The New Mutants. Specifically, Boone has lambasted Disney, Lucasfilm and director JJ Abrams for what he deems a pandering gay kiss in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.The Rise of Skywalker opened last winter to harsh reviews, though the film did win praise for the inclusion of a brief, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it kiss between two secondary female characters.
For Boone, whose new film features two key queer characters, including that kind of incidental representation“the most embarrassing” type of cynical marketing.Boone tells TooFab, “It was just somebody in the background and [the filmmakers] were like, ‘We’ll put out articles as if this is something you should pay attention to.