'Sixteen Candles' actor Gedde Watanabe didn't believe at the time that his character in the film Long Duk Dong was a 'stereotype.' ...

Sixteen Candles Long Duk Dong actor Gedde Watanabe didn't think his role was stereotypical or racist, he says timed to the film's 20th anniversary.

Sixteen Candles’ Gedde Watanabe explains why he wasn’t offended by his stereotypical role as Long Duk Dong.

Nowadays, Watanabe says people are still obsessed with quoting Long Duk Dong's memorable lines back to him, something he was originally bothered by.

Over the past couple of decades, John Hughes’ Sixteen Candles has been seen in a new light, with many calling out its portrayal of foreign exchange student Long Duk Dong, played by Gedde ...

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“Sixteen Candles” actor Gedde Watanabe says it “didn’t really occur” to him in 1984 that his character Long Duk Dong “was a stereotype.” “It didn’t really occur to me that it was a stereotype, because ...

In the ’80s, it was almost guaranteed that any movie featuring a diverse cast would reduce non-white characters to shallow ...

Over the past couple of decades, John Hughes’ Sixteen Candles has been seen in a new light, with many calling out its portrayal of foreign exchange student Long Duk Dong, played by Gedde Watanabe, as ...

It's been 40 years since Sixteen Candles was released in theaters, and while times have certainly changed — and Molly Ringwald recently opened up about parts of the movie that haven't aged well — ...