Could Le Skywalker Be Gay? Mark Hal Weighs In - Gayety

Contents:

• IS LE SKYWALKER GAY? MARK HAL OPENS UP ABOUT 'STAR WARS' CHARACTERS' SEXUALY
• 'OF COURSE' LE SKYWALKER IS GAY, CONFIRMS MARK HAL, ECHOG THOANDS OF FAN-FICTN PRAYERS
• COULD LE SKYWALKER BE GAY? MARK HAL WEIGHS IN
• LE MACFARLANE: GAY LOVE GETS ITS HOLLYWOOD ENDG
• IS LE JAM GAY? KNOW HIS EARLY LIFE, RELATNSHIPS AND MORE
• ‘IS LE ON MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT GAY?’ FANS THK SOMETHG IS UP AFTER HE SAYS HE’S ‘REPULSED’ BY WIFE
• 'OF COURSE' LE SKYWALKER IS GAY, CONFIRMS MARK HAL, ECHOG THOANDS OF FAN-FICTN PRAYERS

IS LE SKYWALKER GAY? MARK HAL OPENS UP ABOUT 'STAR WARS' CHARACTERS' SEXUALY

Abrams, director of the seventh and most diverse Star Wars film the seri, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, has said as much, and wants gay characters troduced future stallments of the seri. However, a newly troduced gay character Star Wars might not necsarily be the first.

"They say to me, 'Could Le be gay? If you thk Le is gay, of urse he is.

"Is Le Skywalker Gay? "A gay character the biggt anchise the universe, one lked to so many childhoods and formative to what kids thk of as right and wrong, wouldn't que be the same as blowg up a Death Star, but would be close, " Eli Keel wrote for Salon.

'OF COURSE' LE SKYWALKER IS GAY, CONFIRMS MARK HAL, ECHOG THOANDS OF FAN-FICTN PRAYERS

Moreover, wh Abrams' on-the-rerd ph, a gay character the Star Wars universe seems a matter of when, not if. "So seems sanely narrow-md and untertuive to say that there wouldn't be a homosexual character that world.

The fact that Star Wars' latt director and one of s actors want gay reprentatn is important — and should be seen not as the last step, but an important first one. Heard me out as gay. There are a handful of absolute laws nature: matter n be neher created nor stroyed; every actn has an equal and oppose reactn; and any TV or movie character has, at some pot, been serted to suatns of roilg homoerotic tensn by posers of fan-fictn.

gay? thk Le is gay, of urse he is. For all we know, the impendg eighth stallment uld fally answer the qutn of what gay clubs are like...

COULD LE SKYWALKER BE GAY? MARK HAL WEIGHS IN

Let’s stop sayg Le is gay. Gay or straight, Le is an abive partner. By llg him gay, I worry that the ter is llectively ratnalizg his behavr.

’ They say to me: ‘Could Le be gay? And Hal’s nod to The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams refers to an terview wh The Daily Beast where the director shared his own views on gay characters a galaxy far, far away.

When asked if we would see gay characters Star Wars one day, his rponse was swift, but to this day he’s yet to liver a proment queer character the anchise. When I talk about clivy ’s not excludg gay characters.

LE MACFARLANE: GAY LOVE GETS ITS HOLLYWOOD ENDG

So seems sanely narrow-md and untertuive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character that world.

Could Le Skywalker Be Gay? The rebels gay.

The recent ntroversy over whether or not Le Skywalker is gay is not even the begng of . Mark Hal, who played Le, suggted an terview at the time that Le uld be gay.

IS LE JAM GAY? KNOW HIS EARLY LIFE, RELATNSHIPS AND MORE

Vany Fair reported that Hal said "of urse" Le is gay. They say to me, 'Could Le be gay?

In an article tled "Do Not Make Le Skywalker Another Tragic Gay Character, " Emmet Asher-Perr wrote "If he were sudnly revealed as a gay character li of all that, his sexualy uld be perceived by the dience as tragedy.

Asher-Perr put Le Skywalker the ntext of Dumbledore om the Harry Potter anchise, who had been retnned as homosexual, which add layers of untentnal meang to the already tablished bgraphy of the character. William Shatner, who played the inic Star Trek Capta Kirk, wad to the ntroversy over a potentially gay Le 2021, when he poted out that Le got married to a woman Star Wars. And ’s a subject at the heart of ‘Bros’; a razor-sharp, hilar, and groundbreakg film — the first romantic edy about two gay men by a major Hollywood stud.

‘IS LE ON MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT GAY?’ FANS THK SOMETHG IS UP AFTER HE SAYS HE’S ‘REPULSED’ BY WIFE

The hotly anticipated movie, released theaters today, was -wrten by gay edian Billy Eichner, who also stars as New York-based podster Bobby, and ‘Fettg Sarah Marshall’ scribe Nick Stoller, who also directs. The boy-meets-boy story go somethg like this: Crotchety, cynil Bobby spots sweet, shirtls probate lawyer Aaron — played by Hallmark hunk Le Macfarlane — a gay club, and the two relatnship skeptics slowly lower their guards and fall love. “There’s a b of a misnceptn that gay men wish they were women on some level, and I have nversatns wh my mother explag the difference between genr inty and sexualy.

We’ve had die gay rom-s before, and a few on streamg platforms, but none supported by the full weight of the Hollywood big stud mache. But among the served praise, cludg for s entirely LGBTQ+ prcipal st, there has been some cricism that ‘Bros’ — shootg for box office-iendly, mass appeal; and wh two straight men Apatow and Stoller alongsi Eichner at s helm — has had to tone down the gay experience to be palatable for a straight dience. “I did see one headle that lled a ‘sterilized’ gay portra, to which I say when was the last time you saw a movie wh multiple three-ways and four-ways?

I thk a weird way we have bee so ed to seeg gay films that foc on the sufferg, the closet, the illns, so ’s almost shockg that we get a real love story.

'OF COURSE' LE SKYWALKER IS GAY, CONFIRMS MARK HAL, ECHOG THOANDS OF FAN-FICTN PRAYERS

Bee I n’t remember another gay movie that let the gay uple be happy. And for me, another strength of the movie (which has been attacked as somethg ak to ‘gaysplag’ by a few cril voic the muny) is the way tght me a ltle more, through humor, about the challeng facg gay men as they navigate the world of love and relatnships.