I read about this once, about where he was still very shy and closed about being gay, while basically everyone else on the team was aware and were perfectly fine with it. The day he told them everyone was like, no worries we already knew.
No clue IIRC but I found it a nice story.wait, was the actor gay or the character? I always assumed the character, because it was always “Sulu is gay” not “[actor’s name] is gay”.
So, it depends.
The actor George Takei is gay. Sulu in the Kelvin timeline is also gay. IIRC, Takei was mad about that detail because he always played Sulu as straight.
But hey, we can chalk that up to the multiverse being a strange place.
Takei was mad about that detail because he always played Sulu as straight.
I would be, too. It kind of shits all over his job as an actor.
I don’t think I’d be upset. He played Sulu well and I’m sure he know it. But now you can can have gay character on tv or in a movie and Star Trek has always been inclusive. And we’re re-doing the original so we’re not planning on slapping in new characters. Honestly Sulu kept being Takai in so many people’s minds that gay Sulu works well.
