Kevin Smith reveals Ellen DeGeneres walked out of Chasing Amy over lesbian depiction

Kevin Smith revealed that his 1997 movie “Chasing Amy” upset “the most famous lesbian in the world”: Ellen DeGeneres.In a clip 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.“Do you understand why certain LGBTQ people may not like ‘Chasing Amy?'” Smith was asked in the clip.“Yeah, of course.Absolutely,” the famous director 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.”“The biggest blowback, and God’s truth, that I heard, felt, and was told about was when they told me that Ellen and Anne Heche went to see Chasing Amy, and it was reported that they walked out in the first half hour,” Smith revealed.He added, “And us being like, ‘Well, that’s the most famous lesbian in the world.

We just lost her.That means we’re never getting on The Ellen Show.'”DeGeneres, 66, came out of the closet the same year that “Chasing Amy” was released.

She dated Heche (who died in a car accident in 2022) from 1997 to 2000.Smith, 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.

“The spirit of Chasing Amy kept me alive for years to come despite the suicidal thoughts that began to permeate from the trauma that I was continuously experiencing at school,” Rodgers said in the TED Talk.“No matter what I was dealing with, I had this one movie to bring me solace.” The “Chasing Amy” documentary premiered last year at the Tribeca Film ...