The New Mutants direction Josh Boone has called the gay kiss in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker “embarrassing”.Discussing his upcoming comic book film with IndieWire, the filmmaker explained how a gay love story that acts as “sort of the spine and focus of some of the character-driven stuff in the film.”The New Mutants will feature a love story between characters played by Maisie Williams and Blu Hunt, which Boone called “probably the first one at Disney for sure” and “one of the first superhero movies that really has one that’s an integral part of the plot and story and the whole thing hangs on it.”Mentioning Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as a counter-example, in reference to a moment at the end of the film where a secondary female.