Daughter of 'Gilligan's Island's' Ginger: Make Professor gay in reboot

[joeybee12]

"Gilligan's Island" is set for a big screen voyage, and that makes casting — and plot — super-hot topics. So how about Jennifer Lawrence as bombshell Ginger? What about a gay Professor? Both are suggestions shared with TODAY by Caprice Crane, the daughter of Tina Louise, the actress who played Ginger.

"My mom was constantly coming on to the Professor on the show, and he was never into it," said Crane, a writer based in Los Angeles. "So the Professor could be the gay one. It would explain a lot. It would be fun if they shake it up, make it worthy of today's times."

Crane wasn't born until after "Gilligan's" ended, but she knows that Ginger was one of the show's most beloved characters, and is hoping someone with real star power will take on the role her mom created. (Josh Gad is already attached, though his part is not yet known.)

"They're going to have their work cut out for them finding someone who is as awesome and gorgeous and funny as my mom," she said. But after being told of TODAY's survey (in which readers preferred "Mad Men's" Christina Hendricks to play Ginger), she had her own favorite.

http://www.today.com/entertainment/daughter-gilligans-islands-ginger-make-professor-gay-reboot-2D11775877

[madrchsod]

1. mary ann was hotter than ginger...

[joeybee12]

4. NOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOO!

Ginger was glamour personified!!!!

[Dr Hobbitstein]

5. Agreed.

I'd take the girl next door over the over-glamoured Marilyn Monroe rip off. Even if she had red hair (I have a HUGE thing for redheads).

[MADem]

2. Maybe someone in the cast could be something other than white, too!

Beyonce--as suggested in the article--would work well as Ginger, and she has comedic chops. I thought she was great in that Austin Powers film.

[Politicalboi]

3. The professor wasn't gay

He was just into his work. Just because he doesn't like Ginger doesn't mean he's gay. He liked Mary Ann.

[SoCalMusicLover]

6. Exactly

He was the only one who gave a damn about figuring a way off the island.

[joeybee12]

8. She didn't say he was gay, but that it would be a nice twist

make things more current.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. OH NOES!!! THE HORROR!!!

Be ready for the incoming about how this is "just not right" for the character or a number of excuses. When it was suggested the new "Dr. Who" or "Spiderman" could be cast as gay, some people lost their damn minds. Dr. Watson can be an Asian-American woman; Renfield can be a Black actor, and those are "cool" and "progressive." But dare to suggest a character could be cast as gay or bisexual and it is as if you are trying to bring them to life to chop them to death with a machete!

[Vanje]

9. Werent they ALL gay, in the original series?

Except for Mr Howell and Lovie.