Linda Cardellini Praises Lesbian Velma, Desires Third Scooby Doo Movie

From one Velma to the one other, Linda Cardellini is celebrating the brand new “Scooby-Doo” animated film, “Trick or Deal with Scooby-Doo!,” for formally making Velma a lesbian. Followers have lengthy speculated that Velma was homosexual, nevertheless it wasn’t till the most recent animated movie that the character was seen explicitly crushing on one other feminine character named Coco Diablo. Velma has googly-eyes each time Coco comes round or is talked about.

“Velma has been round since 1969,” Cardellini instructed Leisure Weekly. “I simply went trick or treating with my daughter and there have been a whole lot of Velmas on the market, so I really like that she nonetheless has this place in tradition that’s kind of at all times energetic for decade. And I really like — you already know, I believe [her being a lesbian has] been hinted at so many occasions, and I believe it’s nice that it’s lastly on the market.”

Cardellini starred as Velma in two live-action films: 2002’s “Scooby-Doo” and 2004’s “Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed.” Each movies co-starred Matthew Lillard as Shaggy, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne and Freddie Prince Jr. as Fred.

Would Cardellini return as Velma in a 3rd “Scooby-Doo” film? “Oh God, yeah!” she instructed Leisure Weekly. “[But] I’m most likely too outdated.”

Cardellini’s two live-action “Scooby-Doo” films have been written by James Gunn, greatest identified at present because the director behind Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie trilogy and DC’s “The Suicide Squad” movie and “Peacemaker” tv sequence. Gunn revealed in 2020 that he needed to make Cardellini’s live-action Velma explicitly homosexual within the live-action films, however the studio didn’t let him.

“In 2001, Velma was explicitly homosexual in my preliminary script,” Gunn wrote on Twitter. “However the studio simply saved watering it down and watering it down, changing into ambiguous (the model shot), then nothing (the launched model) and at last having a boyfriend (the sequel).”

Cardellini is presently making the press rounds in assist of the third and ultimate season of Netflix’s darkish comedy “Lifeless to Me,” which debuts Nov. 17 on the streaming platform.