Posted on 03/15/2016 4:17:42 PM PDT by drewh
Longtime fans have speculated for years, but a producer of the upcoming Xena: Warrior Princess reboot has confirmed: Xena is gay in the new series.
In a post on Tumblr, the reboot’s screenwriter and executive producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach confirmed that Xena (played in the ’90s by Lucy Lawless) would finally fully explore the not-so-subtle lesbian relationship she had with her sidekick Gabrielle (played in the original series by Renee O’Connor).
“[T]here is no reason to bring back Xena if it is not there for the purpose of fully exploring a relationship that could only be shown subtextually in first-run syndication in the 1990s,” Grillo-Marxuach wrote. “[I]t will also express my view of the world — which is only further informed by what is happening right now — and is not too difficult to know what that is if you do some digging.”
The original series, which ran for six seasons between 1995 and 2001, featured plenty of tender moments between its two female co-leads.
In a 2003 interview with Lesbian News, Lawless said that despite never having been explicitly mentioned on the show, her character was “definitely” gay, and the series’ final scene was proof.
“There was always a ‘Well, she might be or she might not be’ but when there was that drip of water passing between their lips in the very final scene, that cemented it for me,” Lawless said then. “Now it wasn’t just that Xena was bisexual and kinda liked her gal pal and they kind of fooled around sometimes, it was ‘Nope, they’re married, man.’”
Grillo-Marxuach’s Tumblr post came in response to a fan who had asked whether the lesbian character on one of the producer’s other TV shows, The 100, had influenced the writing process on Xena.
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Another show I wont watch.
So what’s different?
Of course, Xena is a dyke.
They just lost any hope of a successful show. Most of the appeal was teen-age boys hoping to see her lose her skirt in a sword fight.
Nobody wants to see a naked lesbian
I wish they would recast the Highlander series, but w/o any gender switcheroos, please.
drew? interesting posts on primary night.
She was just bi in the original, but it was adopted by lesbos as “their show” (and I think is being shown on that gay lesbo network).
This is no surprise but I am pretty sure they are about to find out their target base audience of < 2% of the populace won’t be able to sustain the show.
Maybe her side kick won’t be a porn star ...
Rachel Maddow in a leather battle suit...ewwwwwwwwwww!
Well then, the averages say she would be Morbidly Obese, a drug addict or alcoholic, and a wife abuser, and prone to suicidal events.
You mean another rebooted because hollywood doesn’t have an original thought show you won’t watch.
oh WONDERFUL! its not enough that so many of our real cartoon characters (like in Wash DC and sports and movies and media) are sexually all screwed ... er, ... mixed up
now our imaginary cartoon characters have to “go queer” too?
Hey, when will Donald Duck come out of the closet?
No matter what you do on the stage
Keep it light, keep it bright, keep it gay!
Whether it’s murder, mayhem or rage
Don’t complain, it’s a pain
Keep it gay!
Wait, Xena wasn't gay before?
Thousands of dykes are going to return their DVD sets in disgust.
Actually a considerable part of the original Xena series fanbase were Dykes.
Who didn’t know that?
It’s virtually impossible for Hollywood to conceive of an admirable character who isn’t a homosexual.
Who else was watching it?
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