This is the 27th post a daily seri. Read about here and see the list of prev posts here. A new post about "Star Wars" will be posted every day for 40 days leadg up to the anchise's 40th birthday on May 25th. When J.J. Abrams said last year that he expected gay characters to play…
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- 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. * gay c3po *
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.
THE INTER HAS STRONG OPNS AS TO WHETHER C-3PO AND R2-D2 ARE GAY
“We told him about the character’s homosexual clatns but not to make too visibly “open”, due to the producers reticence.