Gay guy from clueless
ABOVE: Actor Justin Walker as Christian Stovitz in the 1995 teen comedy “Clueless.” (Photo courtesy screenshot from YouTube)
“As if!” It has been 25 years since that phrase — and many more — were made popular in the mainstream with the release of the hit teen-comedy, “Clueless.”
“Clueless” not only expanded pop culture slang and fashion trends for 90s teens when it opened July 19, 1995, it also expanded LGBTQ representation in movies at a time when not many studio films were including queer characters.
While the role of Cher Horowitz proved to be a breakout for its lead actress Alicia Silverstone, the nature of Christian Stovitz would give star Justin Walker his cinematic debut and his most well-liked role. In the film, Christian is depicted as a smooth, enigmatic figure with an affinity for vintage pop culture.
In a main attraction story from The Telegraph, director Amy Heckerling speaks further to Christian’s unusual style and disposition.
“Christian was someone who has made a study of the Ratpack, he reflected the resurgence of the swinger mentality in the [’90s],” she said. “So he brings assist jive talk vocabulary.”
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Clueless heartthrob Justin Walker looks unrecognisable 30 years after the iconic movie's release
Clueless star Justin Walker looks unrecognisable 30 years after the release of the iconic high university comedy.
The actor played heartthrob Christian Stovitz in the 1995 movie, which was loosely based Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma, saw him as the protest of Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone)'s affections.
However after Christian failed to show any interest in his classmate, despite her desperate attempts to seduce him, it was revealed that he was gay.
While other stars of the now cult clip like Paul Rudd and the late Brittany Murphy went on to superstardom, actor Justin disappeared from the spotlight.
He now sports salt and pepper locks and gone are his 90s curls after turning his back on acting in 2005.
Clueless was his biggest role before going on to come in an episode of Pamela Anderson's V.I.P and a Pizza Hut ad.
Clueless star Justin Walker looks unrecognisable 30 years after the release of the iconic high university comedy (left pictured 2019, right pictured in the movie)
The actor played Christian Stovitz in the 1995 movie, which was loosely based Jane Austen
Clueless the Musical is set to open at London’s Trafalgar Theatre on Saturday (15 February).
Based on the 1995 cult-classic movie, and inspired by the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth – her seminal novel Emma forms the basis of the story – Clueless follows Cher Horowitz, a high-school student who is excellent at matchmaking everyone but herself.
When she embarks on her biggest project yet, making over her friend Tai and finding her a boyfriend, Cher realises that she needs to re-evaluate her priorities to discover the man of her have dreams.
“I am totally in adore with the brilliant new talent we have been working with and can’t wait for audiences to be thrilled with their singing, dancing, their heart and humour,” Heckerling said.
Emma Flynn and Keelan McAuley will play guide characters Cher and Josh respectively, while Isaac J Lewis takes the role of much-loved male lover character Christian Stovitz.
Christian is loosely based on Emma‘s Frank Churchill, and serves as a cherish interest for Cher as she breaks her “no high-school boys” policy to pursue him.
But it turns out that Christian is gay, so they get shopping buddies instead.
This article contains affiliate l Clueless is a near-perfect update of Jane Austen's Emma for the new day, or the '90s modern day. Cher (Alicia Silverstone) is the matchless Beverly Hills glam version of Austen's haughty heroine; the high school setting brings Austen's social strata into the modern era, and the revamps to the ending, such as the girls from diverse classes, Emma and Harriet (Britanny Murphy's Tai), remaining friends are great democratic changes. However, there is one very notable Emma character missing from the adaptation, and her -- or rather his -- absence leaves the film missing one modern update it needed: Christian Stovitz (Justin Walker), the Frank Churchill equivalent, has no male version of Jane Fairfax. Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax are one of Austen's more beloved low couples. Frank is introduced as the bad lad romantic false lead for Emma, the charming scoundrel that appears in most of her works to tempt the heroine away from the hero; through a plot twist, however, Frank is redeemed as just careless, not wicked, and turns out to have been secretly engaged the whole t
Clueless' Missing Emma Character Spotlights the '90s LGBT Invisibility Issue