Snoop Dogg admitted that he’s “scared to go to the movies” after seeing a same-sex couple represented onscreen while taking his grandson to see Disney’s Lightyear: “I didn’t come here for this s–t.”
Snoop Dogg Slams LGBTQ+ Representation in Kids Movies
Snoop Dogg’s latest comments are raising eyebrows.
After taking one of his seven grandchildren to see Disney’s Lightyear, the “Gin and Juice” rapper recalled being shocked to see an LGBTQ+ couple represented on the screen.
“It’s like, I’m scared to go to the movies now,” Snoop said on the Aug. 20 episode of Sarah Fontenot’s It’s Giving podcast. “Y’all throwing me in the middle of s–t that I don’t have an answer for.”
During one scene in the 2022 Toy Story spinoff, female character Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) notes that she has a wife. The couple is later shown kissing and goes on to welcome a son.
“It threw me for a loop,” he continued. “I’m like, ‘What part of the movie was this?’ These are kids. We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”
Indeed, the 55-year-old said that the moment sparked many questions from the little one.
“My grandson, in the middle of the movie, like, ‘Papa Snoop, how she have a baby with a woman,’” he recalled. “She a woman.”
And in response, Snoop simply said at the time, “Hey man, watch the movie.”
But in reality, he was thinking to himself, “Oh s–t. I didn’t come here for this s–t. I just came to watch the goddamn movie.”
E! News has reached out to Snoop’s rep for further comment and has not heard back.
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Lightyear’s representation of a same-sex couple caused quite a bit of controversy at the time of its release, with countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates banning it altogether.
At one point, the scene was even cut from the film, per Variety, before it was later added back following former CEO Bob Chapek’s apology for the company’s silence surrounding Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.”
“Speaking to you, reading your messages, and meeting with you have helped me better understand how painful our silence was,” Chapek wrote in a March 2022 email to employees. “It is clear that this is not just an issue about a bill in Florida, but instead yet another challenge to basic human rights.”
“You needed me to be a stronger ally in the fight for equal rights and I let you down,” he continued. “I am sorry.”
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