“While speaking at an A24 social media event, Pillion director Harry Lighton shared that, not only was his gay awakening Groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons, he hoped to make a biopic about the foul-tempered cartoon Scotsman at one point.” www.them.us/story/pillio…
— Matt Zoller Seitz (@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social) February 27, 2026 at 11:25 AM
– Yup, Groundskeeper Willie, in the iconic “Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Baadasssss Song,” when Willie has Lunchlady Doris grease him up to chase Santa’s Little Helper through the ductwork. “Something about his accent, his ginger beard, and his body made me look up and go, ‘Oh, I like the look of that.’”
– He once pitched a live-action Groundskeeper Willie biopic, with Fassbender in mind.
– His other queer influences and favorite queer moments are The Triplets of Belleville, The Traitors, the films of Céline Sciamma, Fucking Amal, and 120 BPM.
