The stars of the latt Star Trek film stand behd s revelatn that long-standg character Sulu is gay, spe beg scribed by one of the show's origal actors as "unfortunate".
Contents:
- GEE TAKEI REACTS TO GAY SULU NEWS: “I THK IT’S REALLY UNFORTUNATE”
- HAS STAR TREK'S SULU ALWAYS BEEN GAY? IT'S COMPLITED
- SULU IS GAY IN 'STAR TREK BEYOND,' MAKG FRANCHISE HISTORY
- ‘STAR TREK BEYOND’ NFIRMS THAT HIKA SULU IS GAY
- GEE TAKEI LLS 'STAR TREK BEYOND' GAY SULU SCENE 'A WHISPER'
- STAR TREK ACTORS STAND BEHD GAY SULU REVELATN
- GEE TAKEI CALLS 'STAR TREK BEYOND' 'S GAY SULU 'REALLY UNFORTUNATE'
- STAR TREK BEYOND: GEE TAKEI CALLS GAY SULU "REALLY UNFORTUNATE"
- SIMON PEGG: I RPECTFULLY DISAGREE WH GEE TAKEI OVER GAY SULU
- GEE TAKEI REACTS TO GAY SULU NEWS: 'I THK IT'S REALLY UNFORTUNATE'
- SIMON PEGG CLARIFI GAY SULU CONCERNS WH ‘STAR TREK’ CANON EXPLANATN
- MAKG ‘STAR TREK’S’ SULU GAY IS A LAME MOVE BY BAD SCREENWRERS
- BOLDLY GOG: HOW 'STAR TREK' AND A GAY SULU GAVE ME THE COURAGE TO COME OUT
- SIMON PEGG: I “RPECTFULLY DISAGREE” WH GEE TAKEI ON GAY SULU
GEE TAKEI REACTS TO GAY SULU NEWS: “I THK IT’S REALLY UNFORTUNATE”
On Thursday, the Herald Sun revealed that Hika Sulu will be revealed to be gay "Star Trek Beyond," which hs theaters July 22. * gay sulu *
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.
HAS STAR TREK'S SULU ALWAYS BEEN GAY? IT'S COMPLITED
Acrdg to 'Star Trek Beyond,' the helmsman of the Starship Enterprise is nonilly gay. * gay sulu *
“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. 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. Cho said was bound to e out that his character was gay, and “what should he do?
SULU IS GAY IN 'STAR TREK BEYOND,' MAKG FRANCHISE HISTORY
* gay sulu *
“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.
‘STAR TREK BEYOND’ NFIRMS THAT HIKA SULU IS GAY
Actor and scriptwrer for Star Trek Beyond fends cisn to reveal character is a same-sex relatnship, sayg dience would fer that he was always gay – and that ‘we are all LGBT somewhere’ * gay sulu *
On Thursday, the Herald Sun announced that the character Hika Sulu will be revealed to be gay Star Trek Beyond, which hs theaters July 22. Gee Takei, who played Sulu the origal show and who has been a proment LGBT activist sce g out as gay jt over a ago, told the Hollywood Reporter that he has been agast revealg the character as gay sce he first heard was unr nsiratn last year. “I’m lighted that there’s a gay character, ” Takei told THR.
He believed ma more sense to create a new character who has always been gay, rather than brgg Sulu out of a prumed closet. ” But he also exprsed a ncern, which he discsed wh L and -wrer Doug Jung, that a new gay character may have been perceived by the dience as a token gay character, “primarily fed by their sexualy.
” Pegg believ Rodnberry’s cisn not to velop a gay character earlier was a product of his time, not of his visn.
GEE TAKEI LLS 'STAR TREK BEYOND' GAY SULU SCENE 'A WHISPER'
Hollywood imposg gayns on Sulu is offensive not only on a social-cultural level, ’s sultg on a creative level. * gay sulu *
” Based on the movie’s timele, the cisn to make Sulu gay do not necsate his havg been the closet, Pegg explas, and prum that there has been an LGBT prence sce the begng of the anchise’s universe.
STAR TREK ACTORS STAND BEHD GAY SULU REVELATN
Hika Sulu is now known as the first openly gay character Star Trek, but the character's sexualy hasn't always been so clear-cut. In 2005, 36 years after Star Trek: The Origal Seri end, Sulu's origal actor, Gee Takei, publicly me out as gay. Wantg to honor this legacy, Simon Pegg me up wh the ia of havg Sulu be gay J.
