Literally me when I saw that article on Google talking about how OFMD forgets about being what makes the show "great" and that is it's pirate-ness and I was so pissed like it's a love story between two men!
@@Malpractice101 She was all the headlines while he wanted the spotlight. Any Kate fan isn't going to claim some nonsense he came up with to latch on to that. A Kate fan would be extremely thrilled she's finally being recognized in the US because they know she's as important as any of the top tier performers Americans hold dear. So he is just trying to lasso the spotlight for his project, and should be called out for it. That's all.
I get why people are complaining about him saying when queerness “isn’t shoved in your face” since that’s the same thing that so many homophobic people say when they want to see less queer media. However, I think the point he was trying to make is more of “I didn’t want to make a show where there was the very awkward, unnatural ‘im gay and this is why it’s weird and different’ talk - i wanted to make a queer show where representation isn’t questioned for a single minute, it’s just normal.” Like he’s said that he wants queerness to be normalised SO many times
yes! exactly! I love that he made it so natural and normal and the main focus wasnt that they were gay it was that they were in love! (idk if that makes sense)
@@gorgonzola9373I used to talk a lot about this in the writing world, were people created the genre of LGBTQ books, where the conflict comes from the fact the characters are LGBTQ, were I much rather just reed (or see) a cute and really good love story between 2 people, independent of their gender
I understand it’s more real ig ? Since not everyone in this age is okay with lgbtq but I just more stories with some plot where the gay characters are happy and the biggest plot climax isnt the fact that someone’s gay and someone doenst like that
Exactly. This is the kind of stuff that makes it seem normal. I love queer shows about coming out and stuff, focused directly on the queerness, it's cool, but you'll never get anyone who isn't gay or an ally watching that. With our flag means death it's casually queer, when Mary asks "who's her name?" to Stede and he answers "Ed, his name is Ed." and she doesn't bat an eye that he said "his". When Jim's auntie calls them by a different name and Jim says that they go by Jim now she doesn't mind and just calls them Jim. That's the stuff.
@@youruncleolaf4694 he said queer, not gay, but yes, in his interview for Out. Also, I recommend his interview with the little gold men by vanity fair podcast. Not that he comes out or anything on it. But he really explains well the way he see things and also the way he talks about straight men is interesting and cracks me up 😅 I'm going to risk making the assumption that regardless of actual preferences, I don't think he'd like being called straight very much. 😅
@@lockwie9176 I think there's good odds he'd vastly prefer for people to just go "he hasn't said so we don't know what label goes on him, but we aren't having sex with him so it doesn't matter." Because really, it doesn't matter to anyone who isn't going to potentially have some kind of romantic or sexual relationship with you, right? So why do we insist on picking a label so much when for the vast majority of us it is not and will never be relevant?
Taika's allyship makes me very happy. The effort he makes now is much more important than things he said in the past. There are people out there who seem like perfect allies but have never done a good thing for the queers in their lives... Taika is human, capable of change and mistakes, and actively making the industry better and more inclusive for LGBTQ+ people, and inspiring pride and even kick-starting realisation for queer people through his work. He has changed my life for the better.
A fair few comments on here about whether he has the right to speak for queer people… so… throwing my two cents in. I don’t believe based on various comments he’s made that he identifies as straight, regardless of who he is or has been with. I myself am bisexual but have been in a het relationship for a long time. I do get a bit annoyed personally by LGBT people who question my opinions because I haven’t divulged my full relationship history and they’ve therefore assumed by sexuality based on my partner. Let’s not gatekeep queerness firstly, and secondly can we agree that anyone who is supporting LGBT representation despite the dark turn our world seems to be taking is doing good? 🖤🏳️🌈
Everyone calling him an ally and yet he's never once said that he's straight (and no just cos he's with a woman doesnt make him straight bisexuality exists).
Absolutely agree! He was interviewed for Out magazine and alluded to him being queer. I just didn’t want to cause drama by calling him queer when he hasn’t officially come out (and he has a lot of haters who will dog pile).
he's clearly a man who has been as fed up with crappy, written-for-the-straights queer representation as the rest of us. (And lowkey saying everyone is a bit queer is the softest way of coming out. Because everyone must include you. I did this myself when I was not comfortable directly coming out to my mother as bi. I just enthusiastically pushed the idea that straightness is a myth and everyone is inherently bisexual.) @@YellowSub0
@@Sentientmatter8 Wow I just read the Out magazine article, and it reads undeniably queer. "Everyone is queer" and the absolute joy he expresses in being seen as a queer icon and fighting for representation. We see you Taika!
