Lauren Gunderson is standing firmly behind her work on Pixar’s Lightyear after Snoop Dogg criticized the animated movie’s inclusion of a same-sex couple.

The acclaimed author, who earned a further screenplay materials credit score on the 2022 film, fired again at Snoop in a collection of Threads posts. After a commenter flagged the rapper’s latest remarks, Gunderson bluntly replied, “He sucks.”

She added a notice of optimism in one other submit. “Snoop was great during the Olympics,” she wrote. “Hopefully he joins the side of Love :).”

Her feedback arrived simply days after Snoop prompted main controversy throughout an interview on the It’s Giving podcast. The rapper recalled taking his grandson to see Lightyear and admitted he was uncomfortable when requested by the boy concerning the lesbian couple portrayed within the movie.

“Oh s##t, I didn’t come in for this s##t. I just came to watch the g###### movie,” Snoop stated. “These are kids. We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”

In the film, a pair, house ranger Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) and her spouse Kiko, grew to become some of the talked-about features of the film. A kiss between them was briefly minimize from the film, however it was later reinstated following backlash. Gunderson stated she was the one who initially created their storyline within the script’s early drafts.

“I created the Lightyear lesbians,” she defined. “In 2018, I was a writer at Pixar — such a cool place, grateful to work there, learned a ton from kind and impressive creatives. As we wrote early versions of what became Lightyear, a key character needed a partner, and it was so natural to write ‘she’ instead of ‘he.’ As small as that detail is in the film, I knew the representational effect it could have. Small line, big deal. I was elated that they kept it. I’m proud of it. To infinity.”

Although she clarified that she had “very little to do with” the completed screenplay, Gunderson stated she was proud her contribution remained. “I was proud to see a happy queer couple (even for a few seconds) on screen,” she wrote. “I know they got a lot of s##t for this inclusion, but stuff like this matters because beautiful love like this exists. It’s not fiction. What is fiction is Zurg and lightspeed space travel and murderous aliens and a talking robot cat.”

She additionally pushed again at claims that the movie injected sexual content material. “What sex? It was a happy marriage that was depicted,” she instructed one commenter. “You are making it about sex.”

Representatives for Snoop Dogg haven’t publicly responded to Gunderson’s remarks

Snoop did make a remark the place he apologized.

“I was just caught off guard and had no answer for my grandsons. All my gay friends no (sic) what’s up. They been calling me with love. My bad for not knowing the answers for a 6 yr old,” he stated on Twitter (identified additionally as X). “Teach me how to learn I’m not perfect.”

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