‘Star Trek Beyond’: Simon Pegg Reveals The Real Reason Sulu Is Gay – IndieWire

Contents:

• HAS STAR TREK'S SULU ALWAYS BEEN GAY? IT'S COMPLITED
• SIMON PEGG EXPLAS THE IMPORTANT REASON SULU IS GAY IN ‘STAR TREK BEYOND’
• SULU IS GAY IN 'STAR TREK BEYOND,' MAKG FRANCHISE HISTORY
• GEE TAKEI LLS 'STAR TREK BEYOND' GAY SULU SCENE 'A WHISPER'

HAS STAR TREK'S SULU ALWAYS BEEN GAY? IT'S COMPLITED

Hika Sulu is now known as the first openly gay character  Star Trek, but the character's sexualy hasn't always been so clear-cut. In 2005, 36 years after Star Trek: The Origal Seri end, Sulu's origal actor, Gee Takei, publicly me out as gay.

Wantg to honor this legacy, Simon Pegg me up wh the ia of havg Sulu be gay  J. John Cho supported the ia, as did Zachary Quto, the actor who played Spock and who publicly me out as gay 2011.

Why Takei Was Upset That Sulu Beme Gay. Takei publicly disagreed wh wrer and Stty actor, Simon Pegg about the plan to make Sulu gay. While he wholeheartedly supported the cln of LGBTQ+ characters  Star Trek, he thought a new character should be created stead of makg Sulu nonilly gay.

SIMON PEGG EXPLAS THE IMPORTANT REASON SULU IS GAY IN ‘STAR TREK BEYOND’

Pegg was also wary of Takei's advice to create a new character simply to fulfill the purpose of havg a gay character, as he thought that would lim the character to tokenism. Was Sulu Gay In The Wir Star Trek Canon?

SULU IS GAY IN 'STAR TREK BEYOND,' MAKG FRANCHISE HISTORY

The fact that his dghter existed many of the novels and gam don't preclu the possibily that Sulu might be gay. Abrams' Star Trek exist on different timel, 's possible to say that both a straight Sulu and a gay Sulu exist as part of the multiverse's non.

Yterday, reports h that the fan favore character, played by John Cho the current trilogy, would be revealed as openly gay the upg “Star Trek Beyond.

GEE TAKEI LLS 'STAR TREK BEYOND' GAY SULU SCENE 'A WHISPER'

READ MORE: ‘Star Trek Beyond’: Gee Takei Reacts To ‘Unfortunate’ News of Gay Character. The screenwrer and his team always wanted to clu a gay character the “Star Trek” universe (maly bee the show and movi have always been so progrsive om the begng), and they felt like g a pre-existg character to do so was a more rpectful and impactful way of dog so than jt troducg a brand new origal gay character.

Pegg explas, “We uld have troduced a new gay character, but he or she would have been primarily fed by their sexualy, seen as the ‘gay character’, rather than simply for who they are, and isn’t that tokenism? By revealg such a beloved character is gay, the screenwrg team also wanted to show that “there had been an LGBT prence the Trek Universe om the begng” and prove that “a gay hero isn’t somethg new or strange. As for Takei’s belief that turng Sulu gay chang Rodnberry’s origal visn, Pegg rpond, “I don’t believe Gene Rodnberry’s cisn to make the prime timele’s Enterprise crew straight was an artistic one, more a necsy of the time…The viewg dience weren’t open md enough at the time and mt have forced Rodnberry to modulate his novatn.