@@Sentientmatter8Omg, I did the same with my family when I was afraid of coming out at 13 😭 I straight up said that I thought being straight was a social construct and that we're all born bi ☠️
The fact that he mentioned the cameraman with the beautiful eyes but terrible mustache who was his on set crush *twice* makes me so curious as to what that guy looked like :D
As a queer histortian, what makes our flag means death so great is that not only are the characters not making a big deal of being gay, but that's how life actually was on pirate ships! The term "mates" or "mateys" comes from same sex couples on these ships! The only major inaccuracy in this regard is that those on the mainland would be very homophobic, but we see that they are still less accepting than the pirates and other sea-faring individuals. I love the show so much.
Ugh, I love him so much ❤ His allyship just feels so genuine! Like he really just is in our corner. He's got me excited for every project he's got coming out. 🙌🏽
Omg not me getting emotional seeing Taika & Keke Palmer talk about queer representation - two people who haven't had a big moment "coming out", but so clearly are in some way part of the community :')
Damn, the whole season made me laugh and cry. The beginning was HEARTBREAKING, the ending was so heartwarming. I really hope we get a season 3 🤞❤️🏴☠️🧜♂️🧜♂️
taika put what i love so much about ofmd into perfect words. as a lesbian its cool to have media where people are coming to terms with their sexuality (since obviously i experienced that myself) but i hate that most every queer rep has that built in somewhere, or the character suffers in some way for being queer. but in ofmd, they’re gay, and they’re happy, and it just IS!!! they go through heartbreak but not because the world wants to keep them separate for being gay. it’s because stede and ed are both dumb little men (affectionate) who make mistakes like literally anyone else in relationships does
I appreciate his work so much; accept human beings & stop trying bring each other down. We are different & that’s beautiful. We have something in common, and it’s usually good food, at least one good dish. Protect each other, it’s a community we need to learn to coexist better.
I'm so glad my kids are growing up in this generation in NZ. Yes they have a gay Grandad and I raised them to be very accepting and understanding, but I love seeing their friends be just as cool with things. My eldest is trans, and my kids' friends basically just said "ok, cool. What's her name then?" My 2nd's high school has a big fair for pride, and my younger two couldn't give a shit about 'acting like they're supposed to" My youngest chose a black and gold handbag at the shop because he thought it'd be handy for carrying stuff. I love it.
I like that finally someone addressed the fact like bunch of dudes at sea on a boat for months atleast a few MUST have hooked up! I mean it would be part of the appeal of the lifestyle for some men. Gay isn't just a modern thing that showed up its been around forever and I am glad its being addressed. Also those women in history like "oh she's an old maid and that's her companion Sally" THAT'S CLEARLY HER GIRLFRIEND! THANK GOD ITS ACTUALLY ADDRESSED
Ok, but that second clip, I just lost it at the fingertips together gesture because… well, when my youngest was small (no more than 10 or so, she’s 35 now) she damn near made me crash the car one day when she announced out of the blue that she’d “figured out how boys do it together” and I looked over to see her making that gesture. I thought I would die laughing.
I actually really love his work a lot of people are on his ass for Love and Thunder like I didn't like it too but it's clear that he's a good director and actor but Disney is probably on his ass and he couldn't fully do what he wanted with love and thunder people need to understand that not only the director but entire corporation is responsible for the production! I agree with wanting to do something light with love and thunder after everything but it could've been executed better
I absolutely love this attitude - it shouldn't be a "thing" at all! That's 100% what I want in media as well, that it's just casual and normal. Like "this is Marcus and his husband" and that's that, not treated any differently than another character with their partner or love interest.
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I’m glad he made Our Flags Means Death cause these other things he’s talking about, especially Love and Thunder, is just rubbish. Our Flags is great and expresses the heart of his normalization narrative. But love and thunder is the polar opposite; it suppresses queerness, offers it up in crumbs and meaningless bits, mostly palatable to those who wish to overlook queerness and not fully engage with it. A cheap, overdone trick. And if love and thunder were his only foray into queerness I would have called him an impish braggart, but thank goodness Our Flags means death exists.
