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In a car ride with her two friends Dionne (Stacey Dash) and Murray ( Faison), Cher learns why her courtship has been unsuccessful: Christian is gay – or as Murray puts it, “a disco-dancing. Christian Stovitz is a character (and my personal boyfriend) on the film, Clueless, portrayed by Justin Walker. The character is loosely based on the character Frank Churchill from Emma.

This is a list of characters in the original film version of the American teen comedy Clueless () and the subsequent television series of the same name, which premiered in Walker told ABC News during a 20th-anniversary Clueless cast reunion video that Christian would most likely be "an aging Lady Gaga back-up dancer" in real life. Whatever happened to Justin Walker who portrayed Christian in the film Clueless alongside Paul Rudd and Alicia Silverstone?

His character was one of the first openly gay characters. Clueless is a near-perfect update of Jane Austen's Emma for the modern day, or the '90s modern day.

Cher Alicia Silverstone is the perfect 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 different 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 movie 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 minor couples. Frank is introduced as the bad boy 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 time to Emma's rival, Jane Fairfax.

Jane, a poor but brilliant orphan, shares an "opposites attract" forbidden love with Frank, and its reveal changes the trajectory of the novel. This makes it all the more disappointing that Clueless omitted it. In Clueless , Frank's equivalent is Christian , the boy from the city with the snappy dress sense and the love of Billie Holiday, who Cher's dad critiques, "You think the death of Sammy Davis left an opening in the rat pack?

Audiences on a rewatch can pick up on the clues, such as Christian flirting with a man at the bar, the same way rereads of Emma can catch the Churchill twist. But why, then, is there no boy Jane Fairfax for Christian? Arguably, the film is pretty busy, and one could say that maybe there just wasn't time.

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But that excuse to modern viewers seems a little thin. Clueless isn't especially long, and most Emma movies take only a few minutes to present Jane and Frank anyway. They appear very briefly in the and films, taking less than ten minutes to sum up a huge chunk of the novel. There's no reason why Christian couldn't have revealed a secret boyfriend in, say, a clever male school rival of Cher's from debate class and shared a kiss in the finale.

Well, the obvious reason why Christian has no version of Jane Fairfax is that the reveal of Christian being gay is not there to facilitate a modern version of the "Frank and Jane secret engagement because of class disparities" reveal. It is there to make him romantically unavailable to Cher. This follows a typical trend of '90s romantic comedy representations of gay men. Because the gay rom-com or lovely gay beta couple were still a long way away and are still rare now, Christian couldn't get a male Jane.

The reveal of his sexuality is to serve the straight protagonist's story, not to include a gay couple and their romance. It is to provide Cher with the classic '90s "gay best friend. If Clueless was made today, perhaps Christian would finally get his boy version of Jane Fairfax. But it does stand as the one omission from an otherwise classic film.

The '90s portrayal of homosexuality was certainly more positive than just about any previous decade, but that doesn't mean it wasn't lacking. Christian certainly is designated as gay through stereotypes, like enjoying clothing and Murray's proclamation that he's "a disco-dancing, Oscar Wilde reading, Streisand ticket-holding friend of Dorothy," rather than simply liking men, and is pretty quickly dropped from the film as a main character after the reveal, with little exploration of his sexuality or interest in providing him a romantic happy ending like his straight novel equivalent's.

It really is a missed opportunity -- after all, what better way to update Frank and Jane's forbidden love to the '90s? Sign in now.