Gee Takei Reacts to Gay Sulu News: “I Thk It’s Really Unfortunate” – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• KAL PENN OUT AS GAY, SHAR HOW HIS 11-YEAR RELATNSHIP STARTED WH NASCAR
• JOHN CHO’S SULU IS OFFICIALLY STAR TREK’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
• JOHN CHO NFIRMS THAT SULU IS GAY AND MARRIED "STAR TREK BEYOND"
• JOHN CHO ON REPRENTATN AND HIS NCERNS WH GAY SULU
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: IS HE GAY?JOHN CHO GAY OR STRAIGHT REAL LIFE?
• GEE TAKEI REACTS TO GAY SULU NEWS: “I THK IT’S REALLY UNFORTUNATE”
• JOHN CHO: GAY KISS WAS CUT OM STAR TREK BEYOND
• IS JOHN CHO GAY?
• ‘STAR TREK BEYOND’ NFIRMS THAT HIKA SULU IS GAY
• JOHN CHO’S SULU REVEALED AS GAY ‘STAR TREK BEYOND’
• ‘STAR TREK BEYOND’: JOHN CHO’S CHARACTER SULU IS OPENLY GAY
• JOHN CHO REVEALS SULU IS GAY 'STAR TREK BEYOND'
• JOHN CHO REVEALS SULU IS GAY 'STAR TREK BEYOND' -- HERE'S HOW FANS ARE REACTG!
• JOHN CHO SAYS GAY KISS WAS CUT IN STAR TREK BEYOND
• JOHN CHO WIFE, HEIGHT, BODY MEASUREMENTS, DGHTER, IS HE GAY?

KAL PENN OUT AS GAY, SHAR HOW HIS 11-YEAR RELATNSHIP STARTED WH NASCAR

, most known for his role as Kumar Patel alongsi John Cho’s Harold Lee the h “Harold and Kumar” film anchise, has e out as gay and announced his recent engagement. In an terview wh Atralia’s Herald Sun, Cho has revealed that the versn of Sulu he plays Star Trek Beyond — based on Gee Takei’s origal character Star Trek — is gay. That mak him the first openly gay character Star Trek’s history.

JOHN CHO’S SULU IS OFFICIALLY STAR TREK’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

Cho also said that Star Trek Beyond -wrer Simon Pegg (who also plays Stty the movie) and director Jt L tend for the character’s sexual orientatn to be a nod to Takei, who me out 2005 after s of silence and has been a vol activist for gay rights ever sce. But no matter how sual the cln of a gay crew member may be the movie self, the choice is a big one terms of both the Star Trek non — which has never before explicly stated that a ma crew member is anythg but straight — and for sci-fi blockbters general, which still rarely clu queer characters spe ostensibly takg place worlds far removed om our Earth’s prejudic. Club on the persistent straightns of sci-fi tails exactly how big a al an openly gay character is for Star Trek particular, which has tried and failed to clu one before:.

A month before stg began on Star Trek: The Next Generatn, [seri creator Gene] Rodnberry admted, "We should probably have a gay character on Star Trek.

JOHN CHO NFIRMS THAT SULU IS GAY AND MARRIED "STAR TREK BEYOND"

But at least there was a gay wrer the room, David Gerrold, who wrote a first-season script tellg an AIDS allegory via a gut actor ncerned about his sick boyiend. At the start of the fifth season, Rodnberry promised the seri would fally get to queer stori, and there would be gay crewmen on the Enterprise. Why are there no gay characters Star Trek?

Moore left the anchise, he put bluntly: "There is no answer for other than people charge don’t want gay characters Star Trek. He even promised Febary that we would eventually be seeg gay characters the ever-expandg Star Wars universe. Promis are nice and all, but actn is better, and a nonchalantly gay Sulu on Star Trek is perhaps the first sign of a notable shift toward LGBTQ cln sci-fi.

"I’m lighted that there’s a gay character. Takei went on to say that while Cho, Pegg, and L nsulted wh him ahead of time, that he turn phed back agast the ia that makg Sulu gay uld honor him when he and Rodberry had always viewed the character as heterosexual — and was disappoted when Pegg and L phed ahead wh the plan, regardls of his opposn.

JOHN CHO ON REPRENTATN AND HIS NCERNS WH GAY SULU

Well, that answers that latt Star Trek film, "Star Trek Beyond, " will nfirm that one of s ma characters -- Hika Sulu, played by John Cho -- is gay.

And not only is he gay, but he is married and has a child, Cho revealed to Atralia's Herald Sun.