Omg yes! I could not agree more. Disney and Marvel selling Love and Thunder as ”really gay” was so shitty of them. Like we know Valkyrie is queer but there was nothing queer about the movie. Absolutely nothing. Instead we get a straight romance once again. Like Valkyrie’s sexuality wasn’t actually present in any way, It’s not surprising knowing Disney tho. They don’t actually care about representation, just checking off boxes. They still care way too much about their conservative viewers, producers and countries they sell their movies to
Love and thunder is a blockbuster made for masses. It costs a lot of money so it has to earn a lot too. Producers dont want to risk their conservative audiences refusing to pay to see their product and thus dont give directors as much creative freedom as with projects like Our Flag Means Death. I think of it was up to Taika the representation in Love and Thunder would have been a bigger part of the movie. But sadly mainstream media is not at this point yet. Thats also kinda what Taika was saying here, that he hopes in the future he and others will be able to write various love stories casually and people will just accept it no matter the gender of the characters. Mentioning same-sex relationship in a movie is not as good of representation as showing it ofc but its still does some good for normalizing them. And doing this step will make the next one easier. Please dont just automatically blame creators, there are often more things going on in the background and a lot of limits they have to deal with because of e.g. people paying for the movie having certain rules about what they can show, especially in mainstream media.
@@Garsnoos To be fair tho, I agree with this comment. Its so sucky of disney to act like they are doing so much and to want praise for the smallest things. (Still glad we at least have got these small moments tho since its better than nothing). But I just feel bad when creators are blamed for that even tho they often want to do more but arent allowed to. We have e.g. instances like the owl house and steven universe - they got the representation but the showrunners had to fight hard to get it and also had their shows shortened bc of it. And they were not as big of a scale as blockbusters played in cinemas so there was still more flexibility than with mcu movies.
This exact video came up on my English teacher's UA-cam recommendations in class today and I was amazed (I go to a Christian school), also Taika is the most adorable man I've ever seen.
I always link the whole videos where the clips are from in my description. Those clips are from this Jimmy Kimmel video - ua-cam.com/video/vcwRm3hgThk/v-deo.htmlsi=QX6LMhLrK8yvW4HQ
I sailed on the lady Washington for a while and 85% of sailors, especially tall ship sailors, are queer. So calling it a “pirate show” just sounds like code for “love story between two men” to me
The link to all original videos are in the description in the order they first apear in the video. That clip is from a Jimmy Kimmel Live video titled "Guillermo Plays Spin the Hammer with the Cast of Thor: Love and Thunder"
❤❤ love the series I think it's amazing. And I'm recommending it greatly to people that want to start watching something that's good lgbts background. Also I recommend Roswell New Mexico 2019 both shows are amazing in both shows have amazing representation.
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He hasn’t formally come out. I personally believe that queer people should come out on their own terms and since he isn’t out I didn’t want to speculate on his identity. He has stated “everyone is queer” in the past and he may be bi but I didn’t want to explicitly label his sexuality.
i love him but it really rubs me the wrong way when he thinks he knows whats best for queer people and when he goes on about how its great that gayness isnt "shoved in your face"
i think he's trying to communicate that, in order for equality to happen, we have to be as unfazed by a queer couple on screen as a straight couple. which in my opinion is totally a great way for queer culture to integrate into main stream culture, because if we are constantly held apart or labeled as 'the other' by everyone, there will always be a divide, and Waititi seems to be closing that gap in the way he isn't making a huge deal out of gay characters.
@@astridr4997 yeah i get that but he's skipping a step in a similar way to the "i don't see race" argument. Like no we're not there yet, we need to acknowledge our differences first
I mean he makes a point.... How represented do you feel by disney or Marvel's ham fisted money grab representation vs shows like ofmd. More and more often we're getting dissapoiting or shallow virtue signalling instead of actual representation in media. Take the lazy "queer reveal" in loki in contrast to genuine diversity in jojo rabbit
As a queer person I think he meant that’s it’s not a “coming of age thing” or a struggle or person in denial of their sexuality they’re just simply gay and I love that
It's just overexposure. He's had back-to-back major projects released these past few months and so every entertainment news outlet is using his name for clicks. Just turn off the media noise and consume his content on your own.
Go watch something different and have a break from him then. I mean having a sort of burn-out from something you love is something that happens. The best for you and everyone else is that you move on to something else instead of developing some undue hatred and end up spreading negativity.
Need to work on being a het icon first by not cheating on his pregnant wife with his personal assistant and supporting wifebeaters like depp and fassbender lol
@@yoongitrash2699 He cast Fassbender for his soccer movie he shot in 2019, but the other stuff I'm like 99% sure is made up just to bash him. Like how would this rando on YT know whether he cheated or not, lol. Personally I've not heard of wifebeater allegations against Fassbender & Depp just won a court case regarding those allegations, so..
