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HUGE Mr Sulu Spoiler

So is anyone gonna help me out? Is there a full interview somewhere? Are there follow up statements by Saldana where she's incredibly aggressively defensive about criticism she's received?
 
It's like when your dog (or child) presents you with a decapitated pigeon because they love you.

History and context can't BOTH be everything.

2007, when they were casting Sulu is when the producer/writer should have decided if the character was gay, so yes Jotap it is a shortcut, but it doesn't really matter.

Director JJ Abrams (first day of principle photography in 2007) giving direction: "Okay John, John baby, that was perfect, that was perfect, you got this, one thing, sorry, one thing, can you read that line again, just the same, again, don't change anything, but in your mind, I want you to visual sticking a big beautiful cock in your mouth and loving it, tastier than a lollipop made out of crack, but other than that, just the same, just the same: ACTION!"
 
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It's like when your dog (or child) presents you with a decapitated pigeon because they love you.

History and context can't BOTH be everything.

2007, when they were casting Sulu is when the producer/writer should have decided if the character was gay, so yes Jotap it is a shortcut, but it doesn't really matter?

Director JJ Abrams (first day of principle photography in 2007) giving direction: "Okay John, John baby, that was perfect, that was perfect, you got this, one thing, sorry, one thing, can you to read that line again, just the same, again, don't change anything, but in your mind, I want you to visual sticking a big beautiful cock in your mouth and loving it, tastier than a lollipop made out of crack, but other than that just the same, just the same: ACTION!"

What does crack taste like?
 
Quite the tempest in a teacup. They expected Takei to be "flattered". He wasn't. His not being flattered caused drama. He retconned his earlier comments (twice). Now Zaldana has to chime in and tell him off. After all this, it'll be a 30 second scene in a glorified action flick.
Yeah it seems like bad assumptions were made based on George's identity rather than who he actually is, apparently because they never bothered to ask him. Maybe they were trying to surprise him? That wrong assumption has overshadowed the actual thing in the movie, which people don't even care that much about.
 
Yeah it seems like bad assumptions were made based on George's identity rather than who he actually is, apparently because they never bothered to ask him. Maybe they were trying to surprise him? That wrong assumption has overshadowed the actual thing in the movie, which people don't even care that much about.
They did run it by him. Lin, Pegg and Takei have said so.
 
Yeah it seems like bad assumptions were made based on George's identity rather than who he actually is, apparently because they never bothered to ask him. Maybe they were trying to surprise him? That wrong assumption has overshadowed the actual thing in the movie, which people don't even care that much about.

They did ask him. He wasn't thrilled. So they went ahead anyway and tried to pass it off as an homage. Then he really flipped. Then he calmed down and took his flipping out back (mostly). Then Zoe Saldana couldn't leave well enough alone. And here we are.
 
They did ask him. He wasn't thrilled. So they went ahead anyway and tried to pass it off as an homage. Then he really flipped. Then he calmed down and took his flipping out back (mostly). Then Zoe Saldana couldn't leave well enough alone. And here we are.
That's...much worse.
 
I was looking up free data storage last night to sort out my space issues, and Googledrive offers "a lot" of extra space that you can RENT with publicity and dogged servitude (as currency. Agreeing to be cyberconverted into advertising.).

You can either prove that you are promoting their products via an approved method, or upload you personal photographs to google Earth, or seek out and photograph under-represented areas of Google Earth.

I mean, it's kinda getting paid, but it's also kinda slavery.
 
They did ask him. He wasn't thrilled. So they went ahead anyway and tried to pass it off as an homage. Then he really flipped. Then he calmed down and took his flipping out back (mostly). Then Zoe Saldana couldn't leave well enough alone. And here we are.
Why should the previous actor decide who future interpretations of the role are performed? There's nothing wrong with taking input, but they shouldn't get to control the character because they played them first.
 
Why should the previous actor decide who future interpretations of the role are performed? There's nothing wrong with taking input, but they shouldn't get to control the character because they played them first.

"George, a year from now the press is going to ask you what you think about us making Sulu gay. You have a year to figure out the most diplomatically positive thing to say about the decision we have made without you, or you can create a massive turd storm."
 
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