When John Cho learned that Star Trek Beyond would show that his character, Hika Sulu, is gay, he had a uple of ncerns. I thought that Gee would object bee he’s a gay actor who was playg straight. Then, now, bee he’s an activist and he’s out of the closet—clearly, this is an homage a ltle b to him—[I worried] he would object to takg that om his life and say, “Hey, I was a gay actor who created a straight character, and now you’re makg him gay bee I’ve e out of the closet?, ” that we were jt seeg him for his sexual orientatn.

FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: IS HE GAY?JOHN CHO GAY OR STRAIGHT REAL LIFE?

Asi om jt beg a great narrative vice—which is bee personaliz the stak when Yorktown [a Starfleet base] is threatened by Krall, our villa—the bt thg I n hope for is that enurag some gay or lbian viewer, who is young and don’t feel like he or she se enough of themselv on the screen. JC: The reason was that I grew up wh some gay Asian male iends.

I’ve always felt that there was some extra cultural shame to havg two Asian men together, bee was so difficult to e out of the closet, so difficult to be gay and Asian, that they uldn’t really brg themselv… It’s easier to n away om people that look like your fay.

In 20 mut, ’ll be somethg else, but ’s my turn to talk about , I Regardls, gay or straight— this stance, Sulu happens to be gay—but we’re learng more about his backstory. Is John Cho Gay or Straight Real Life? Fally, the uple have two kids — a son and a now you know the answer to the is John Cho gay or straight like the renewed tert on this subject has somethg to do wh the revelatn that John’s Star Trek character, Hika Sulu, is Herald Sun giv some tails about this new character velopment:ONE of the bt loved characters the Star Trek universe has been revealed to be gay.

GEE TAKEI REACTS TO GAY SULU NEWS: “I THK IT’S REALLY UNFORTUNATE”

He said the cisn by wrer Simon Pegg and L to make Sulu gay was a nod to Gee Takei, who played the character the origal 1960s seri, and was a sign of what he hoped were changg what do we thk of this revelatn? If you’ve not been livg unr a rock, you’d know of urse that Gee is gay.

Tle: Is John Cho Gay or Straight Real Life? That fact is set to change wh the release of Star Trek Beyond on July 22, which has been revealed that Hika Sulu, played by Takei the origal seri and by John Cho the most recent big-screen trilogy, will be gay.

It is meant, part, as a tribute to Takei, who me out as gay 2005 and has sce bee an advote for LGBT rights.

JOHN CHO: GAY KISS WAS CUT OM STAR TREK BEYOND

In a way, revealg Sulu to be gay Beyond is a ntuatn of the anchise’s treatment of diversy as a non-issue. Rodnberry’s son Rod told Wired 2013, though he nced that sound a b like a p-out, “I mean, there were terspeci relatnships on Star Trek, so we’re jt beyond the pot where homosexualy is an issue. ” But as Devon Maloney wrote that story, a thorough look at the anchise’s rerd wh regard to LGBT reprentatn, “The visibily of gay characters isn’t ntral; ’s negative.

Neverthels, Takei — who announced he was gay 2005 — was fully attuned to the gay equaly nversatn gag momentum at the time. Te to s tle, the latt big-screen outg, Star Trek Beyond, has gone where none have gone before: Star John Cho — who assum the Sulu mantle for the third time the reboots — has told Atralia’s Herald Sun that the character is revealed to be gay. He had never asked for Sulu to be gay.

“I’m lighted that there’s a gay character, ” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. Takei tried to nvce him to make a new character gay stead. “I told him, ‘Be imagative and create a character who has a history of beg gay, rather than Sulu, who had been straight all this time, sudnly beg revealed as beg closeted.

IS JOHN CHO GAY?

In other words, assumg non orthodoxy, this storyle suggt Sulu would have had to have first been gay and married, only to then go to the closet years later. Not long after Cho’s bombshell ll me another, this one om L, aga rmg him that Sulu was ed to be gay Star Trek Beyond. '” Takei was certa the creative team had rethought their cisn to make Sulu gay.

‘STAR TREK BEYOND’ NFIRMS THAT HIKA SULU IS GAY

Cho said was bound to e out that his character was gay, and “what should he do? “I really tried to work wh the people when at long last the issue of gay equaly was gog to be addrsed, ” Takei says.