When did he cheat on his wife? Johnny depp isn’t a wifebeater lmfao and he has never said he supported fassbender he was in 1 movie he made. He made 1 movie you dislike and you decide to spread lies about him? What the hell
taika in every interview: don't call it a pirate show. it is a love story between 2 men!
who just happened to be on a boat 💕
on boats
Literally me when I saw that article on Google talking about how OFMD forgets about being what makes the show "great" and that is it's pirate-ness and I was so pissed like it's a love story between two men!
how is he slaying that moustache???????
5:30 SIR!!!!!
It's not gay if it's between friend. That's true. 😂
Ele é muito estiloso para ser hétero. Um cara hétero não tem a capacidade de ser tão estiloso como o Taika.
By manipulating Kate Bush's popularity for himself? Oh yes sounds like what a gay icon would do tssssss
Lol chill dude. Stop being so miserable. Just be chill and spread good vibrations instead!!! 🥰❤️😘
I fully don't understand this comment
@@Malpractice101 She was all the headlines while he wanted the spotlight. Any Kate fan isn't going to claim some nonsense he came up with to latch on to that. A Kate fan would be extremely thrilled she's finally being recognized in the US because they know she's as important as any of the top tier performers Americans hold dear. So he is just trying to lasso the spotlight for his project, and should be called out for it. That's all.
@@CHAD-fr4hh let people get away with acting like a-holes just because you need to keep the day as shallow as possible? No.
"it's not gay if it's your best friend" LOOKS AT RHYS SUSPICIOUSLY
REALLLL
Yeah sure! And you're still a virgin if you close your eyes 😂
No that makes it precisely more gay loll
I get why people are complaining about him saying when queerness “isn’t shoved in your face” since that’s the same thing that so many homophobic people say when they want to see less queer media. However, I think the point he was trying to make is more of “I didn’t want to make a show where there was the very awkward, unnatural ‘im gay and this is why it’s weird and different’ talk - i wanted to make a queer show where representation isn’t questioned for a single minute, it’s just normal.” Like he’s said that he wants queerness to be normalised SO many times
yes! exactly! I love that he made it so natural and normal and the main focus wasnt that they were gay it was that they were in love! (idk if that makes sense)
@@gorgonzola9373I used to talk a lot about this in the writing world, were people created the genre of LGBTQ books, where the conflict comes from the fact the characters are LGBTQ, were I much rather just reed (or see) a cute and really good love story between 2 people, independent of their gender
@@gisela_oliveiraSO TRUE it’s hard to find good LGBTQ books that don’t use being gay as the main talking point instead of some actual plot
I understand it’s more real ig ? Since not everyone in this age is okay with lgbtq but I just more stories with some plot where the gay characters are happy and the biggest plot climax isnt the fact that someone’s gay and someone doenst like that
Exactly. This is the kind of stuff that makes it seem normal. I love queer shows about coming out and stuff, focused directly on the queerness, it's cool, but you'll never get anyone who isn't gay or an ally watching that. With our flag means death it's casually queer, when Mary asks "who's her name?" to Stede and he answers "Ed, his name is Ed." and she doesn't bat an eye that he said "his". When Jim's auntie calls them by a different name and Jim says that they go by Jim now she doesn't mind and just calls them Jim. That's the stuff.
"Everyone's gay." - Nadja, What We Do in the Shadows
Lover of my life, my lady-wife Nadja ❤
A true icon ❤
If Niel Patrick Harris is the straightest gay man ever then Taika must be the gayest straight man ever.
He never said he was straight.
he said he's a little gay actually. idr where, he was talking about how he doesn't think anyone is completely straight tho
@@youruncleolaf4694 he said queer, not gay, but yes, in his interview for Out.
Also, I recommend his interview with the little gold men by vanity fair podcast. Not that he comes out or anything on it. But he really explains well the way he see things and also the way he talks about straight men is interesting and cracks me up 😅
I'm going to risk making the assumption that regardless of actual preferences, I don't think he'd like being called straight very much. 😅
@@lockwie9176 I think there's good odds he'd vastly prefer for people to just go "he hasn't said so we don't know what label goes on him, but we aren't having sex with him so it doesn't matter." Because really, it doesn't matter to anyone who isn't going to potentially have some kind of romantic or sexual relationship with you, right? So why do we insist on picking a label so much when for the vast majority of us it is not and will never be relevant?
@@TrappedinSLC I mean I agree, but also I've rarely heard someone say the word "straight" with that much contempt 😂
I love this man. His existence just makes the world better.
