The rapper said he didn’t want to explain queer relationships to his grandson after watching Lightyear three years ago.
The rap legend, 53, appeared on the It’s Giving podcast, where he discussed marriage, parenting, and masculinity. Around the 31-minute mark, he recalled how Pixar’s 2022 film Lightyear left him stumped when his grandson asked about the same-sex relationship featured in the movie. Snoop said that he was thrown off when he found out that the female character Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) was in a same-sex marriage and had children with her wife, Kiko.
“Why my grandson in the middle of the movie like, ‘Papa Snoop, how she have a baby with a woman? She a woman,’” Snoop recalled during his interview.
Lightyear featured a short scene in which it was revealed that Alisha was queer and in a relationship with a woman, and the two share a kiss. For that scene alone, the film was banned in multiple countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The scene also caused a wave of backlash from right-wing political figures in the U.S. who claimed that Disney was specifically “pushing” a pro-LGBTQ+ agenda.
