister and butcher — that many gay men see a kship, and an aspiratn. Universal Pictur“Gay men have historilly been seen as ls than and weaker, mentally and physilly, and we know that’s not the se, ” Valle said.

$100M AND A SEQUEL THE WORKS: WHY HAS M3GAN BEE SUCH A H (AND A GAY IN)?

Viewers’ embrace of “M3gan” wh their relatively lewarm rponse to “Bros, ” an unqutnably gay movie. “Bros” was nsired a bomb, and as much as I hate to say this as a longtime gay movie fan, I get .

The marketg felt sperate, remiscent of the time 1997 that I went to “Kiss Me, Guido” on openg weekend bee I felt obliged to make somebody notice that gay men would spend money to see gay movi. Sce then I’ve seen tons of movi about hot but secure gay characters searchg for love, but I’ve never seen a horror movie that’s gay the way “M3gan” is: fashnable, knowg, cuttg.

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Watchg the “M3gan” trailer ma me want to see do matter that “M3gan” is gay? Jason” lled Freddy Keger a gay slur and I felt like I’d been bullied on the playground as cheers filled the has a shameful past when to queer people so, yeah, I’m gog to celebrate when a “fierce bch android lady, ” as Bailey lled M3gan, be part of a ltle girl’s chosen asi the slghter, and I’d want her produced by Kate Wslett. Thanks to s viral trailer, M3GAN has driven signifint tert among termally onle gay folks for s mpy tone and absurd premise.

She ially begs the film as a benevolent pann to Cady (Vlet McGraw), the orphaned niece of M3GAN’s programmer Gemma (Allison Williams, another in among ter gays).

In a recent terview wh SFX Magaze, screenwrer Akela Cooper, who also wrote the beloved, batsh 2021 horror flick Malignant, explaed that M3GAN’s prence Cady’s life aligns wh a theme of found fay that gay dienc n intify wh. Gay people really jt love fundamentally stupid, prepostero media!

‘M3GAN’ STAR ALLISON WILLIAMS ON A POTENTIAL SEQUEL AND WHAT MAK THE AI DOLL A GAY IN

To quote that one tweet om edian Adam Friedland, when M3GAN do some socpathic sh, gay people will rpond wh “Hontly, work. Some have gone so far as to refute Cooper’s ntentn by mentng that M3GAN is a gay in bee she’s mean, pretty, and able to dance, she sgs an earnt rendn of “Tanium” by Sia, she’s a killer, and she’s a eak girl who flips and wears a Cele overat. Perhaps most importantly, she’s “mother, ” a playful label gay people will assign to any woman pop culture who embodi rilience, strength, ferocy, and bety.

MEET M3GAN, THE GAY INTER’S NEW HORROR OBSSN

M3GAN’s equally nurturg and lculatg nature is one of the few characteristics that gay people have long fawned over and gravated toward when to cematic pictns of powerful women. Blumhoe’s effective marketg for M3GAN particular played a huge role persuadg and securg the attentn of a young gay dience. On her Twter acunt, she (or whoever the gay social media manager is who’s nng ) has published snarky posts rewordg tweets that are cril of the film and dissg Chucky, another cherished killer doll wh a strong LGBTQ+ followg.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* MEGAN A GAY ICON

Why M3GAN is sted to be a gay in .

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