Yes! But not his movies 😭
Just a great example of an amazing human
@@MT3A he's made great movies. Some people don't like the Thor movie so he's never made a good one? Stupid
@@MistaZULE omg, please don’t call me stupid over a dumb comment a made half a year ago ☹️
@@MT3A sorry.. I didn't mean to be mean. I guess I got carried away
Taika's allyship makes me very happy. The effort he makes now is much more important than things he said in the past. There are people out there who seem like perfect allies but have never done a good thing for the queers in their lives... Taika is human, capable of change and mistakes, and actively making the industry better and more inclusive for LGBTQ+ people, and inspiring pride and even kick-starting realisation for queer people through his work. He has changed my life for the better.
What did he say in the past?
@@kuro2522same question
@@kuro2522yeah I'm curious too
@@ftwillz+
What did he say in the past????
i didn't know that i needed taika waititi to say "soft gay porn" 😂
lol
A fair few comments on here about whether he has the right to speak for queer people… so… throwing my two cents in. I don’t believe based on various comments he’s made that he identifies as straight, regardless of who he is or has been with. I myself am bisexual but have been in a het relationship for a long time. I do get a bit annoyed personally by LGBT people who question my opinions because I haven’t divulged my full relationship history and they’ve therefore assumed by sexuality based on my partner. Let’s not gatekeep queerness firstly, and secondly can we agree that anyone who is supporting LGBT representation despite the dark turn our world seems to be taking is doing good? 🖤🏳️🌈
amen dude
Everyone calling him an ally and yet he's never once said that he's straight (and no just cos he's with a woman doesnt make him straight bisexuality exists).
Absolutely agree! He was interviewed for Out magazine and alluded to him being queer. I just didn’t want to cause drama by calling him queer when he hasn’t officially come out (and he has a lot of haters who will dog pile).
he's clearly a man who has been as fed up with crappy, written-for-the-straights queer representation as the rest of us.
(And lowkey saying everyone is a bit queer is the softest way of coming out. Because everyone must include you. I did this myself when I was not comfortable directly coming out to my mother as bi. I just enthusiastically pushed the idea that straightness is a myth and everyone is inherently bisexual.)
@@YellowSub0
@@Sentientmatter8 Wow I just read the Out magazine article, and it reads undeniably queer. "Everyone is queer" and the absolute joy he expresses in being seen as a queer icon and fighting for representation. We see you Taika!
My heart cannot take him being bisexual. Too much happiness
@@Sentientmatter8Omg, I did the same with my family when I was afraid of coming out at 13 😭 I straight up said that I thought being straight was a social construct and that we're all born bi ☠️
The fact that he mentioned the cameraman with the beautiful eyes but terrible mustache who was his on set crush *twice* makes me so curious as to what that guy looked like :D
Literally!! Also imagine finding out Taika had a crush on you only to be turned off by your mustache baha
@@GingerRootss I would shave it off immediately while crying in front of a mirror lmao 😭😂
@@lara3540SAME 😭
As a queer histortian, what makes our flag means death so great is that not only are the characters not making a big deal of being gay, but that's how life actually was on pirate ships! The term "mates" or "mateys" comes from same sex couples on these ships! The only major inaccuracy in this regard is that those on the mainland would be very homophobic, but we see that they are still less accepting than the pirates and other sea-faring individuals. I love the show so much.
Ugh, I love him so much ❤
His allyship just feels so genuine! Like he really just is in our corner. He's got me excited for every project he's got coming out. 🙌🏽
Omg not me getting emotional seeing Taika & Keke Palmer talk about queer representation - two people who haven't had a big moment "coming out", but so clearly are in some way part of the community :')
The second season of Our Flag Means Death actually made me cry towards the end, which I was 100% not expecting. Great show.
I can't wait to watch final episode of seson 2
Damn, the whole season made me laugh and cry. The beginning was HEARTBREAKING, the ending was so heartwarming. I really hope we get a season 3 🤞❤️🏴☠️🧜♂️🧜♂️
taika put what i love so much about ofmd into perfect words. as a lesbian its cool to have media where people are coming to terms with their sexuality (since obviously i experienced that myself) but i hate that most every queer rep has that built in somewhere, or the character suffers in some way for being queer. but in ofmd, they’re gay, and they’re happy, and it just IS!!! they go through heartbreak but not because the world wants to keep them separate for being gay. it’s because stede and ed are both dumb little men (affectionate) who make mistakes like literally anyone else in relationships does
I’m putting all of my trust in this man.
