Pixar seemingly thinks that Lightyear bombed at the box office due to a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it same-sex kiss, which led the studio to make changes to Inside Out 2. A spinoff of the successful Toy Story franchise and the studio’s first major movie in theaters in two years following the COVID-19 pandemic, Lightyear became a high-profile flop for Pixar. The film sadly bombed at the box office for several reasons, including a premise too confusing to sell to general audiences and controversy around the decision to recast the iconic voice of Buzz Lightyear. Yet so much media attention was paid to a brief same-sex kiss between Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) and her wife, Kiko. Despite lasting for less than a second, the scene generated a lot of controversy, with one Oklahoma theater chain trying to cut the scene out of showings.
Pixar reportedly thought the Toy Story spinoff bombed due to a brief same-sex kiss, and asked Inside Out 2 animators to make Riley “less gay.” Read More