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'
- ‘CHUCKY’ SERI FEATUR AN ADORABLE FIRST KISS FOR THIS GAY CHARACTER
- THE MA CHARACTER THE NEW ‘CHUCKY’ SERI IS GAY, AND CHUCKY IS TOTALLY COOL WH IT
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. * gay characters in chucky series *
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’ SERI FEATUR AN ADORABLE FIRST KISS FOR THIS GAY CHARACTER
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.
THE MA CHARACTER THE NEW ‘CHUCKY’ SERI IS GAY, AND CHUCKY IS TOTALLY COOL WH IT
"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. 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.