Amen. They presented it like it was normal, no monologues, no one making a big deal out of it, absolutely gorgeously done.
I appreciate his work so much; accept human beings & stop trying bring each other down. We are different & that’s beautiful. We have something in common, and it’s usually good food, at least one good dish. Protect each other, it’s a community we need to learn to coexist better.
Taika wrote two gay characters into his fix-it fanfic that won him an oscar and that fanfic is called JoJo Rabbit
I'd imagine pirates could easily being gay or bisexual...love the one your with!!!💖💖💖
they WERE. HISTORICALLY THEY WERE SO GAY, PIRATES. Just look up mate-ship.
Anyone really want to see an Addams family movie where he (Taika) plays Gomez Addams? 🥵
I'm so glad my kids are growing up in this generation in NZ. Yes they have a gay Grandad and I raised them to be very accepting and understanding, but I love seeing their friends be just as cool with things. My eldest is trans, and my kids' friends basically just said "ok, cool. What's her name then?" My 2nd's high school has a big fair for pride, and my younger two couldn't give a shit about 'acting like they're supposed to" My youngest chose a black and gold handbag at the shop because he thought it'd be handy for carrying stuff. I love it.
Literally no one: ....
Taika: It's two guys in love who happened to be in a ship.
"Just...stealin hearts" ARREST THIS MAN
Didn't he come out as "not straight, just not labelled" in 2019 or something?
He said ‘we’re all queer’ in a 2022 Out article
Most men would look creepy in a moustachr. He doesnt
I need him and david tennant to interact. I dont care in what way, but my mental health needs it 😭😭
He's just a gem.
It kind of sounds like he had a very emotional reaction to someone’s mustache, and I desperately want to know more
If I knew a man like Taika I might actually live again.
I like that finally someone addressed the fact like bunch of dudes at sea on a boat for months atleast a few MUST have hooked up! I mean it would be part of the appeal of the lifestyle for some men. Gay isn't just a modern thing that showed up its been around forever and I am glad its being addressed. Also those women in history like "oh she's an old maid and that's her companion Sally" THAT'S CLEARLY HER GIRLFRIEND! THANK GOD ITS ACTUALLY ADDRESSED
LETS NORMALIZE
I FEEL THE NORMAL COURSING THROUGH MY VEINS
Ok, but that second clip, I just lost it at the fingertips together gesture because… well, when my youngest was small (no more than 10 or so, she’s 35 now) she damn near made me crash the car one day when she announced out of the blue that she’d “figured out how boys do it together” and I looked over to see her making that gesture. I thought I would die laughing.
I actually really love his work a lot of people are on his ass for Love and Thunder like I didn't like it too but it's clear that he's a good director and actor but Disney is probably on his ass and he couldn't fully do what he wanted with love and thunder people need to understand that not only the director but entire corporation is responsible for the production! I agree with wanting to do something light with love and thunder after everything but it could've been executed better
I absolutely love this attitude - it shouldn't be a "thing" at all! That's 100% what I want in media as well, that it's just casual and normal. Like "this is Marcus and his husband" and that's that, not treated any differently than another character with their partner or love interest.
Omg an unus annus pfp in the wild
@@tessaholman5511 Memento mori, friend 💀
he did say he’s unlabeled queer
:") böyle konuştuğunu gördükçe daha çok seviyorum kendisini, gerçekten normalleştirilmesi hakkında çok haklı, umarım ileride lgbtq+ hakkında daha özgür olabiliriz
A truly self confident heterosexual person like Taika has no issue with the reality of sexual diversity. Plus he’s so adorable
It’s not gay if it’s your best friend 😂
he is such a wonder, this made me adore him even more 💜 and also made me realize i apparently should watch both lightyear and the newest thor 😂
Queries and Kiwis are so handsome and joyful😎
Taika waititi is the Cate Blanchett of Gay guys...
i love this man
I feel like Taika is a person who actually means what he says and as a gay person I would actually feel comfortable being myself around him
“It’s not gay if you’re best friends” my favorite quote from taika
1:35.....yes
I adore this guy!!!! Fun, funny and SEXY AF
I also ship Korg and Blackbeard, 100%! Love Taika!🥰
as a queer kiwi, I love that he's more in my venn diagram - what a king
“happen to be on a boat” x 9000
not bro saying everytime in every interviewe that is a love story between two men😭
I’m glad he made Our Flags Means Death cause these other things he’s talking about, especially Love and Thunder, is just rubbish. Our Flags is great and expresses the heart of his normalization narrative. But love and thunder is the polar opposite; it suppresses queerness, offers it up in crumbs and meaningless bits, mostly palatable to those who wish to overlook queerness and not fully engage with it. A cheap, overdone trick. And if love and thunder were his only foray into queerness I would have called him an impish braggart, but thank goodness Our Flags means death exists.
