00:00Our first hyperspeed test flight is a go.
00:03Who are you talking to?
00:04No, no one.
00:05You were narrating again.
00:06I was not.
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00:14According to one of the producers of Lightyear,
00:16Disney was hesitant about featuring a kiss between two lesbian characters in the film.
00:21The Buzz Lightyear origin tale is Pixar's first animated feature film to include a same-gender kiss.
00:26A producer for the movie told Mercury News that Disney was supportive of the inclusion of a same-sex couple,
00:32character Alicia Hawthorne and her wife, in the film,
00:35but there was definite pushback on having that kiss.
00:38The kiss was initially cut during the creative process amid conversations around intimacy.
00:43But after a March 9th open letter from anonymous Pixar staffers alleging Disney had censored, quote,
00:48nearly every moment of overtly gay affection in past studio titles,
00:52the decision to reverse course was made,
00:54and the kiss featuring Uzo Aduba-voiced character Alicia and her wife was restored.
00:58The producer said,
00:59we got the opportunity to put it back in and that was really exciting.
01:03Lightyear blasts off into theaters on June 17th.
01:06Alicia?
01:07Oh no, that's my grandmother.
01:09But sucks, how long were we gone?
01:10Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.
01:1162 years, 7 months, and 5 days.
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