Snoop Dogg isn’t ready to answer his grandkids’ questions about the LGBTQIA+ community.
“I took my grandson to see [Lightyear] … Keke Palmer is in that movie. She plays, like, the daughter,” the rapper, 53, recalled during a recent episode of the “It’s Giving” podcast. “So we’re watching it and … down the line [a woman character] had a baby with a woman. My grandson, in the middle of the movie, was like, ‘Papa Snoop, how did she have a baby with a woman?’”
Snoop, who is a grandfather of seven, was referring to a scene in the Toy Story spinoff that showed Buzz Lightyear’s former mission partner, Alisha (voiced by Uzo Aduba) during the time that he had disappeared in space. The montage gave insight into Alisha’s life after Buzz’s disappearance. At one point, she shared a kiss with her wife, and they went on to have a family.
When pressed by his grandson for an answer to the question, Snoop told him to just keep watching the movie. The musician admitted he wasn’t ready to delve into the subject matter.
“I’m scared to go to the movies now,” he quipped. “Y’all throwing me in the middle of s*** that I don’t have an answer for.”
Snoop added that the situation “threw” him “for a loop,” as he wasn’t prepared to have that conversation.
“What part of the movie was this? These are kids. We have to show that at this age?” he added. “They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”
The segment from the podcast interview has since been removed.
When Lightyear premiered in 2022, the inclusion of an LGBTQIA+ character caused controversy among some viewers and the scene was removed at one point. Disney quickly faced backlash for the cut, and the scene was subsequently reinstated. Chris Evans, who voiced the titular character, defended the story line.
“It’s nice, and it’s wonderful, it makes me happy [to have such inclusion],” he told Variety of the controversy in June 2022. “[But] it’s tough to not be a little frustrated that it even has to be a topic of discussion. That it is this kind of ‘news.’”
Evans continued, “The goal is that we can get to a point where it is the norm, and that this doesn’t have to be some uncharted waters, that eventually this is just the way it is. That representation across the board is how we make films.”
