The director of 1980s teen classic Pretty Pk has fally given a five answer on whether or not the character Duckie was actually 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
- PRETTY PK SHOCKER: DUCKIE WAS SECRETLY GAY?
- MOLLY RGWALD: PRETTY PK'S "DUCKIE" WAS GAY
PRETTY PK DIRECTOR NFIRMS ONCE AND FOR ALL WHETHER DUCKIE WAS GAY
* duckie was gay pretty in pink *
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.
WAS DUCKIE’S CHARACTER ‘PRETTY PK’ ACTUALLY GAY? MOLLY RGWALD SAYS Y
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. 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.
PRETTY PK SHOCKER: DUCKIE WAS SECRETLY GAY?
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. 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. Rgwald thks Duckie was secretly gay. A day off the news that Molly Rgwald, Jon Cryer and Andrew McCarthy were reprisg their Pretty Pk personali via Twter, now we learn that Rgwald thks the character Duckie was secretly gay.
"Duckie don't know he's gay, " Rgwald tells Out magaze. "I thk he lov Andie the way that [my gay bt iend] always loved me. "John wrote a lot of gay characters, " Rgwald told the publitn.
MOLLY RGWALD: PRETTY PK'S "DUCKIE" WAS GAY
I would say jt about every movie he did, he had a character that easily uld have been gay.
"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.
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