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“It has really been nice for me again, as a gay man, to have a lot of gay, queer and trans fans say that movie meant a lot to them, and that those characters meant a lot to them as queer kids,” Mancini explained.
"The journey of Jake, Jake's character, going from bullied, abused, lonely kid who could go down a dark path and almost does, but gets talked off the ledge by newfound friends and first love," Mancini muses. Some people were a little surprised to see Chucky, the red-headed doll and prolific serial killer, included in the collection.
“I think Chucky is like a guy who’s always been straight, always identified as straight, but if you can get him drunk, he’ll let his guard down,” Mancini said. Unlike the Babadook and M3GAN, horror movie characters adopted as campy mascots by extremely online members of the LGBTQ+ community, Chucky is canonically a queer ally, and he was created by a gay man—screenwriter Don Mancini.
While the first three movies in the Child’s Play franchise aren’t overtly queer-coded, the series took a distinctively campy turn with 2000’s Bride of Chucky, which includes a casually positive representation of a gay character (Damien, played by the late Alexis Arquette) at a time when such a thing was still weirdly unusual in pop culture, and especially in horror.
Her brain is a cursed tomb of pop culture knowledge. The Amplifying LGBTQIA+ Voices collection predictably includes classics (The Birdcage, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) along with camp offerings (Burlesque, The Traitors) and—Child’s Play? With that admittedly extreme act, Chucky cements his new place in Jake's life as a murder mentor and the kind of accepting parental figure Jake never had.
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Like his recent AI-driven protege M3GAN, Chucky is something of an LGBTQ+ icon.
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At the beginning of June, Peacock debuted a curated assortment of movies and shows for Pride month. However, that's not going to stop him from being a psychopathic killer who's generally chill with other peoples' sexualities, including Jake and Devon's.
Getting to show that relationship was imperative for Mancini, who says it was his favorite part of bringing Chucky to the small screen.
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She has written for The A.V. Club, Birth.Movies.Death, and The Austin Chronicle, and is the former associate editor for ScreenCrush.The New York Times recently spoke with Mancini, who also created the Chucky series, about his character’s legacy.
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"I think Chucky is like a guy who's always been straight, always identified as straight, but if you can get him drunk, he'll let his guard down," Mancini explains with a laugh.
the next morning he might feel a little weird about it."
Chucky killing Jake's homophobic father and telling Jake that he has a queer kid of his own who he's cool with (because he's "not a monster") are just scratching the surface. The series, which just wrapped its third season, centers on a young gay protagonist named Jake (Zackary Arthur) who finds Chucky at a yard sale at the start of season 1.
the next morning he might feel a little weird about it.”