Omg yes! I could not agree more. Disney and Marvel selling Love and Thunder as ”really gay” was so shitty of them. Like we know Valkyrie is queer but there was nothing queer about the movie. Absolutely nothing. Instead we get a straight romance once again. Like Valkyrie’s sexuality wasn’t actually present in any way, It’s not surprising knowing Disney tho. They don’t actually care about representation, just checking off boxes. They still care way too much about their conservative viewers, producers and countries they sell their movies to
Love and thunder is a blockbuster made for masses. It costs a lot of money so it has to earn a lot too. Producers dont want to risk their conservative audiences refusing to pay to see their product and thus dont give directors as much creative freedom as with projects like Our Flag Means Death.
I think of it was up to Taika the representation in Love and Thunder would have been a bigger part of the movie. But sadly mainstream media is not at this point yet. Thats also kinda what Taika was saying here, that he hopes in the future he and others will be able to write various love stories casually and people will just accept it no matter the gender of the characters. Mentioning same-sex relationship in a movie is not as good of representation as showing it ofc but its still does some good for normalizing them. And doing this step will make the next one easier.
Please dont just automatically blame creators, there are often more things going on in the background and a lot of limits they have to deal with because of e.g. people paying for the movie having certain rules about what they can show, especially in mainstream media.
@@Garsnoos
To be fair tho, I agree with this comment. Its so sucky of disney to act like they are doing so much and to want praise for the smallest things. (Still glad we at least have got these small moments tho since its better than nothing).
But I just feel bad when creators are blamed for that even tho they often want to do more but arent allowed to.
We have e.g. instances like the owl house and steven universe - they got the representation but the showrunners had to fight hard to get it and also had their shows shortened bc of it. And they were not as big of a scale as blockbusters played in cinemas so there was still more flexibility than with mcu movies.
He goes and watches Axl Rose in the Paradise City music video, I’m fucking dead 😂😂. I couldn’t possible love him anymore 😍😍
英語難民すぎて話の内容何も分かんねぇけどTaika監督マジ可愛くて好き
This man is gorgeous.
This exact video came up on my English teacher's UA-cam recommendations in class today and I was amazed (I go to a Christian school), also Taika is the most adorable man I've ever seen.
He's such a precious human being. THANK YOU.
SCHITS CREEK HAS GAY CHARACTERS, BUT ITS INTEGRATED INTO SERIES AND SMALL TOWN HAS NO PREJUDICE ON ANTHING!!😁😁
yes, the mystery evaporates the moment the mask is removed!
ugh i love him so much
Лучший ❤
What is the show where he kissed the guy dressed like Thor. Where he also smashed the eggplant. Is it a talk show?
I always link the whole videos where the clips are from in my description. Those clips are from this Jimmy Kimmel video - ua-cam.com/video/vcwRm3hgThk/v-deo.htmlsi=QX6LMhLrK8yvW4HQ
I sailed on the lady Washington for a while and 85% of sailors, especially tall ship sailors, are queer. So calling it a “pirate show” just sounds like code for “love story between two men” to me
2 Leos doing interviews... its gonna be veeeery entertaining lol
bro i love his accent (and voice) soo muchh
Ikr it's so good ❤
I fucking LOVE OFMD. ❤️🏴☠️🧜♂️🧜♂️
I love him so much ❤️
I’m pretty sure it’s older than the Greeks. They just named it, maybe
2:27 where can you find it
The link to all original videos are in the description in the order they first apear in the video. That clip is from a Jimmy Kimmel Live video titled "Guillermo Plays Spin the Hammer with the Cast of Thor: Love and Thunder"
❤❤ love the series I think it's amazing. And I'm recommending it greatly to people that want to start watching something that's good lgbts background. Also I recommend Roswell New Mexico 2019 both shows are amazing in both shows have amazing representation.
