Spencer Reid may not be canonically bisexual , but he is sure bisexual to me !
1.Actor Jessica Cauffiel — aka Margot fromLegally Blonde— revealed that the original ending of the movie suggested that Elle and Vivian ended up together, not her and Emmett.
Shetold the New York Times, “The first ending was Elle and Vivian inHawaiiin beach chairs, drinking margaritas and holding hands. The insinuation was either they werebest friendsor they had gotten together romantically.”
FellowLegally Blondeactor, Alanna Ubach, recalls the ending as well, but co-screenwriter Karen McCullahsaysthey never wrote that. Either way, I would very much like for it to exist, please and thanks.
2.The fan-favoriteFriendscharacter, Chandler Bing, was almost gay. In 1996, the show’s co-creator David Crane toldthe Advocatethat they hadn’t determined Chandler’s sexuality when they started working on the show.
He revealed that the characters' sexuality depended on who they ultimately cast. As the role went to the lateMatthew Perry, they decided Chandler would be straight. “If we had cast a different actor — who was gay — there was the option that we would have taken the character in that direction,” Davidrevealed.
3.WriterJames Gunnrevealed that Velma — played by Linda Cardellini — was gay in the first draft of the 2002 live-actionScooby-Doomovie, but the studio was hesitant. Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played Daphne,revealedthat a “steamy” kiss was filmed between her character and Velma, but was cut.
In a now-deleted tweet, James Gunnsaid, “In 2001 Velma was explicitly gay in my initial script. But the studio just kept watering it down & watering it down, becoming ambiguous, then nothing & finally [her] having a boyfriend [in the sequel].”
4.Listen: They knew Scooby-Doo would be too powerful if it were gay because another character from the movie — Fred — was originally meant to be queer.
Icon Sarah Michelle Gellar once againspoke on the topic, telling Andy Cohen that Fred has always been a character that’s implied to be “interested in both parties.” Revealing a cut line from the film, she said, “Daphne and Fred were having a fight and I yell at him, ‘That ascot makes you look gay!’ I slam the door [at him]. They cut that, too. I think that was the reason I signed onto the movie. It’s something everyone’s thought for a long time.”
Mathew Lillard — who played Shaggy — confirmed this in aReddit AMA, elaborating that a lot of “above the kids headline” comedy was cut. “When we tested the parents flipped their lids and Warners got scarred. Its’ one of the crown jewels in their library and couldn’t risk a back lash.”
5.Spencer Reid fromCriminal Minds— as played by Matthew Gray Gubler — was originally supposed to be bisexual, however, this wasshut downby “the powers that be” in the fourth episode of the show.
The show’s creator, Jeff Davis, explained on Twitter that Reid’s crush on JJ in the first season of the show made it impossible. While fans quickly pointed out that he could still like JJ and be bi, Jeff simply said that he got pushback from the studio regardless.
6.While Valkyrie’s sexuality is more directly addressed inThor: Love and Thunder, a scene in its predecessorThor: Ragnarokthat confirmed her bisexuality was cut.
Originally, the film included a scene where a woman walked out of Valkyrie’s bedroom, which writer and director Taika Waititikept in the film"as long as he could." Ultimately, it was cut “because it distracted from the scene’s vital exposition.”
Tessa Thompson toldRolling Stoneshe personally pitched to maintain Valkyrie’s bisexuality in the movie, and what couldn’t be done explicitly, she tried to do through her portrayal of the character. She went on toexplain, “There’s a great shot of me falling back from one of my sisters who’s just been slain. In my mind, that was my lover.”
7.Afterlotsof queerbaiting in thePitch Perfectmovies, Beca and Chloe, played respectively by Anna Kendrick and Brittany Snow, were supposed to put all those “rumors” to rest and finally kiss. While the kisswasfilmed, it never made it into the movie.
AtPitch Perfect 3’s Australian red carpet, Rebel Wilson — who played Fat Amy —revealed to fansthat on the last day on set, Anna Kendrick pushed for a kiss between Chloe and Beca to be filmed. It was, but the studio didn’t want to put it in the finished movie.
