Even Uncle Snoop gets caught off guard sometimes. During a conversation on the It’s Giving podcast, Snoop Dogg revealed that a simple family movie night turned into a moment he never saw coming. The rap legend took his grandson to see Pixar’s 2022 animated film Lightyear, but one particular scene had the young one asking questions Snoop was not quite ready for.
The movie includes a brief moment where Buzz Lightyear’s close friend Alisha Hawthorne is shown building a life with her wife, which features a quick kiss between the two women. Snoop says his grandson was curious right away. “‘They just said, she and she had a baby they’re both women. How does she have a baby?’” the child asked. Snoop admitted he was thrown off, confessing, “I didn’t come in for this s—. I just came to watch the goddamn movie.” The surprise caught him so off balance that he added, “It f—ed me up. I’m like, scared to go to the movies. Y’all throwing me in the middle of s— that I don’t have an answer for.”
The moment ties into the bigger cultural conversation that surrounded Lightyear on its release. Disney and Pixar at first considered cutting the kiss from the film, but brought it back after pushback from employees who said removing it would be censorship. Producer Galyn Susman explained why they fought to keep it in, saying the on screen relationship was always intended to be “loving and inspirational.” Despite that, Lightyear still ended up being banned in countries such as Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. Director Angus MacLane voiced his frustration in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, saying, “The controversy is whether or not you think it’s appropriate for people to love each other. That’s a thing that’s a controversy? I don’t know where to begin on that one.”
For Snoop, it was not about the politics. It was about how to handle the real time questions of a curious child sitting next to him in the theater. As he put it, “These are kids. They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”