Takei for his part is hopg to take Sulu new directns as well, potentially on CBS’ upg Star Trek seri, slated to premiere January and -n by Alex Kurtzman and Bryan Fuller, who is openly gay. ”Simon Pegg, who -wrote the script, sists that the reprentatn of the gay uple is well-handled and might be explored further future films. “While I unrstand that we are an alternate timele wh the new Trek movi, for me seemed ls than necsary to tker wh an existg character orr to fulfill Gene’s hope of a tly diverse Trek universe, ” he said a Facebook summer has also seen a gay uple feature Inpennce Day: Rurgence and Kate McKnon plays a lbian character Pl Feig’s Ghostbters reboot, which the director claims was also ntered.

As wh a number of other celebri, has always been speculated the issue - John Cho is gay? Neverthels, speculatns over whether John Cho is gay or not are still prent certa rners of the tabloids and on var webs, once aga whout any solid foundatn. In any se, celebri too often refe to talk about their private liv, so we never know if they are gay or straight.

JOHN CHO’S SULU REVEALED AS GAY ‘STAR TREK BEYOND’

Vooxpopuli manag thoands of famo celebri and 's possible we missed some tails about the qutn - Is John Cho gay? In a tribute to his ongog legacy as an in of the Star Trek anchise, wrer Simon Pegg and director Jt L cid make Sulu nonilly gay the upg movie. While Hollywood still has a long way to go terms of queer reprentatn, feels appropriate for Star Trek to be the first big sci-fi anchise to clu a gay character s ma st.

‘STAR TREK BEYOND’: JOHN CHO’S CHARACTER SULU IS OPENLY GAY

Incln of character's hband and child pays homage to openly gay origator of Sulu's role, Gee Takei. John Cho has teased that his character Hika Sulu will be revealed as openly gay 'Star Trek Beyond.

Star Trek actor John Cho revealed that his character Hika Sulu will be revealed as gay the upg film Star Trek Beyond. Acrdg to his terview wh Atralia’s Herald Sun, the cisn is a nod to the origal Sulu and openly gay actor Gee Takei.

JOHN CHO REVEALS SULU IS GAY 'STAR TREK BEYOND'

Sulu will be the first gay nonil character the Star Trek anchise and will have a hband and a young dghter. His cisn to e out to the public was motivated at the time by the then-turbulent issue of legalizg gay marriage as well as his role as psychologist Mart Dysart the play Equ.

Abrams teased the possibily of addg a gay character to the anchise durg an terview wh New Now Next.

John Cho, who plays Sulu the most recent “Star Trek” films, said that his character has a dghter and a partner, makg him the first openly gay character “Star Trek” anchise history. In the upg film, his character, Hika Sulu, is gay, acrdg to the Herald Sun, and shown wh a partner and dghter. Director Jt L and wrer Simon Pegg ma the ll, Cho says, as a nod to openly gay actor Gee Takei, who famoly played Sulu the Star Trek anchise.

JOHN CHO REVEALS SULU IS GAY 'STAR TREK BEYOND' -- HERE'S HOW FANS ARE REACTG!

'Star Trek' Star John Cho Reveals His Character Sulu is Gay! " Turns out, we don't -- Sulu is gay!

Getty ImagY, Sulu will have both a dghter and a hband Beyond -- a change non spired by Gee Takei, the origal Sulu the 1960s TV seri, who is gay and a vol advote for the LGBT 's safe to say fans are pleased:I JUST SAW THE WORDS SULU'S HUSBAND WITH MY OWN TWO EYES IM GON CRY I LOVE STAR TREK— lou | GO2 spoilers (@gallieyvn) July 7, 2016. im genuely really happy that sulu is nonilly gay.

) gay is Star Trek makg up for a long nng s of omissn and payg tribute to Amerin superhero Gee Takei— Andy Khouri (@andykhouri) July 7, 2016. In Star Trek Beyond, Cho’s character Sulu is revealed to be gay, havg a dghter wh his male partner.

JOHN CHO SAYS GAY KISS WAS CUT IN STAR TREK BEYOND

Simon Pegg, who -wrote the screenplay, had the ia to make Sulu gay.

JOHN CHO WIFE, HEIGHT, BODY MEASUREMENTS, DGHTER, IS HE GAY?

He told The Guardian that the gay uple’s reprentatn is handled well and may be explored upg films. Gee Takei, who me out as gay over a ago and played Sulu Gene Rodnberry’s Star Trek TV seri, said a Facebook post earlier this month that while he was “lighted” there was a gay character, he felt that makg Sulu gay was a twistg of Rodnberry’s origal visn. Takei, an LGBT activist, first learned about Sulu beg gay Star Trek Beyond om Cho, but Takei said he would prefer have a new gay character, rather than Sulu, “sudnly beg revealed as beg closeted.