Pretending to be Gay,yet Ritter seemed gay. Inside joke?
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I_Love_Hutch — 9 years ago(September 17, 2016 08:26 AM)
I get how people might see John Ritter as gay. But in my gut, I don't think that he was gay. I think he was just a total softie and I think that he was probably very much in touch with his feminine side (perhaps more so than his masculine side), and, of course, his most well-known contribution was for portraying lovable Jack Tripper, who pretended to be gay. But I think people read him wrong. My hunch is that John Ritter LOVED the ladies, probably completely preferred women to the company of men.
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rascal67 — 9 years ago(September 17, 2016 06:41 PM)
I would say being a softie and in touch with ones feminine side is a dead giveaway Mr H. I wouldn't say that Ritter was full blown homo, but I wouldn't dismiss any homosexual tendencies as being a flash in the pan. I always felt\sensed this.
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rascal67 — 9 years ago(September 19, 2016 02:09 AM)
It may have been more of an attraction that I had for him, but I wouldn't have sold any homo tendencies he had short. He wouldn't have been "gay" so to speak as full-blown and he does have 3 children: his son Jason is a cutiepie.
If a so-called "straight" actor is playing gay, I find that somewhat condescending. It's as though they are projecting being accepting and tolerant within their own comfort-zone and heterosexual realm; but any staunch het male is not really going to want to acknowledge this, actor or not. It would not be "normal" to them. An actor is pretending and can then use this pretense as a cover for themselves and then the herd think they are such good actors for playing "gay", when they are not really. If an openly gay actor is playing "straight", it wouldn't be taken as seriously. Being gay must be a "serious" thing. Ritter would have been bi.
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barkbarkwoof — 10 years ago(August 23, 2015 11:01 PM)
I think he came off as effeminate. At the time to the general public effeminate=gay. After famous homosexuals either were revealed through contracting HIV or came out the rest of us learned that there really isn't a correlation. I thought he was gay as well and when I came across a credit of his came here out of curiosity about whether nearly 40 year old impressions were correct.
I do understand it really doesn't matter and hope that mannerisms etc as well as orientation will go the way of left handed people are evil. -
mcgill_j — 10 years ago(June 28, 2015 01:40 PM)
I can't say it was necessarily in his mannerisms, or his largely physical comedy performance. BUT Jack was played rather straight forward and not the over the top alpha wannabe players like Larry or Furley. I wouldn't say he came off as gay.. but a guy who genuinely got along with, was friends with and lived with women at that time? I won't say it was entirely unheard of on TV at the time.. but at the time I think that could have been read into it as much as Ritter's or should I say Jack's natural awkwardness around women, even though he clearly did love them. I think seeing a guy like Jack presented as a "ladies man" in what was considered edgy and risque at the time.
That's just my view of it.. depending on how you perceive the character. But regardles there's little doubt as to how brilliant Ritter was and spot on in the show. -
doggie_rodriguez — 9 years ago(September 17, 2016 08:23 AM)
This always struck me when watching the show. We have this supposed woman-chaser pretending to be a gay man..yet, it didn't click because Ritter came off as a gay man himself.
Didn't click? The show was on for 8 seasons and had a couple of spin offs. I'd say it clicked just fine. -
jmbwithcats — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 07:33 PM)
LOL @ Didn't click ridiculous.
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