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FIONA DOURIF
ABC’s inspirational miniseries WHEN WE Increase, written and created by Academy Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, “chronicles the real-life personal and political struggles, set-backs and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the US Civil Rights movement from its turbulent infancy in the 20th centruy to the once unfathomable successes of today.” Fiona Dourif plays one of those pioneers, Diane Jones, founder of The Women’s Building, an HIV/AIDS nurse who retired recently after 33 years of service.
When we spoke this week about the series as a whole, Dourif told me that Jones, also portrayed in the series by Rachel Griffiths, is “a pretty phenomenal figure. I look up to her in real animation. She is very unlock but very hesitant to take credit sometimes for things that she’s done.”
Fiona and I chatted about playing a real experience hero and why this is a series everyone should be watching – “I hope it will elicit compassion for people that may not sound like us, and I think that it may surprise a few people.”
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Queer-film icon dishes on Chucky’s LGBT identity, the franchise’s groundbreaking trans doll and her legendary lesbian neo-noir ‘Bound’
Chucky, with his fiery red hair and frighteningly loyal pledge to be “your friend till the end,” was never gay by design. But in 1998, four films into the Child’s Play franchise, the undying slasher flicks centered on a ghastly ’80s-era talking doll took a campy, lgbtq+ turn with the sequel Bride of Chucky.
We have out Chucky designer Don Mancini to hail for the queering of Chucky, who fathered a gender-fluid child named Glen/Glenda with goth-turned-glam lady doll Tiffany Valentine in 2004’s Seed of Chucky, notably featuring filth king John Waters and a Britney Spears look-alike (Chucky’s reaction to running her off the road? “Oops, I did it again”).
Doubling as Tiffany and herself is lesbian fave and voice of the plastic assassin Jennifer Tilly, who returns for the Excellent Guy doll’s seventh motion picture, Cult of Chucky, to wreak havoc on the patients and staff at a mental institution, among them a gay nurse named Carlos (Zak Santiago). Chucky is scary again, as Cult begins where his reentry into straight-up, decamped horror via 2013
Chucky is one of the most well-known psychopaths in horror history — maybe in all of movie history. Even if you've somehow never seen a single one of his movies, you know Chucky. From his iconic red hair to Brad Dourif's unforgettable vocal performance, Chucky is known to (and feared by) all. But here's a fact that might surprise you: He's a proud supporter of the LGBTQA+ community.
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Watch Chucky on SYFY. Stream from the beginning on Peacock.
SYFY WIRE had the chance to perch down (virtually) with Chucky stars Fiona Dourif and Jennifer Tilly to procure their takes on Chucky as an ally.
But let's back up a second: Chucky –– the Great Guy doll possessed by the soul of a serial killer –– is also a queer ally? It's true! In the most recent entry in the franchise (the Chucky series right here on SYFY), queer characters are placed front and center. Jake, Chucky's latest 'friend 'til the end,' is in a burgeoning teen romance with Devon. Just two teen boys and their murdering but also progressive and encouraging doll.
In a scene now iconic in Chucky history, Chucky talks to Jake about his gender fluid youngster (Glen'Glenda, introduced in Seed of Ch Wednesdaynight,as the Republican Administration announced its withdrawal of federal guidance that protected gender diverse and gender-nonconforming students in public schools from creature discriminated against based on their gender identity, I sat in a production theater on the Drop East Side. I was there for a preview screening of the first episode of “When We Rise,” a four-part television docudrama that follows the lives of three new people who in the early ‘70s became trailblazers in the LGBTQ rights movement. The “When We Rise” miniseries will debut Monday night, Feb. 27 on ABC TV at 9p/8c. Due to an speak to to Congress by President Obama’s successor, the three subsequent two-hour episodes will air March 1 to March 3, also at 9p/8c. ““We have to produce our own power to ensure our safety.”” As I watched the stories of real-life activists Roma Guy, Cleve Jones and Ken Jones unfold on the screen, I felt myself becoming emotionally involved. I was reminded of the pain LGBTQ people suffered then – and still suffer – often at the hands of commandment enforcement. I choked up during the conversation fresh Cleve Jones has with his physician father, reminded that many in the medical pro .