C-3PO Was Based On Gee Lus's "Gay Friend"

Contents:

• C-3PO WAS BASED ON GEE LUS’S “GAY FRIEND”
• THE INTER HAS STRONG OPNS AS TO WHETHER C-3PO AND R2-D2 ARE GAY

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. “We told him about the character’s homosexual clatns but not to make too visibly “open”, due to the producers reticence.

THE INTER HAS STRONG OPNS AS TO WHETHER C-3PO AND R2-D2 ARE GAY

He surprised by takg a gay Brish accent which we believed was jt pure geni, that’s how the character took place and is ankly one of the most popular characters of the seri wh his pann R2-D2, as everybody knows” he acknowledged. Abrams has also revealed a recent terview that the newt episo of the anchise would be troducg a major new gay character to the Star Wars Universe. Next article Sdi Arabia: Famo Racehorse to be Executed for Beg Gay.

Two weeks ago, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the fal stallment the space opera’s third trilogy, buted to lacklter reviews and watered down a much-anticipated queer moment: a brief and unrwhelmg gay kiss. He proved that gays are not a monolh and n, fact, show up early. Openly gay Brish actor Anthony Daniels, who plays the droid all films, is 5-foot-9.