I realize this may get me banned from the entire internet. I realize he’s beloved.

BUT THOSE ARE ALWAYS THE WORST ONES.

I’m probably wrong. I hope I am. I’m not saying it’s true. I’m literally only saying what I’m saying, which is that every time I’ve watched interviews with him (e.g. on Conan), he gives me the willies a little bit.

Edit: Just realized “gives me the willies” is an unintentional pun. Giving 10/10 points to myself retroactively.

  • paultimate14@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    11 days ago

    I got the same vibes when I was a kid. I can’t speak for you, but for me I realized that my discomfort was just a bit of homophobia that I grew out of.

    Edit: Please disregard me being dumb - he never came out as gay.

    • Davel23@fedia.io
      9·
      12 days ago

      Wilder wasn’t gay, or at least not exclusively so. He was married to Gilda Radner for many years.

      • paultimate14@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        12 days ago

        Oh thank you for the correction ! I guess I was just going off of what other people had told me, and how he was so well beloved by LGBT+ communities. For what it’s worth as I’m looking into it now it seems there were some rumors, including a very complicated relationship with Richard Pryor who went on the record describing Wilder with a slur.

        I also may have been confusing Gene Wilder with Oscar Wilde.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
        3·
        11 days ago

        Literally means nothing to his generation, especially to a celebrity, but by all accounts that was real even if his other marriages were out of social obligation.