Theater Threatened to Skip 'Lightyear' Kissing Scene Between Two Women
Lightyear.The 89′er Theater in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, initially posted a sign indicating to customers that it would be fast-forwarding through the short scene early in the film, which hit theaters on Friday.
As of Tuesday, a local Fox affiliate, Fox 23 News, reported that the sign had been taken down and that the theater intended to play the film all the way through.Starring Chris Evans in the lead role, Lightyear is a new spin-off of Pixar's Toy Story series, presented as the sci-fi adventure film that the Buzz Lightyear toyline in the previous films is based on.
Early in the film, a montage encompassing several decades plays out, during which Lightyear's close friend, voiced by Uzo Aduba, briefly shares a kiss with her wife during a family gathering.Fox 23 reported that the sign came down before the theater ran any showings of the film with the scene skipped over.
The reasoning for why the theater put up the sign and then backtracked so quickly is not currently known.Several moviegoers who spoke to the local Fox affiliate said that they had no issues with the scene, with some noting its short length and others praising the depiction of different kinds of families."Watching it, it was no big deal," Jill Stuever, who took her two sons to see the film, said. "It was like two seconds.
