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.
C-3PO WAS BASED ON GEE LUS’S “GAY FRIEND”
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. “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.
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. This would make C-3PO, a humanoid robot character played by Anthony Daniels, the first officially gay character of the Star Wars movie seri. “At first, C-3PO was not tend to be a robot but a Morphlak, a humanoid speci that were only of male genr, but the stud wasn’t too open about the ia of a gay character, let alone a whole pla stag a gay speci” he remembers.