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- JENNIFER TILLY EXPLAS HOW 'CHUCKY' BEME THE QUEERT SHOW ON TELEVISN: 'IT'S A GIFT TO THE GAY MUNY'
- ‘CHUCKY’ IS BACK… THIS TIME WH YOUNG GAY PROTAGONIST, JAKE; IT’S A HORROR CULT-CLASSIC MEETS BURGEONG GAY LOVE ON USA/SYFY TV SERI
- IS CHUCKY THE NEWT GAY IN?
- ‘CHUCKY’ SERI FEATUR AN ADORABLE FIRST KISS FOR THIS GAY CHARACTER
- CHUCKY’S TV SERI JT FEATURED S FIRST-EVER GAY KISS
- CHUCKY CREATOR ON GAY CHARACTER JAKE AND BOYIEND DEVON SEASON TWO
- THE UPG ‘CHUCKY’ REBOOT IS SO GAY IT’S SRY
JENNIFER TILLY EXPLAS HOW 'CHUCKY' BEME THE QUEERT SHOW ON TELEVISN: 'IT'S A GIFT TO THE GAY MUNY'
Tilly says there's been no "backlash" to the show's storyl volvg gay and genrfluid characters. * is jake from chucky gay irl *
Chucky is changg the horror game once the latt, fifth episo of the Chucky TV seri, Jake, the 14-year-old gay protagonist got his first kiss, and uldn't have happened a better and his iend Devon have been gettg closer all season, dancg around their feelgs.
‘CHUCKY’ IS BACK… THIS TIME WH YOUNG GAY PROTAGONIST, JAKE; IT’S A HORROR CULT-CLASSIC MEETS BURGEONG GAY LOVE ON USA/SYFY TV SERI
Chucky is back jt time for Halloween, this time a new TV seri "Chucky," on USA/SYFY, wh an almost equal foc on 's 14-year-old gay protagonist * is jake from chucky gay irl *
The two actors are perfectly adorable, brgg to life a young first gay kiss. 1634695696The Chucky TV seri, which airs on Syfy and the USA work, is created by Don Manci, the gay man who origally started the Child's Play movie anchise.
IS CHUCKY THE NEWT GAY IN?
You've heard of a fal girl horror, but a fal boy is g to the genre. Who is Jake on 'Chucky'? He's one of the few openly gay horror hero. * is jake from chucky gay irl *
He wanted to make the star of this new Chucky seri gay orr to brg some much need reprentatn to the horror genre. Christe is another a bullied kid gets supernatural revenge, you know, none of those movi has a sgle gay character them. His protagonist, Jake Wheeler (Zackary Arthur), is a 14-year- old gay boy and doll llector who fds Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) at a yard sale.
So I thk 's good to give kids who are horror fans someone to intify wh, " he for his film reer, Manci, 58, found the horror genre to be "a hospable place" for him as a young gay man startg out his 20s -- although he adms he was "relatively discreet" around stud executiv about his inty. Particularly as a gay guy, " he says.
‘CHUCKY’ SERI FEATUR AN ADORABLE FIRST KISS FOR THIS GAY CHARACTER
The posssed doll basilly shouted "gay rights" the new SYFY seri, and fans nnot handle . * is jake from chucky gay irl *
RELATED | Syfy's Chucky Will Have a Gay Protagonist. Executive vice print for drama seri at NBCUniversal Televisn and Streamg, Alex Sepl explaed, “When he told about centerg this chapter of the story on a gay teen and how personal that was to him, we embraced the notn.
In his new seri, Chucky go out of his way to show his allyship, gog so far as to murr our young hero Jake Wheeler's (Zackary Arthur) homophobic father Le (Devon Sawa) at the end of the first episo.
Chucky killg Jake's homophobic father and tellg Jake that he has a queer kid of his own who he's ol wh (bee he's "not a monster") are jt scratchg the surface. " So the fale, when Chucky Prime lash out one fal time by cricizg Devon and Jake for beg "so gay" before Jake strangl him to ath, 's not as hateful as uld be. "When he says 'That's so gay, ' 's almost like I n say that to one of my gay iends bee we're both gay, " Manci explas.
