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Music sensation Snoop Dogg has seen it all, but even the rap legend didn’t expect Pixar’s Lightyear to shake him up in a way that it did. What was supposed to be a fun movie night with his grandson turned into an awkward Q&A that left the hip-hop icon side-eyeing his local theatre visits. After his grandchild questioned a short queer kiss featured in the film, Snoop Dogg admitted that the experience made him “scared to go to the movies” altogether, a surprisingly candid confession from a man who usually keeps things chill.
Talking about the film during the It's Giving podcast, the rapper said,
“What you see is what you see, and they’re putting it everywhere. They’re like, ‘She had a baby — with another woman.’ Well, my grandson, in the middle of the movie is like, ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman!'”
Snoop Dogg then adds that the moment threw him off for a moment as he continued,
“I’m like, scared to go to the movies. Y’all throwing me in the middle of sh-t that I don’t have an answer for… It threw me for a loop. 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.”
Although his candid confession was taken lightly by many, it has also opened some complicated conversations among fans who are calling the actor out for his alleged ignorance towards queer relationships. This isn't, however, the first time Pixar's Lightyear has come under fire for its depiction of queer relationships. Ever since its release, the film has seen progressive comments from many and discourse from others.
The controversy surrounding Pixar's Lightyear and how Snoop Dogg brought it back
When Pixar released Lightyear in 2022, nobody expected the loudest conversation to orbit around a kiss shorter than a sneeze. But that’s exactly what happened. Instead of audiences debating Tim Allen vs Chris Evans or whether Buzz really needed a gritty origin story, the world zeroed in on a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment of intimacy between Alisha Hawthorne and her wife. A moment that lasted seconds, yet managed to break the internet, expose Disney’s uneasy relationship with queerness, and even got the film banned in 14 countries.
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Bans rolled in from countries across the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The film and the featured kiss were debated across forums and news channels. Meanwhile, within Disney, employees accused the studio of hypocrisy, pointing out that the kiss was reportedly cut during production, only to be reinserted after public backlash to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Florida, according to The Independent.
But the real story wasn’t about Buzz, or even Disney. Snoop Dogg's comments bring back the controversy and interrogate whether fans and viewers are really ready to accept queerness in movies made for children. Although it remains a controversial topic with varying opinions from both sides, Snoop Dogg's recent comments reinforce the difficult conversation again.
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