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B/w
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Malex
Michael Guerin/Alex Manes-Guerin
Roswell New Mexico TV 2019
Michael /Alex hold my hand
ua-cam.com/video/juSNFhO8B-k/v-deo.htmlsi=Vd7FTZKYoCUldrdb
Secret love song(malex)
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Stop me
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Save you ( malex)
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Michael/Alex -soulmate
ua-cam.com/video/y8Jk522rREc/v-deo.htmlsi=VB7T_LlRr9LXcEEl
Would you come home( malex) written in Show by Alex for Michael, performed Alex for Michael
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The story
ua-cam.com/video/IpUXUYm49z0/v-deo.htmlsi=3kfqXNaHYIQZohjR
Through your eyes
ua-cam.com/video/o2iZZDbQ6co/v-deo.htmlsi=F6ABB2iKXSPVqLU6
Michael/Alex certain things that I adore
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Good collection of his moments. ❤
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love this guy so much
10:07 love this slideshow
what are these photos of taika at the end
It’s from the interview clip that I used. The original video is linked in the description
“Ally…” the man’s literally bi
He hasn’t formally come out. I personally believe that queer people should come out on their own terms and since he isn’t out I didn’t want to speculate on his identity. He has stated “everyone is queer” in the past and he may be bi but I didn’t want to explicitly label his sexuality.
A National treasure
side eye
шикарен.
There is something very suspect about this man
I think so too hehe
Too bad Taika isn't a comic-book movie icon and isn't Thorfan+ ally.
Oh man this video is so funny now after the tweets.
what tweets?
@@rhymnoceross2349
Taika made some insanely transphobic comments on tweeter back then.
I'll be happy if he stops butchering Thor movies. Other than that he's great
i love him but it really rubs me the wrong way when he thinks he knows whats best for queer people and when he goes on about how its great that gayness isnt "shoved in your face"
i think he's trying to communicate that, in order for equality to happen, we have to be as unfazed by a queer couple on screen as a straight couple. which in my opinion is totally a great way for queer culture to integrate into main stream culture, because if we are constantly held apart or labeled as 'the other' by everyone, there will always be a divide, and Waititi seems to be closing that gap in the way he isn't making a huge deal out of gay characters.
@@astridr4997 yeah i get that but he's skipping a step in a similar way to the "i don't see race" argument. Like no we're not there yet, we need to acknowledge our differences first
Then let’s not assume he knows what’s best. He’s just trying to be a good ally in his own way
I mean he makes a point.... How represented do you feel by disney or Marvel's ham fisted money grab representation vs shows like ofmd.
More and more often we're getting dissapoiting or shallow virtue signalling instead of actual representation in media. Take the lazy "queer reveal" in loki in contrast to genuine diversity in jojo rabbit
As a queer person I think he meant that’s it’s not a “coming of age thing” or a struggle or person in denial of their sexuality they’re just simply gay and I love that
Jojo Rabbit was still a crime tho.
Why has this man pissed me off sm lately
I used to love everything he did
Damn, he did one bad film and suddenly everyone hate him...
It's just overexposure. He's had back-to-back major projects released these past few months and so every entertainment news outlet is using his name for clicks. Just turn off the media noise and consume his content on your own.
I had same experience with RDJ, they're just humans and get tired and we also get tired when they're everywhere, it's OK to pause and not to obsess
Go watch something different and have a break from him then.
I mean having a sort of burn-out from something you love is something that happens. The best for you and everyone else is that you move on to something else instead of developing some undue hatred and end up spreading negativity.
@@lockwie9176 too late
Negativity spread
Need to work on being a het icon first by not cheating on his pregnant wife with his personal assistant and supporting wifebeaters like depp and fassbender lol
when did he cheat on his wife? and when did he support those people? like did he say it on twitter or something
@@yoongitrash2699 He cast Fassbender for his soccer movie he shot in 2019, but the other stuff I'm like 99% sure is made up just to bash him. Like how would this rando on YT know whether he cheated or not, lol. Personally I've not heard of wifebeater allegations against Fassbender & Depp just won a court case regarding those allegations, so..
i need context-
@@soupwantstosleep context: this person made it up.
When did he cheat on his wife? Johnny depp isn’t a wifebeater lmfao and he has never said he supported fassbender he was in 1 movie he made. He made 1 movie you dislike and you decide to spread lies about him? What the hell
Happy to enjoy anything Taika does . Unfortunately he expects me to accept his world view that 2 men kissing is that interesting.
He's not gay
He is an Ally
Pretty sure he called himself queer
either way he's a gay icon w/o being gay; going extra measure to celebrate the community will be celebrated into the community too💁♀️✨
@@augustinemonet1935yep, he did. He also said he's attracted to both men and women but doesn't want to label himself
It would be interesting for him to come up with an lgbtqi oriented movie from a hetero gaze. Like what is “straight camp”
lol here after the tweets 🤣