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Sixteen Candles' Gedde Watanabe On Why He Wasn’t Offended By Stereotypical Role As Long Duk Dong
CinemaBlend via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoGedde Watanabe as Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles. Japanese-American actor Gedde Watanabe had a...
‘Sixteen Candles’ Actor Gedde Watanabe Says He Didn’t Think Long Duk Dong Role Was “Racist”
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoOver the past couple of decades, John Hughes’ Sixteen Candles has been seen in a new light, with...
Gedde Watanabe Says He Didn't Find His “Sixteen Candles” Role Long Duk Dong Offensive at the Time...
People via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoThe Japanese-American actor, who was born and raised in Utah, says he was just thrilled to see they...
‘Sixteen Candles’ Star Gedde Watanabe Didn’t Initially Realize Long Duk Dong Was a ‘Stereotype’
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 3 weeks ago"It didn’t really occur to me that it was a stereotype, because there wasn’t really anything out...
Gedde Watanabe didn't consider his “Sixteen Candles” role racist at the time
Entertainment Weekly via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoThe actor played foreign exchange student Long Duk Dong in the John Hughes flick. Plenty has been...
Gedde Watanabe Says He Didn’t Consider His ‘Sixteen Candles’ Character ‘Long Duk Dong’ Racist When...
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 3 weeks ago“Frankly I was like, this is a good job, and I’m going to get paid more doing one week in this movie...
19 Movie Moments From The '80s Gen Z Would Eviscerate Today
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 1 year ago1.In Earth Girls Are Easy, when Mac uses his love touch to make the police officers fall in...
Molly Ringwald’s Honest Quotes About Making Peace With the Problematic Nature of ‘Sixteen Candles’
Us Weekly via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoForty years after its release, Sixteen Candles has an undeniable place in the pantheon of American...
The Cast of “Sixteen Candles”: Where Are They Now?
People via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoForty years after the iconic John Hughes teen comedy premiered, see the cast then and now Alamy Michael Shoeffling, Anthony Michael Hall and Molly...
The 19 most problematic films ever made, from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to Forrest Gump
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMany filmmakers yearn for their work to be at the centre of a public conversation. But it’s not...