“That’s the most famous lesbian in the world. We just lost her.” — Kevin Smith.
Kevin Smith revealed that his 1997 movie “Chasing Amy” upset “the most famous lesbian in the world”: Ellen DeGeneres.for the documentary “Chasing Chasing Amy,” Smith, 54, discussed the LGBTQ+ community’s reaction to the film, which follows a male comic artist, played by Ben Affleck, who tries to woo a lesbian, played by Joy Lauren Adams.responded. “Believe me, I’ve had 22 years to get used to that. I got used to that on the f—ing first week it came out. There were some people that were upset.
DeGeneres, 66, came out of the closet the same year that “Chasing Amy” was released. She dated Heche (whoSmith, being a straight man, acknowledged that making a movie that some critics said set lesbian identity backwards was problematic.But Sav Rodgers, a queer filmmaker, actually had a positive experience watching “Chasing Amy.” Rodgers even did a Ted Talk in 2018 about how the film “saved his life,” which led to him becoming the director of the new documentary.
“Look, anything that keeps these movies alive for a current generation, I’m all okay with,” he explained. “Even if every documentarian wanted to revisit the movies and be like, ‘Here’s why they’re bad,’ at least it puts those movies a current audience as opposed to racking them with old black-and-whites. For somebody to be like, ‘We’re going to take a look at your work in the modern era,’ it means that, for at least a minute, that movie’s relevant again.
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