#matthew duckett

[slingshotsandrosarybeads]

[newsiessellpapesss]

UKsies at the royal Variety

[in-love-with-movies]

Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022)

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"Just hold on, kid."

video: @lasagnatrades

[honeyywoods]

haiiii I’m still on my bs it’s so crazy how all of them serve face all the time 24/7 365 days a year

[cosmicwolfboy]

“dumb crip’s just too damn slow” not matthew’s crutchie. NEVER matthews’s crutchie. he was barrelling across the stage with purpose at all times. he could fucking MOVE. he did NOT come to fuck around he came to be speedy as shit and i love him so dearly

[just-pot-over-here]

Ok, of course, yes please also tell us about your favorite Crutchie and why!

LETS FUCKING GOOOO OKAY

i have no problem with AKB as a person!! just getting that out of the way because i WILL shit on his portrayal of Crutchie swiftly and without remorse.

AKB is very good at playing the happy-go-lucky, innocent, wide eyed comedic relief character. he plays the same type of character in tuck everlasting as Jesse, and in the Dracula reimagining he's in now. he's a good actor and he plays that typecast well!

the problem is, that isn't Crutchie. i feel like AKB drastically sanitized the character that was written in the script. he made Crutchie into this pure and wholesome caricature of a disabled person, who gets pushed around and defended and is always upbeat about it. The general atmosphere of fan spaces in 2017 didn't help that at all either. I remember a lot of infantilizing Crutchie, all sorts of "smol boi ray of sunshine" shit. he was treated like this defenseless, needy little thing. he wasn't a person.

I really feel like Matthew Duckett (an actual disabled actor! almost like it matters!) read the same script as AKB, and got a person out of it instead of a pity sponge. Matthew's Crutchie is, to put it plainly, a little shit. He antagonizes the Delanceys, fights cops, slingshots his friends when he gets bored. He's playful and funny, but he's also whip-smart, fast on his feet, and will talk shit like it's nobody's business. his doubt about the strike isn't him being scared and worried about fighting, it's him being a realist and a strategist, recognizing flaws in their plan that jack isn't even thinking about. He isn't this defenseless little blob that the other newsies have to constantly worry about, but a competent and capable part of the community. one of jack's right hands and confidants, an intelligent and necessary part of the strike. it makes it so much more devastating when he's taken to the refuge. jack falls apart because he's lost his friend, brother, and equal, not because he let poor little Crutchie get captured by the cops.

and when Matthew's Crutchie gets back from the refuge, he is happy to be back and see his friends, but he is also angry. he's angry and hurt and has a lot of other emotions going on, which you can see when he cuffs Snyder. he doesn't just bounce right back, he is affected tremendously. like a REAL GODDAMN PERSON.

i love how Matthew Duckett gave Crutchie room to be a capable, emotional character instead of a clean-cut sunny blob. you can really see that he isn't just Crutchie, he's Sean (or Charlie or whatever name you prefer), the real person.

AKB made Crutchie a caricature, Matthew Duckett brought him to life.

[whoops-im-obsessed]

"Dumb crp's just too damn slow" sorry Jack inaccurate this is uksies and matthew duckett is on his way to mow you down

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mr crutchie morris/sean hanlon/whatever

[baura-bear]

When Matthew misses his entrance for LFTR because he’s distracted by Immie’s live

[ill-say-anything-i-hafta]

Crutchie Morris: your headcannon 2024

[chimeofthecomet]

my beloved cast members matthew bucket and ryan kobel

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disney: okay, so here’s all the canon information we’ve created about crutchie—

matthew duckett:

[undescribed1mage]

how. how did it take thirty years for someone in an official ver of newsies to go 'hey. aren't crutches supposed to be on the side opposite of the injury.' like.

[aceofspades-sml]

Not Matthew running down Manhattan with his newspapers and when he sees my newsies cosplay just going "You want one ? Here !" with his whole chest and throwing a pape at me

I wasn't even first row this man is actually insane for this