I realize this may get me banned from the entire internet. I realize he’s beloved.
BUT THOSE ARE ALWAYS THE WORST ONES.
I’m probably wrong. I hope I am. I’m not saying it’s true. I’m literally only saying what I’m saying, which is that every time I’ve watched interviews with him (e.g. on Conan), he gives me the willies a little bit.
Edit: Just realized “gives me the willies” is an unintentional pun. Giving 10/10 points to myself retroactively.
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It’s an opinion. I’d hazard a guess it’s unpopular. I see nothing wrong with this.
leaving it up.
That’s… why we’re here
Just wait, I feel like people are really coming around to the idea!
There is nothing to substantiate your feelings, I think the “creepy” vibe may be better described as mischievous, which he absolute was, in a playful way. So yeah, consider this your ban from the internet.
But more seriously, you maybe should check out his memoir from 2005. It’s pretty fantastic and I think it would both inform you to his life and humanize him, might influence your perspective of what you’re observing.
I believe you. I’m going to look up his book and hope to have my hair-standing-on-end suspicions disproven. Nay, I hope I feel like shit. But for now, he might be a pedophile.
Yep I suggested his book as well. He also quit bit of fiction too. He not creepy at all.
In Blazing Saddles, he was loveable and funny. In Willy Wonka he gave me big serial killer vibes. He played Wonky just so freaking creepy.
Well, he’s dead now so you have nothing to fear.
Sounds like a you problem.
I disagree with you, but I can see how he could give someone some unfounded heeby jeebies. They way that he talks has a tone to it like he’s doing something shady, even when he’s just talking.
I feel you, OP.
David Tennant is also just a little too good at playing malignant sociopaths, but no one believes me about his evident evil either.
I got the same vibes when I was a kid. I can’t speak for you, but for me I realized that my discomfort was just a bit of homophobia that I grew out of.
Edit: Please disregard me being dumb - he never came out as gay.
Wilder wasn’t gay, or at least not exclusively so. He was married to Gilda Radner for many years.
Yeah Not gay.
Literally means nothing to his generation, especially to a celebrity, but by all accounts that was real even if his other marriages were out of social obligation.
Oh thank you for the correction ! I guess I was just going off of what other people had told me, and how he was so well beloved by LGBT+ communities. For what it’s worth as I’m looking into it now it seems there were some rumors, including a very complicated relationship with Richard Pryor who went on the record describing Wilder with a slur.
I also may have been confusing Gene Wilder with Oscar Wilde.
Interesting, I had no idea he was gay.
Probably because I’m dumb and wrong lol.
He’s a perpetual flirt even when he’s not flirting. Probably a Gemini.
Dude just read his autobiography book and when you are done you will feel much better and can join back in with the flock.
Check out The Frisco Kid.
Funny enough, when reading the Discworld books I imagined Moist Von Lipwig as Gene Wilder. He was a confidence man, swindler, crook, that later went straight, sorta.
