Gee Lus a rare terview admted that the popular C-3PO character was origally based on his gay iend, Josh Templar, who helped him sign some of the Star Wars characters at the time.
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‘THE SIMPSONS’ LANDMARK GAY EPISO KEEPS THE FAY
To his dismay, Hal is forced to play the part as Le Skywalker and sg a song lled "Le, Be a Jedi", a parody of "Luck be a Lady Tonight" an advertisement for the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con, C-3PO and R2-D2 are scribed as "the gay robots om Star Wars" and shown a tag-team wrtlg match wh two Cylons om Battltar of the atten at the 'Con is stumed as a Rebel soldier (om The Empire Strik Back) ridg a Homer fights Louie, Hal advis him to "Use the forks! It's the mighty robots om Battltar Galacti vs the gay robots om Star Wars. The gay robots of Star Wars.
And while ’s a historil moment for Smhers, ’s also a full-circle one for longtime seri wrer Rob LaZebnik, whose son, Johnny, spired Smhers’ big, gay g-out episo 2016. Of urse, Smhers — who fds himself thst to a globe-trottg, whirlwd romance wh Garber’s fashnista — was already fluenced by them both when he bted down his closet door 2016’s touchg Season 27 episo “Tom Colls, ” which was penned by Rob as an homage to his gay son.
“So often, gay romanc are a subplot or allud to or shown some kd of montage or as a punchle. And what I thk I was really exced about, wh this episo, we get to see — whout spoilg too much — the begng, middle and who knows how ends of a gay relatnship, of really gettg to the nty-grty of how gay people date, how they meet, what ’s like, ” he said.
C-3PO WAS BASED ON GEE LUS’S “GAY FRIEND”
“I haven’t played a lot of gay characters, but every time I do , brgs back certa feelgs I had as a young actor where I uldn’t be gay.