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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C-3PO WAS BASED ON GEE LUS’S “GAY FRIEND”
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. Although 20th Century Fox ially cricized the ia to have a gay character the seri, Gee Lus got his way around by hirg Anthony Daniels, one of the rare outspoken and openly gay actors at the time.