A girl's . Biography. "[7] Actress Molly Ringwald, who starred in Sixteen Candles, wrote in 2018 that in the film, "Long Duk Dong... is a grotesque stereotype. 12. [1], In 2011, Susannah Gora, writing about the 1980s films of John Hughes, said, "The only significant non-white character in any of these films is also the basest caricature of all: Long Duk Dong... A heightened national sense of cultural sensitivity (or political correctness, depending on how you look at it) swept America and the movie studios in the early nineties, and so the 1980s were, in many ways, the last moment when racially questionable jokes regularly found their place in mainstream comedies. In Sixteen Candles (1984), Long Duk Dong (played by Gedde Watanabe) is an Asian foreign exchange student who stays with the grandparents of the film's protagonist Samantha (played by Molly Ringwald). Driscoll said of John Hughes, who directed Sixteen Candles and several other teen films, "Even critics who praise Hughes's sensitivity to adolescent drama acknowledge that his is a very partial picture of adolescence. Actor Gedde Watanabe pretended he couldn’t speak English to win his role. Gedde Watanabe was born on June 26, 1955 in Ogden, Utah, USA as Gary Watanabe. The actor has a net worth of around $2 million as of 2019 which he earned from his career as a television and film actor. Mcknight, Lindsey Norris & Gedde Wantanabe, One of Those Nights: The Making of 'Vamp', Mulan: 15th Anniversary - The Voices of Mulan II. "[11], The co-founders of the Asian American popular culture magazine Giant Robot, Martin Wong and Eric Nakamura, said before Sixteen Candles, students of Asian descent in the United States were often nicknamed "Bruce Lee". He is perhaps best known for voicing the character of Ling in the 1998 animated film Mulan and its 2004 sequel, Mulan II as well as playing Long Duk Dong in the 1984 film Sixteen Candles. Throughout his career he has mostly portrayed East Asian characters with heavy accents although he doesn’t speak any Japanese. he would've thought it was something that cleans rice or makes tofu." Watanabe showed the machine to Hughes, who ultimately filmed the sequence in which Long Duk Dong and his American girlfriend awkwardly ride the machine together. He practices his conversational English with others, has his hair parted down the middle as an uncoolstyle, is mystified by American food, and calls himself "The Donger". He said of his character's perspective of the machine, "He wouldn't have known what that thing was. He appears accompanied by a gong sound. Gevolgd door een tv-serie. He said, "I was making people laugh. He is an actor, known for, Blu-ray Review – Sixteen Candles (1984), Molly Ringwald in John Hughes’ Sixteen Candles Available on Blu-ray April 14th From Arrow Video, Editors' Picks: Our Favorite Things From the Week of March 19. He is an actor, known for Sixteen Candles (1984), UHF (1989) and Mulan (1998). He is perhaps best known for playing Long Duk Dong in the teen film Sixteen Candles. Gedde Watanabe Celebrity Profile - Check out the latest Gedde Watanabe photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at Rotten Tomatoes! Watanabe said, "I kind of understood, and I reasoned with it. ", "What's So 'Cringeworthy' About Long Duk Dong in 'Sixteen Candles'? '), everything Long Duk Dong says and does is understandably offensive—but is also, admittedly, hilarious. "[9] Janet Maslin, writing for The New York Times, said, "When the movie goes too far, as it does with a stupid subplot about a sex-crazed Oriental exchange student or a running gag about a young woman in a body brace, at least it manages to bound back relatively soon thereafter. Gedde Watanabe Movies . Onwaarschijnlijke staartrijder van INDIANA JONES met vleugjes voodoo. He also finds a love interest, an athletic large-breasted young woman who is physically larger … Gedde Watanabe (gebore 26 Junie 1955) is 'n Amerikaanse akteur. Gedde Watanabe is a Japanese-American actor born in Utah. Gedde Watanabe is best known as a Movie Actor. 65 Year Old Actor #42. He portrayed the character of Long Duk Dong in the 1984 film, Sixteen Candles. "[4] He auditioned for casting director Jackie Burch in-character, convincing her that he was from Korea and barely spoke English. Gary "Gedde" Watanabe (born June 26, 1955) is an American actor and comedian. He was in Sixteen Candles with Molly Ringwald. When the film came out in 1984, several Asian-American groups condemned the character "as stereotypical, racist and part of a long history of Hollywood's offensive depictions of Asian men". Somewhere Between Cambridge Bay and Yellowknife, Rob Brownstein, E.P. He appears accompanied by a gong sound. A girl's "sweet" sixteenth birthday becomes anything but special, as she suffers from every embarrassment possible.