Director says idea for gay character in 'Neighbors 2' came from journalist

LOS ANGELES, May 6 (UPI) -- A probing question from a journalist helped Neighbors 2 director Nicholas Stoller become aware he has never included gay characters into his movies.

Speaking with Yahoo Movies, Stoller said the decision to make Dave Franco's character, Pete, come out as gay was an "organic" one after the exchange.

"I was like, 'I don't know why. I literally don't know. I have no good answer for that," Stoller told Yahoo about answering the reporter at a press junket for Neighbors. "So this seemed like an organic way to have that happen."

Stoller also claims to have harvested the "homoerotic tension" built up during the original film for the sequel. In Neighbors, for instance, the climactic ending showed Franco's character confessing his love to Teddy before running away from a dangerous frat party.

"I was so excited," the actor reportedly told Yahoo at ComiCon. "Even though I'm not on screen for a significant amount of time, hopefully it will be very memorable. And of course I was excited to try something new with my character while still maintaining his essence."

Regarding his own experience and LGBT-friendly views, Stoller told Vulture "at the end of the day, we're all bisexual," when asked whether spending so much time with Zac Efron and Franco in the films made him question his sexuality.

"A hundred years from now, there's not gonna be gay or striaght," he said at the time. "There's gonna be everything."