They Cut A Lesbian Out Of ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Because We’re Not Allowed Nice Things
At least there's good dinosaur diversity in the film.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom officially has more dinosaur representation than queer representation, after it’s been revealed that filmmakers cut a key lesbian scene from the blockbuster movie.
Jurassic World actress Daniella Pineda revealed in an interview recently that her character, Zia Rodriguez, is totally gay. She’s also probably the best character who isn’t a highly-trained dinosaur.
However, she also revealed that we don’t get any payoff for Zia being a lesbian, because all mention of it was cut from the film.
“I understood why they cut it — for sake of time,” Pineda said in an interview with Build.
“It’s me and Chris Pratt and we are in a military vehicle with all of these mercenaries. I look at Chris and am like, ‘Yeah. Square jaw. Good bone structure. Tall. Muscles. I don’t date men, but if I did, it would be you. It would gross me out, but I would do it.’”
Pineda continued, “It was cool, because it was a little insight into my character.”
A tiny, one sentence insight, and a giant leap for on-screen queer representation at the same time. It’s a shame they couldn’t have cut some of the turgid half-hour long dinosaur chase scenes instead, or the weird bit where Chris Pratt suddenly becomes a punching champion, but oh well.
blue and the t rex really are the lesbian powerhouse couple of jurassic world
— regular fossil (@jerkunderworld) June 16, 2018
lmao apparently they cut the one line in JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM clarifying that one of the characters is a lesbian so, y'know, Hollywood's still doing Hollywood in case anyone needed an update on that.
— Andrew Boyd Allen (@A_B_Allen) June 19, 2018
In wake of the recent news about a supposedly cut lesbian scene from the new Jurassic World, I’d like to admit that I speculated about the character in question, but didn’t want to say anything because I thought I was only thinking about it because I WANTED IT SO BADLY.
— Fallen Kingdom Kristine ??️??? ?? ?? ? (@Lord_Kristine) June 19, 2018
Honestly, how many times do we have to report on queer representation being cut from films? This year alone we’ve had Donald Glover’s achingly handsome Lando Calrissian from Solo: A Star Wars Story canonically confirmed as pansexual, without any on-screen representation to actually back this up, plus Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie from Thor: Ragnarok doing much the same. Then there’s the big gay romance between Grindelwald and Dumbledore in the Harry Potter prequel being downgraded to just a good friendship.
You don’t get points for making your characters gay if we don’t see them fuck on screen! I’m exaggerating, but you get my point — we gotta stop cutting queer characters from films.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is out in cinemas now, 100 percent lesbian free.