Waters, for the uninitiated, is the writer and director behind some of the most notorious underground cult movies of the 1970s. Early in his career, he and his outsider friends — happy to call themselves perverts and freaks — made deliberately disgusting movies like “Multiple Maniacs,” “Pink Flamingos,” “Female Trouble,” and “Desperate Living.” In 1988, Waters sidled into the mainstream with his 1960s-set musical “Hairspray,” a film that was eventually adapted into a Tony-winning musical. He also directed “Cry-Baby,” “Serial Mom,” and “Pecker.” His last film was 2004’s “A Dirty Shame,” an NC-17-rated comedy about whimsical sex addicts.
In an EW interview, Waters noted that his cameo in “Seed of Chucky” still gets him recognized on subways. His character, incidentally, was named Pete Peters, which is most certainly meant to be a ribald, adolescent joke. Waters doesn’t act much, but he regularly does speaking engagements and interviews, so his look and personality are well-known in the film world. Waters appeared briefly in “Hairspray,” played a minister in Herschell Gordon Lewis’ “Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat,” and cameoed as himself in “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip.”
His character in season three of “Chucky” will be called Wendell Wilkins. Little is known about the character, although it will be interesting to know how the Good Guys inventor feels about his creation becoming associated with a serial killer.
Waters has said on the record that he no longer wants to make movies, finding the fundraising phase to be far too difficult at his age (Waters is 77). His planned Christmas movie “Fruitcake” never got the cash. Instead, Waters wrote his first novel, “Liarmouth,” in 2022, and it was optioned for a film adaptation. There is no release date yet planned.