He's said something similar before, and the same goes for casting different races, but I'm betting it's either going to be one of the new characters or someone in the spin off movies, since it wasn't specific whether it'd be in the main series or something like Rogue One.
I know people in fandom have already run with it as evidence that Poe is gay, but as much as I would like that to be true, I don't think it will be.
It's nothing official, just him saying that he would like to include gay characters and thinks they exist in the SW universe. His actual quote:
By Abrams’ logic, the sprawling Star Wars universe couldn’t possibly exist without a gay populace—even if we haven’t seen a single character identified as gay thus far. “I would love it,” he said. “To me, the fun of Star Wars is the glory of possibility. So it seems insanely narrow-minded and counterintuitive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character in that world.”
So, really, nothing confirmed or official, just him saying it could happen.
It's probably still Phasma. There was an article about a year ago announcing she was intended to be a lesbian, but the majority of the fandom missed it.
It would be nice if Abrams included even more LGBT characters, of course and I hope that's what he is suggesting.
I take anything J.J. Abrams says with a grain of salt. I like him and his movies and tv shows, but he's the type of person who has huge ideas that never end up happening because he either gets bored and moves on to the next thing or they somehow fall to the wayside.
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So an official gay character, eh?
(Anonymous) 2016-02-28 02:59 am (UTC)(link)Link: http://www.newnownext.com/star-wars-gay-abrams/02/2016/
(Apologies if this has already been discussed. Don't have much interest in plodding through the tedious wankfest to discover I'm being redundant)
Re: So an official gay character, eh?
(Anonymous) 2016-02-28 03:32 am (UTC)(link)I know people in fandom have already run with it as evidence that Poe is gay, but as much as I would like that to be true, I don't think it will be.
Re: So an official gay character, eh?
(Anonymous) 2016-02-28 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)(It'd be awesome but let's get real here)
Re: So an official gay character, eh?
(Anonymous) 2016-02-28 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)Re: So an official gay character, eh?
(Anonymous) 2016-02-28 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)Re: So an official gay character, eh?
(Anonymous) 2016-02-28 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)Re: So an official gay character, eh?
(Anonymous) 2016-02-28 03:38 am (UTC)(link)By Abrams’ logic, the sprawling Star Wars universe couldn’t possibly exist without a gay populace—even if we haven’t seen a single character identified as gay thus far. “I would love it,” he said. “To me, the fun of Star Wars is the glory of possibility. So it seems insanely narrow-minded and counterintuitive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character in that world.”
So, really, nothing confirmed or official, just him saying it could happen.
Re: So an official gay character, eh?
(Anonymous) 2016-02-28 03:41 am (UTC)(link)Re: So an official gay character, eh?
(Anonymous) 2016-03-01 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)fucking subjunctive will get them every time.
Re: So an official gay character, eh?
(Anonymous) 2016-02-28 03:41 am (UTC)(link)It would be nice if Abrams included even more LGBT characters, of course and I hope that's what he is suggesting.
Re: So an official gay character, eh?
(Anonymous) 2016-02-28 03:49 am (UTC)(link)