Now it’s official, Vera (also known as Velma in VO) is attracted to women. Long portrayed as straight, the cartoon’s iconic nerd in dark glasses and an orange sweater. Scooby Doocomes out as a lesbian in the new movie of the franchise: Scooby-Doo Trick or Treat!.
In this feature film, which will premiere on HBO Max on October 16 for Halloween, Véra explicitly falls under the spell of a criminal named Coco Diablo, confirming fans’ suspicions of Scooby Doo for decades.
“I remember getting the role of Velma in 2008. It was my first big movie role. I also remember thinking, ‘I wonder if they know they cast a lesbian to play Velma?’ Here we are, 14 years later… …😂”, he reacted On twitterr, actress Hayley Kiyoko who plays Vera in the Brian Levant-directed Scooby-Doo TV movies in 2000.
A topic regularly discussed by the creators.
Vera’s homosexuality is far from being a secret for fans of Scooby Doo. And it turns out that the different creators of the series had also spent more than twenty years trying to portray the sexual orientation of this character.
In 2020, James Gunn, who wrote the first films Scooby Doo in live-action, he said on Twitter that he had “tried” to turn Vera into a young lesbian.
“Back in 2001, Velma was explicitly gay in my initial script. But the studio kept watering it down and watering it down, making it ambiguous (in the filmed version) and then non-existent (in the released version) to finally be photographed with a boyfriend (in the sequel) “, he wrote on Twitter.
A situation confirmed by Daphne’s interpreter in the movies, Sarah Michelle Gellar, who remembers having filmed a kiss scene with Linda Cardellini (Véra), as reported. assigned.
A spin-off series about Vera
Tony Cervone, series supervising producer built-in mysteryAlso in the past he had already confirmed Vera’s homosexuality.
“I’ve said this before, but Velma on ‘Mystery Incorporated’ isn’t bi. She’s gay. We always planned for Velma to act a little bit out of character when she was dating Shaggy (Sammy), because this relationship wasn’t right for her and had a hard time expressing why,” she wrote on Instagram during Pride Month in 2020.
Véra will soon be the subject of a spin-off series on HBO Max. It remains to be seen whether this programme, called Velma it will openly deal with the character’s sexual orientation or not.
Source: BFM TV
