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

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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. * c3po and r2d2 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.

Jt saw Star Wars and I’m FURIOUS that C3PO and R2D2 still aren’t gay. So a gay droid go through multiple midlife cris and cis to “reboot” his personaly each time only to fd that don’t temper his anxiety? If a gay guy bleach his hair...

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

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Can R2-D2 and C-3PO be nsired a gay uple?

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.

WERE R2D2 AND C3PO A GAY UPLE?

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.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* C3PO AND R2D2 GAY

The Inter has strong opns as to whether C-3PO and R2-D2 are gay – The Pop Culture Experiment .

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