Molly Rgwald: Pretty Pk's "Duckie" Was 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 SAYS DUCKIE FROM ‘PRETTY PK’ IS GAY, AND SHOULD’VE END UP WH A ‘CUTE GUY’
• WHAT DO IT MEAN IF DUCKIE OM ‘PRETTY PK’ WAS GAY?
• MOLLY RGWALD: PRETTY PK'S "DUCKIE" WAS GAY
• 'PRETTY PK' DIRECTOR HOWARD DTCH ON FILM'S FAMO LOST ENDG AND MOLLY RGWALD'S THEORY THAT DUCKIE WAS SECRETLY GAY
• JON CRYER SAYS 'PRETTY PK' CHARACTER NOT GAY
• PRETTY IN PKGATE: IS DUCKIE GAY? JON CRYER RPONDS
• MOLLY RGWALD Q&A ON THE REAL-LIFE DUCKIE & JON CRYER’S ‘GAY VIBE’
• DONALD DUCK WILL GET ITS FIRST LBIAN CHARACTER DUE TO THE APPEAL OF A TEN YEAR OLD GIRL: ‘MY PARENTS ARE GAY. BUT ‘DUCK CY’ IT’S AS IF THEY DON’T EXIST AT ALL’
• 'DUCK DYNASTY' STAR WILLIE ROBERTSON IS 'TRYG TO FIGURE OUT' IF BEG GAY IS A CHOICE

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.

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

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.

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. 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.

MOLLY RGWALD SAYS DUCKIE FROM ‘PRETTY PK’ IS GAY, AND SHOULD’VE END UP WH A ‘CUTE GUY’

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. EntertamentMolly Rgwald is pretty sure that Duckie om 'Pretty Pk' is gay. Bee om Rgwald’s perspective, she believ that Duckie is gay.

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

Molly Rgwald thks that Duckie om ‘Pretty In Pk’ is gay and should have end up wh a guy. “Duckie don’t know he’s gay, ” Rgwald tells Out Magaze (via The Huffgton Post.

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

) “I thk he lov Andie the way that [my gay bt iend] always loved me. Jon Cryer don’t thk his character Duckie is gay but stead effemate. “Y, she said that the guy whom Duckie was based on was gay.

Jt e the gaydar is gog off don’t mean your stments aren’t flty.

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

JON CRYER SAYS 'PRETTY PK' CHARACTER NOT GAY

I thk he lov Andie the way that [my gay bt iend] always loved me.

PRETTY IN PKGATE: IS DUCKIE GAY? JON CRYER RPONDS

“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.

While that kd of sual homophobia was certaly more prevalent the ’80s, don’t exactly spire much nfince what Rgwald is sayg.

MOLLY RGWALD Q&A ON THE REAL-LIFE DUCKIE & JON CRYER’S ‘GAY VIBE’

What if Cameron Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or Brian The Breakfast Club were actually tend to be gay? Molly Rgwald | Photo Creds: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagicMolly Rgwald, '80s movie teen queen, thks that Duckie, her ostensible love tert Pretty Pk, was gay.

DONALD DUCK WILL GET ITS FIRST LBIAN CHARACTER DUE TO THE APPEAL OF A TEN YEAR OLD GIRL: ‘MY PARENTS ARE GAY. BUT ‘DUCK CY’ IT’S AS IF THEY DON’T EXIST AT ALL’

"Duckie don't know he's gay. "Y, she said that the guy whom Duckie was based on was gay.

'DUCK DYNASTY' STAR WILLIE ROBERTSON IS 'TRYG TO FIGURE OUT' IF BEG GAY IS A CHOICE

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

Your ner ‘80s teenager may have been ncerned earlier this week, when Molly Rgwald spoke wh Out about her rol as the Brat Pack Queen, and revealed that John Hugh wrote a gay character jt about every movie he ma — even if he never me right out and said so. For Pretty Pk, that means a send look at Duckie (played by Jon Cryer), whom Rgwald outed: “Duckie don’t know he’s gay, ” she told the magaze.

But spe Rgwald’s sistence, the one cliche he didn’t really have his films was the gay sikick (at least not openly), which now sentially standard most teen romantic-edi.