John Cho supported the ia, as did Zachary Quto, the actor who played Spock and who publicly me out as gay 2011. Why Takei Was Upset That Sulu Beme Gay. Takei publicly disagreed wh wrer and Stty actor, Simon Pegg about the plan to make Sulu gay.
GEE TAKEI CALLS 'STAR TREK BEYOND' 'S GAY SULU 'REALLY UNFORTUNATE'
While he wholeheartedly supported the cln of LGBTQ+ characters Star Trek, he thought a new character should be created stead of makg Sulu nonilly gay. Pegg was also wary of Takei's advice to create a new character simply to fulfill the purpose of havg a gay character, as he thought that would lim the character to tokenism.
Was Sulu Gay In The Wir Star Trek Canon? The fact that his dghter existed many of the novels and gam don't preclu the possibily that Sulu might be gay.
Abrams' Star Trek exist on different timel, 's possible to say that both a straight Sulu and a gay Sulu exist as part of the multiverse's non. One of the “Star Trek” universe’s most beloved characters is revealed to be gay the latt stallment of the inic anchise.
STAR TREK BEYOND: GEE TAKEI CALLS GAY SULU "REALLY UNFORTUNATE"
“I liked the approach, which was not to make a big thg out , which is where I hope we are gog as a speci, to not policize one’s personal orientatns, ” he and Pegg’s cisn to pict Sulu as a gay man was a nod to Gee Takei, who played the role the origal 1960s “Star Trek” televisn seri and six subsequent films, Cho said.
Takei, 79, me out as gay 2005, and has sce gone on to bee an outspoken advote for LGBT rights.
SIMON PEGG: I RPECTFULLY DISAGREE WH GEE TAKEI OVER GAY SULU
UPDATE: After news of this story broke, Takei lled the cisn to pict Sulu as a gay man “really unfortunate” a Hollywood Reporter terview.
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.
GEE TAKEI REACTS TO GAY SULU NEWS: 'I THK IT'S REALLY UNFORTUNATE'
The reboot versn of Sulu is gay, we learned "Beyond, " the third of the new movi. Takei has said publicly he is agast the ia of Sulu beg gay, and he had plenty to say about here at the 50th anniversary Star Trek nventn Las Vegas.
Takei would have preferred for the reboot filmmakers to create a new gay character.
" Takei says he has agreed to disagree on the issue of gay Sulu wh the movie's -wrer Simon Pegg, wh whom he has exchanged emails. Image source, PAImage ptn, Simon Pegg (send left) receiv a kiss om Chris Pe at Star Trek Beyond's UK premiereThe stars of the latt Star Trek film have stood behd s revelatn that long-standg character Sulu is gay.
SIMON PEGG CLARIFI GAY SULU CONCERNS WH ‘STAR TREK’ CANON EXPLANATN
"I'm lighted that there's a gay character [ the film], " the 79-year-old told the Hollywood he claimed the "outg" of Hika Sulu was "a twistg" of Gene [Rodnberry]'s creatn, "to which he put so much thought" said Star Trek creator Rodnberry "was a strong supporter of LGBT equaly" but had always envisned Sulu as heterosexual.
MAKG ‘STAR TREK’S’ SULU GAY IS A LAME MOVE BY BAD SCREENWRERS
The actor - who went on to play Sulu the six Star Trek films ma between 1979 and 1991 - announced he was gay source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Gee Takei (left) and John Cho share the role of Sulu, helmsman of the Starship EnterpriseSpeakg on Tuday before Star Trek Beyond's UK premiere, Simon Pegg said the revelatn about Sulu's sexualy "don't change Gee's Sulu any way". "I was worried bee I knew [Gee] was a gay man who had played a straight character, " he told the BBC.
"Quto, who is also openly gay, add: "The LGBT (Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr) muny has long advoted for reprentatn the Star Trek universe.
Out actor Gee Takei is not happy that the big-screen versn of his Star Trek character is gay.
BOLDLY GOG: HOW 'STAR TREK' AND A GAY SULU GAVE ME THE COURAGE TO COME OUT
“I’m lighted that there’s a gay character. Takei also revealed that he had suggted to Rodnberry back 1968 that the socially md science-fictn seri should explore the gay equaly nversatn.
He also said that the cisn to make his character gay me om director Jt L and wrer (and -star) Simon Pegg, who wanted to honor Takei.
SIMON PEGG: I “RPECTFULLY DISAGREE” WH GEE TAKEI ON GAY SULU
But stead of beg met wh excement and support, Cho was met wh opposn, as Takei tried to nvce him to make a new character gay stead.