Former Pixar employees are opening up about particulars associated to the trans storyline that was minimize from Disney’s upcoming sequence, Win or Lose.
Forward of the vacations, Disney introduced that it was eradicating the storyline for a transgender character to let dad and mom “focus on sure topics with their youngsters on their very own phrases and timeline.”
Chatting with the Hollywood Reporter in regards to the storyline, former trans assistant editor at Pixar, Sarah Ligatich, gave her perspective as somebody who consulted on the episode.
“Disney has not been within the enterprise of constructing nice content material,” she mentioned. “They’ve been within the enterprise of constructing nice income. Even way back to two years in the past after I was at Pixar, we had a gathering with [then-CEO] Bob Chapek, they usually have been clear with us that they see animation as a conservative medium.”
One other nameless former worker mentioned of the state of affairs that it’s “very irritating that Disney has determined to spend cash to not save lives” and that the episode is “so lovely—and fantastically illustrated among the experiences of being trans—and it was actually going to save lots of lives by exhibiting those that really feel alone and unloved, that there are individuals on the market who perceive.”
Ligatich additionally gave a shoutout to Netflix, who revived and launched the movie Nimona that’s centered round queerness, after Disney scrapped it. Ligatich mentioned that Netflix “is very happy to host content material that tells genuine LGBTQ tales. That’s actually the way it’s going to go shifting ahead, is you’re going to see lots of indie studios pop as much as inform tales.”
Win or Lose premieres on Disney+ on Feb. 19, 2025. The sequence will heart on a co-ed center college softball group and the experiences of gamers main as much as a championship sport.