Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gedde Watanabe has enjoyed a lengthy career in Hollywood. The actor’s big break was the 1984 film “Sixteen Candles,” in which he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo Credit: ComingSoon) ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to Ultraman: Rising stars Christopher Sean, Gedde ...

The actor played foreign exchange student Long Duk Dong in the John Hughes flick. Plenty has been said about problematic character Long Duk Dong in John Hughes' Sixteen Candles, but actor Gedde ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watanabe, now 68, said he initially saw the role as a great job opportunity that paid significantly better than his previous ...

The Japanese-American actor, who was born and raised in Utah, says he was just thrilled to see they were casting an Asian in any movie Getty;Universal Pictures Gedde Watanabe now, and as Long Duck ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Sixteen Candles” actor Gedde Watanabe says it “didn’t really occur” to him in 1984 that his character Long Duk Dong “was a ...

He was comic relief in a slapstick movie — and to many, one of Hollywood's most offensive Asian stereotypes. NPR's Alison MacAdam examines the... Long Duk Dong: Last of the Hollywood Stereotypes? Long ...

On this episode of West of Broadway Will Armstrong and Wendy Rosoff speak with Gedde Watanabe and George Xavier, two cast members of East West Players' Spring 2020 production of the award-winning ...

Gedde Watanabe talked about his role in “Sixteen Candles” and how things have changed for him and the Asian community in Hollywood since then. He talked about Asian actors that are doing great work ...

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Gedde Watanabe has enjoyed a lengthy career in Hollywood. The actor's big break was the 1984 film "Sixteen Candles," in which he played foreign exchange student "Long Duk Dong." While Watanabe's line ...