Celebrity Wars sequel ‘The Acolyte’ writer Leslie Headland responds to critics

The writer of the controversial Disney+ “Star Wars” show “The Acolyte” is criticizing those who say her show is “woke” propaganda featuring “lesbian space witches,” dismissing the complaints as “reductive.” Have given.

Leslie Headland, “the first openly gay person” to create a significant Celebrity Wars project, according to The Hollywood Reporter (THR), said of this future inauguration that the reaction the show is receiving for the issues it inspires has inspired the inauguration. He explained that he did not in any way intend to produce a performance with an explicit political agenda, although it does contain some LGBTQ messages.

“I don’t believe I’ve created a weirdo with big Q content,” Headland advised the leisure outlet.

“Star Wars: The Acolyte” has proven to be one of the most divisive entries in the Celebrity Wars franchise since its debut on Disney’s streaming platform prior to this date. Despite the bump with critics – including a recent Rotten Tomatoes rating of 85% among skilled film critics – its target market rating is 14%, the lowest rating in that segment among all Celebrity Wars content.

The Disney-owned film franchise has recently been criticized by fans who claim that the company has adopted “woke” stories and characters, with fans citing “The Acolyte” as its most inspired film to date. The slogan has been given.

The show already has LGBTQ validation, which has now created a viral future where a journalist from The Wrap told Headland and non-binary series superstar Amandla Stenberg during an interview that the show is “arguably the most Gay is Star Wars.”

Although she and the actor were surprised by the question, Headland explained that it was not something she was aiming for. Nonetheless, he approved of the characterization, saying, “To be honest, I’m into it.”

During her latest interview with THR, Headland gave the impression of being vulnerable to mood, giving one of the most telling reactions to her interview with The Wrap.

“I was surprised by the question,” she said. “Amandla and I started laughing out loud because that was our immediate reaction to being asked that, but honestly, I don’t know what ‘lesbian’ means in that sense.” What does the word mean? I can’t believe I made queer stuff with a big Q.”

Headland also discussed a controversial storyline in episode 3 of “The Acolyte”, which was intended to set off critics’ worst fears about open LGBTQ promotion being part of the show.

The narrative in question involved two tough witches belonging to an entirely female population disrupting power witchcraft in order to produce their own female offspring, the dual primary characters of the performance performed by Stenberg.

In social media circles, disgruntled enthusiasts began mocking the sequence for making “lesbian space witches” part of the Celebrity Wars canon.

Headland criticized the case study, beginning with, “They’re in a matriarchal society. As a gay woman, I knew it would be read that her sexuality was queer, but there were no men in her community either. In such a situation, closeness between them would be natural. It seemed plot-driven.”

“I would say calling him gay is really insulting. I think it means you’re not really paying attention to the story,” he said.

Headland reiterated that despite the fact that she is not making an LGBTQ series, she is fixated on the “queerness” of the show.

“I’m proud to be a gay woman who has achieved this, and of course, if my content is called queer, I don’t want to negate whatever queerness is on the show. I would be proud to create something that inspires gay people,” he said.

The writer also criticized fans who perceive the show’s broadcast of LGBTQ issues as a counterproductive factor, saying, “Honestly, I’m saddened that people would think that if something was gay, it would be bad. It saddens me that a group of people on the Internet would somehow destroy what I consider to be the most important art ever made.”

Fox Information Virtual’s Christine Grounds contributed to this record.