Other cast members confirmed Rebel’s claim, like Hana Mae Lee — who played Lilly Onakuramara — in a fan Q&A…
@dadmongeau @chrissiefit There was one … where do you think it may be @chrissiefit ?
…as well as Chrissie Fit, who played Florencia “Flo” Fuentes.
Yep . I wish I could share it 🤦 🏽 ♀ ️ # pitchperfect3 # PitchesNightIn # askapitch https://t.co/b19c7AbPpk
If anything, the third and final film in the franchise only furthered fans' claims of queerbaiting, going so far as to use a video of Beca and Chloe almost kissing as promo for the film before it came out.
8.Oscar Isaac hashintedat and pushed for hisStar Warscharacter, Poe Dameron, to have a romantic storyline with Finn (played by John Boyega), however, he revealed that “the Disney overlords were not ready to do that.”
In an interview withIGN, he explained, “I think there could’ve been a very interesting, forward-thinking — not even forward-thinking, just, like,current-thinking love story there, something that hadn’t quite been explored yet; particularly the dynamic between these two men in war that could’ve fallen in love with each other.”
While Disney doesn’t seem to have any plans to make the characters canonically gay, Oscar appears to have his own plans up his sleeve to give fans what they want. In aninterview with Ellenahead ofThe Force Awakens’s release, Oscar said, “You have to just look very closely, you have to watch it a few times to see the little hints, but there was. At least, I was playing romance. In the cockpit I was playing, there was a deep romance there.”
9.Riverdalestar Cole Sprouse toldTeen Voguethat he “did a lot of research” on asexuality after being cast as Jughead Jones, who is asexual in theArchiecomics. Unfortunately, his asexuality is not portrayed in the CW show.
When asked if he was advocating for it in the show, heresponded, “I hope that huge corporations like the CW recognize that this kind of representation is rare and severely important to people who resonate with it.”
10.In theFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafenovel by Fannie Flagg — which theFried Green Tomatoesmovie is based upon, Idgie and Ruth are explicitly sapphic and in a romantic relationship. In the 1991 film, however, their queerness became subtext, and their relationship was portrayed as platonic.
The film’s director, Jon Avnet, said, “You can take it how you want to… I had no interest in going into the bedroom.” Similarly, onThe Dennis Miller Show, when Dennis commented on how it’d be sweet if the pair had been lovers, Mary Stuart Masterson — who played Idgie —replied, “I know what you mean… The movie isn’t really about their relationship in terms of their sexuality, no matter what that might be.”
Regardless, the filmwona “best feature film with lesbian content” GLAAD award in 1992. GLAAD executive director Ellen Carton said of the decision, “Tomatoes’filmmakers may have wanted to tone down the lesbian content. Too bad. But we recognize these women as lesbians. And giving the award is a way for us to acknowledge that these are lesbians.”
11.Melody Pendras — from the Netflix seriesArchive 81,based on the scripted podcast of the same name — wasoriginally a queer characterwho was straightwashed by the on-screen adaptation.
In the podcast, Melody has a wife she’s been married to for 20 years. In the show, her queerness is never addressed and she does not have a wife. She does, however, have romantic encounters with male characters, like an occultist, Samuel.
12.John Constantine — aka Hellblazer — is canonically bisexual in the DC comics. However, in NBC’sConstantineTV show, he was straightwashed. According to an EW interview with Daniel Cerone — the show’s executive producer — Danielsuggeststhat John’s bisexuality “is not a crucial aspect of the character.”
“In those comic books, John Constantine aged in real time… Within this tome of three decades [of comics] there might have been one or two issues where he’s seen getting out of bed with a man. So [maybe] 20 years from now? But there are no immediate plans,” Daniel continued.
John was not portrayed as bisexual by Keanu Reeves in the 2005 film adaptation of the comics, either. At long last, his sexuality wasbrought to the screenin the CW seriesDC’s Legends of Tomorrow.
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Spencer Reid may not be canonically bisexual, but he is surely bisexual to me!
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