CHUCKY’S TV SERI JT FEATURED S FIRST-EVER GAY KISS
* is jake from chucky gay irl *
"I love tryg to keep h, but also jt the rponse to that I've heard om young gay horror fans, and that's who we did that for, was to give young queer horror fans reprentatn the lead a show, " Manci says. Sce s premiere on Syfy and USA last month, Chucky has emerged as arguably the queert seri on mastream televisn, wh multiple storyl featurg gay and genrfluid example, the show's teenage hero, Jake (Zackary Arthur), has a ser csh on another boy at school, Devon (Björgv Arnarson) — feelgs that turn out to be reciproted.
CHUCKY CREATOR ON GAY CHARACTER JAKE AND BOYIEND DEVON SEASON TWO
As the first Child’s Play stallment wh a gay lead, the new TV seri Chucky, airg now on Syfy and USA, is reclaimg a trope that’s dogged the slasher genre for s: that of the queer-d villa. * is jake from chucky gay irl *
"I thk 's a gift to the gay muny, " she tells Yahoo Entertament, notg that Child's Play creator,, is an out gay screenwrer. Chucky and Tiffany's child was origally glimpsed the closg moments of Bri of Chucky, but the next film officially tablished them as genrfluid — one of the many elements that ed the stud to reject Manci's script as "too gay.
I happen to love , but was so mpy and so gay; I mean, we had John Waters playg a pervy paparazzi! "I have a iend wh tw boys that are eighth gra, and one of them is gay, " she says. "He thks I'm the greatt person on Earth, bee I'm on a show where the lead character is gay!
And 's jt treated as a matter of fact thg: the whole show isn't about Jake beg gay. "Chucky has a huge gay dience, a huge straight dience and a huge kid dience...
THE UPG ‘CHUCKY’ REBOOT IS SO GAY IT’S SRY
The gay filmmaker Don Manci troduced the killer doll 1988, and as the “Child’s Play” anchise has evolved, so has s queer sensibily. * is jake from chucky gay irl *
Chucky is back jt time for Halloween, this time a new TV seri “Chucky, ” on USA/SYFY, wh an almost equal foc on 's 14-year-old gay protagonist Jake, portrayed by Zackary Arthur, as is do lvg to the backstory of Charl Lee Ray, the serial killer spir habg the Chucky doll.
Chucky himself has a queer, genrfluid child Glen/Glenda, and relat to Jake's LGBTQ experience through that relatnship, even gog so far as to separate homophob as “monsters”.
“Chucky” foc jt as much killg as other slashers, the kills are fely part of what draws an dience, but the te heart of the seri li Jake's navigatn of his climate as a young, gay man, the good and the bad.
Chucky’s TV seri jt ma a major leap forward terms of LGBTQ+ reprentatn by featurg s first-ever gay kiss. * is jake from chucky gay irl *
Acrdg to Manci, an out gay man, “[Jake] was always tend to be gay, ” Manci told NewNowNext. “I've been puttg a lot of gay elements to the movi sce 1998's ‘Bri of Chucky' and beme creasgly important to me, partly bee I saw so many LGBTQ fans rpond favorably. Chucky himself has a queer, genrfluid child Glen/Glenda, and relat to Jake's LGBTQ experience through that relatnship, even gog so far as to separate homophob as “monsters” the ey of a posssed, murro doll.
“It's probably somethg many gay guys, particularly of my generatn, n intify wh, ” Manci said. “a very sweet, PG-13 teen puppy love kd of thg we see other genr that pict 8th grars and their burgeong romantic terts, but we don't get to see often wh 14-year-old gay boys. “This a very sweet, PG-13 teen puppy love kd of thg we see other genr that pict 8th grars and their burgeong romantic terts, but we don't get to see often wh 14-year-old gay boys, ” Manci said.
Chucky creator Don Manci has teased the return of the horror TV h - and the storyle volvg gay characters Jake and Devon. * is jake from chucky gay irl *
He's one of the few openly gay horror Oct. ETSource: SyFyMost fans of horror are aware of the famo gay them that are woven throughout A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge. " Jake Wheeler (played by Zackary Arthur) is the latt boy to be stuck wh the serial killer–turned–Good Guy doll, and if that's not difficult enough, he's also a 14-year-old openly gay stunt grapplg wh his own sexualy.
His father, Le Wheeler — played by Fal Dtatn's Devon Sawa — is not too keen on Jake's artistic sensibili, which as we know is for not fortable wh his gay son.
In an terview wh Logo's NewNowNext, Manci said, "It’s probably somethg many gay guys, particularly of my generatn, n intify wh. "Article ntu below advertisementSource: SyFyIt was always Manci's tentn for Jake to be gay. As an openly gay man himself, he already rporated LGBTQ characters the anchise.