Amy Schumer wears a Princess Leia bikini costume on the "Star Wars"-themed cover of GQ Magazine's August issue.
The photo features the "Trainwreck" star sucking the finger of a C3PO robot.
Aside from the cover photo of Amy Schumer in Princess Leia's bikini, an image of a topless Schumer, smoking a cigarette between C-3PO and R2-D2 in bed, can also be seen.
While some people might find the photo as half-sexy, half-amusing (given Amy Schumer's reputation for cracking on-point jokes), some "Star Wars" fans tagged the photos as "lame" and "tasteless," taking to social media to call out "Star Wars" parent company, Disney and Lucasfilm.
@CPThrio @icecoldpenguin Lucasfilm & Disney didn't approve, participate in or condone the inappropriate use of our characters in this manner — Star Wars (@starwars) July 16, 2015
Lucasfilm responded via Twitter over the outrage of many "Star Wars" fans: "Lucasfilm & Disney didn't approve, participate in or condone the inappropriate use of our characters in this manner."
"This is not what was intended when the Star Wars trilogy was written," said a spokesperson for Lucas Films said. "If we'd wanted Princess Leia to be a sexy character then we would've written it that way, by, oh, I dunno...making her so hot that even her own brother was attracted to her before he knew he was her brother."
Meanwhile, a rep from Disney expressed their dismay over the sexualization of Princess Leia's character.
"Princess Leia was never supposed to be an object of sexual desire, she was a space girl dressed in a bikini for space reasons: because it's hot in space," the rep said. "This GQ cover is pulling this out of nowhere, implying that fans of Star Wars think of Princess Leia in a slave costume as sexy, which is insane."
In a recent interview with Complex, Schumer talked about the sexualization and objectification of women in Hollywood.
"We're all given this male gaze," she explained. "It's just instilled in us. In every movie, it's still the slow pan from the shoe up the girl's thigh, and we're watching it, like, 'Well, that's not how I look at women.'"
She added, that (society is) "not comfortable with the male form. So it's so funny when we see a guy naked, but when a woman's naked, it's like -" Schumer moans.
