Pretty Pk director says Duckie was not supposed to be gay

Contents:

• PRETTY PK DIRECTOR NFIRMS ONCE AND FOR ALL WHETHER DUCKIE WAS GAY
• WAS DUCKIE’S CHARACTER ‘PRETTY PK’ ACTUALLY GAY? MOLLY RGWALD SAYS Y
• MOLLY RGWALD: PRETTY PK'S "DUCKIE" WAS GAY
• WHAT DO IT MEAN IF DUCKIE OM ‘PRETTY PK’ WAS GAY?
• 'PRETTY PK' AT 35: DIRECTOR HOWARD DTCH ON FILM'S FAMO LOST ENDG AND MOLLY RGWALD'S THEORY THAT DUCKIE WAS SECRETLY GAY
• MOLLY RGWALD AND JON CRYER DISAGREE ABOUT WHETHER DUCKIE FROM ‘PRETTY PK’ WAS GAY
• PRETTY IN PKGATE: IS DUCKIE GAY? JON CRYER RPONDS

PRETTY PK DIRECTOR NFIRMS ONCE AND FOR ALL WHETHER DUCKIE WAS GAY

The director of 1980s teen classic Pretty Pk has fally given a five answer on whether or not the character Duckie was actually gay. Fans of the film, wrten by John Hugh, have long sce speculated that the character – played by Jon Cryer – was gay. Molly Rgwald, who played Andie Walsh the cult classic, has said she always saw him as gay too.

But the film’s director Howard Dtch has put the speculatn to bed, sayg he never saw Duckie as gay. Pretty Pk director Howard Dtch don’t thk Duckie was gay. When asked if the character was gay, Dtch told Yahoo Entertament: “I don’t thk that, but I mean I n see where some people uld perceive like that.

The character’s sexualy was brought to sharp foc 2012 when Rgwald told Out magaze that Duckie was gay, but didn’t know . “I thk he lov Andie the way that [my gay bt iend] always loved me, ” she said.

WAS DUCKIE’S CHARACTER ‘PRETTY PK’ ACTUALLY GAY? MOLLY RGWALD SAYS Y

Actor Jon Cryer said the character was not tend to be gay. Jt e the gaydar is gog off, don’t mean your stments aren’t flty. John Hugh' beloved 1986 classic movie 'Pretty Pk' featured a love triangle between Andie, Blae and Andie's bt iend Duckie (played by Molly Rgwald, Andrew McCarthy and Jon Cryer, rpectively) the end, Andie choos Blae, but a recent terview, Rgwald said that was only natural sce she believ the Duckie character was actually gay -- somethg Cryer talkg wh, Rgwald said that two endgs for the movie were actually shot -- one which she end up wh Blae, and another which she and Duckie lived happily ever after.

MOLLY RGWALD: PRETTY PK'S "DUCKIE" WAS GAY

The latter endg bombed wh screeng dienc, and Rgwald, who currently stars ABC Fay’s 'The Secret Life of the Amerin Teenager, ' claims to know why:Duckie don’t know he’s gay. I thk he lov Andie the way that [my gay bt iend] always loved me... Jt bee the gaydar is gog off don't mean your stments aren't flty.

WHAT DO IT MEAN IF DUCKIE OM ‘PRETTY PK’ WAS GAY?

Thirty years on, Phil “Duckie” Dale is no longer a movie character but a nstellatn of archetyp and aspiratns—high school inoclast, ’80s dream boyiend (send only to "Say Anythg's" Lloyd Dobler and his boombox), smart(er) romantic choice (“Team Duckie” t-shirts are way easier to fd and probably sell a lot more than the “Team Blane” alternative”), knowg cultural signifier (the movie’s 25th anniversary DVD is lled the “Everythg’s Duckie” edn) and gay in. Molly Rgwald | Photo Creds: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagicMolly Rgwald, '80s movie teen queen, thks that Duckie, her ostensible love tert Pretty Pk, was gay.

"Duckie don't know he's gay. I thk he lov Andie the way that [my gay bt iend] always loved me.

'PRETTY PK' AT 35: DIRECTOR HOWARD DTCH ON FILM'S FAMO LOST ENDG AND MOLLY RGWALD'S THEORY THAT DUCKIE WAS SECRETLY GAY

"Y, she said that the guy whom Duckie was based on was gay. But never all my years of watchg have I ever stopped to wonr about whether or not Duckie, Andie’s angsty, Otis Reddg croong, bicycle ridg BFF (who, now that I do thk about , was an obv precsor to My So-Called Life’s Brian Krakow), was gay.

Acrdg to Molly Rgwald, he was one of the many gay characters who Hugh clud his work — even if wasn’t somethg that the two ever discsed she recently told Out magaze: “Duckie don’t know he’s gay. “Jt e the gaydar is gog off, don’t mean your stments aren’t flty. And yet, I n’t help but be trigued by the ia that Hugh tentnally clud closeted gay characters his movi — until now, the equent e of the word “fag” his ovre was the only real ditor I had that homosexualy even crossed his md.

MOLLY RGWALD AND JON CRYER DISAGREE ABOUT WHETHER DUCKIE FROM ‘PRETTY PK’ WAS GAY

While that kd of sual homophobia was certaly more prevalent the ’80s, don’t exactly spire much nfince what Rgwald is sayg. What if Cameron Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or Brian The Breakfast Club were actually tend to be gay? Rgwald thks Duckie was secretly gay.

”In 2012, Rgwald told Out magaze that she thought the flamboyant-leang Duckie was actually secretly gay.

PRETTY IN PKGATE: IS DUCKIE GAY? JON CRYER RPONDS

“Duckie don’t know he’s gay, ” Rgwald said at the time. “I thk he lov Andie the way that [my gay bt iend] always loved me. Rgwald, who's now 44 and stars ABC Fay's "The Secret Life of the Amerin Teenager, " has often said she prefers Andie and Blae together, and several tim the last few years she's gone as far as sayg that Duckie was gay.

"Duckie don't know he's gay, " Rgwald told Out magaze. "I thk he lov Andie the way that [my gay bt iend] always loved me.