We were there all night long. Sixteen Candles was rated PG, so they couldn’t show anything explicit. Still, the original script had a love scene for Dong and Lumberjack. Pollack recalls the ...

Gedde Watanabe took no offense to his Sixteen Candles role. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Japanese-American actor Gedde ...

By Tatiana Tenreyro 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 ...

"It didn’t really occur to me that it was a stereotype, because there wasn’t really anything out there for Asian actors at the time," Watanabe said. “Sixteen Candles” actor Gedde Watanabe ...

But, these days, Sixteen Candles is also not-so-fondly remembered for its most notorious supporting role: foreign exchange student Long Duk Dong, a walking caricature of Asian stereotypes.

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 ...

See what the 'Sixteen ... of Long Duk Dong, a Chinese foreign exchange student who stays with the Bakers over the wedding weekend. Read on to see what the cast of Sixteen Candles has been up ...

It's his face — not that of Molly Ringwald's heroine — on the Sixteen Candles DVD in that red Netflix envelope. In real American schools, Long Duk Dong gave the mean kids new material.

We have a long way to go.” The Long Duk Dong he is referring to is the foreign exchange student who visits Sam’s family in “Sixteen Candles,” a character who quickly devolves into a parody of how ...

“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 ...