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.
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- JENNIFER TILLY EXPLAS HOW 'CHUCKY' BEME THE QUEERT SHOW ON TELEVISN: 'IT'S A GIFT TO THE GAY MUNY'
- IS CHUCKY THE NEWT GAY IN?
- THE UPG ‘CHUCKY’ REBOOT IS SO GAY IT’S SRY
- ‘CHUCKY’ SERI FEATUR AN ADORABLE FIRST KISS FOR THIS GAY CHARACTER
- CHUCKY’S TV SERI JT FEATURED S FIRST-EVER GAY KISS
- ‘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
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. * chucky the series gay *
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. 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. 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.
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.
IS CHUCKY THE NEWT GAY IN?
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"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. "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. Horror in and killer doll Chucky is g back for an all-new TV show on Syfy simply tled Chucky, and he'll be joed by a gay ma character.
At Comic-Con@Home, seri creator Don Manci, a gay man, revealed that the protagonist of the seri will be a gay teen named Jake Wheeler who is stgglg wh his sexualy while growg up a small town.
THE UPG ‘CHUCKY’ REBOOT IS SO GAY IT’S SRY
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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. "I thk 's a gift to the gay muny, " she tells Yahoo Entertament, notg that Child's Play creator, Don Manci, 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’ SERI FEATUR AN ADORABLE FIRST KISS FOR THIS GAY CHARACTER
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"Chucky has a huge gay dience, a huge straight dience and a huge kid dience...
Manci has fed his work wh queer reprentatn, om characters who — like himself — are gay to stori about the spectm of genr inty. But the Chucky TV show is the first stallment of the Child’s Play seri wh a gay lead, and the bullyg that Chucky is enuragg Jake to stab his way out of is explicly about Jake’s sexualy.
CHUCKY’S TV SERI JT FEATURED S FIRST-EVER GAY KISS
The gay filmmaker Don Manci troduced the killer doll 1988, and as the “Child’s Play” anchise has evolved, so has s queer sensibily. * chucky the series gay *
Chucky only dispatch Lus after Lus threatens to kill Jake if he talks about beg gay aga.
‘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
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The nflatn of homosexual and homicidal sire is not a particularly progrsive notn, but the show is nscly appropriatg a trope that has suffed the horror genre for s. You uld, fact, go back even further — to Hchck’s Rope (1948) or Strangers on a Tra (1951), which homoeroticism and murr go hand hand.
William Friedk’s 1980 thriller Cisg, about a serial killer targetg gay men at leather bars, ma the nnectn even more directly: the killer’s stabbgs are tercut wh flash of men fuckg. Freddy is an unsubtle metaphor for gayns — the monster Jse’s closet — as he ph the effemate teen away om heterosexual love tert Lisa (Kim Myers) and toward hunky classmate Grady (Robert Rler).
” But the key distctn between Freddy’s Revenge and Chucky is that while the former was wrten wh homophobic tentn, the latter has no qualms about queerns.