Johnny Berchtold: I have good news and bad news. The good news is his d*ck

 Link to the n*de dudes

I researched Johnny Berchtold, who plays the gay-vague or maybe canonically gay college student Richard Beck on Season 3 of Reacher.   

I have good news and bad news.

The good news: He is huge.

 

The bad news: The d*ck pic is from the movie A Hard Problem (2021).  Johnny plays a guy who tries to reconnect with his sister and recruits The Girl to help him clean out his deceased mother's house. Heteronormativity all the way down.

The good news:  In addition to Reacher, Johnny has a gay-vague role in  The Passenger (2023). Violent loose-cannon Benson (Kyle Gallner) decides to "fix" beset-upon fast-food worker  Randy (Johnny), killing his bullies, helping him stand up to his overbearing mother, and so on.

The script was heteronormative, but queer director Carter Smith had the actors push up the homoeroticism until they are almost a gay couple.  (Spoiler: one dies at the end).

The bad news: I couldn't find any other gay or gay-vague roles.

In Tiny Pretty Things (2023), his character is married to Claire (Katherine Hahn of Agatha All Along).

In spite of the whimsical pun-title, Dog Gone (2023) is about a dying guy and his dog, who is also dying.  He's probably straight, but I'm not sure: the plot synopsis was so disturbing that I just skimmed through.

In Gaslight (2021), which is about Watergate, not Victorian England, Johnny plays Jay Jennings, the estranged son of Martha Mitchell (wife of Attorney General John Mitchell).  He is married to a woman.

In spite of the whimsical title,  Life as a Mermaid (2016-2018) is a live-action drama about two mermaid sisters living among humans.  Johnny plays the Barnacle King, sort of a nerdish character with disgusting barnacles attached to his face.  He has a male sidekick, but I couldn't stomach watching long enough to determine if he is gay or gay-vague.

Fun fact: Life as a Mermaid is also a documentary about transgender people in Borneo.

The good news: Johnny is way into horror.  His instagram is full of photos of him in bloody and monster makeup, and getting Chucky as a roommate.  

More after the break

The bad news: He has only appeared in two horror movies.

In Test Screening (2024), it's 1982, and four teens (Reels, Mia, Penny, and Simon) go to a "test screening" at their local theater, but it turns out to be a mind-control experiment.   Johnny's character is straight.

In Snowfall (2023), five friend are trapped by a snowstorm in a mountain  cabin, and gradually go crazy.  Johnny's character is straight.

The Forbidden Wish (2021) sounds like horror, but it's actually a drama: Ethiopian-born Rabbi Nate (Sammi Rotibi) counsels a depressed young man (Johnny) who doesn't want to live anymore, so could he get a Kaddish (prayer for the dead)?  He's got a dead father and little brother, and it looks like the Rabbi is dying, too.  There may be some buddy-bonding amid their conversations about life, death, loss, death, pain, sadness, and death.  

Before we continue, let's f*k the Sadness with a photo of Adam Devine and his son.

The good news: Johnny is interested in writing/directing as well as acting and modeling.  

 He grew up in Laureldale, New Jersey, about 20 mintues from Atlantic City, and attended Oakcrest High School, where he worked as a Scare Actor at the Eastern State Penitentiary ghost tours, then the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.  In 2014, he transferred to Columbia College in Hollywood to be closer to his writing and directing goals.  

The bad news:

I can't find plot synopses for any of the shorts that he has written:

Research (2015)

Kaleidoscope Kids (2021)

Thanks for Having Me (2024)

The good news: Johnny has some beefcake and modeling photos online, and maybe some gay-for-pay

The bad news: He is way, way, way obviously heterosexual.  Every third picture on his Instagram features his girlfriend.  Even when he's n*aked, there's a girl right nex to him.

See also: Seann William Scott: From homophobic to gay-positive roles, with three butts, two bulges, a dick, Kyle Gallner, and Gavin Munn

Kelton's nude photos, with new cock shots, Gavin, Jak, and a bonus fratboy

Reacher, Episode 3.1: The man-mountain buddy-bonds with a gay college student, and there are plot twists and d*cks

Mark Haynes: Psycho-slasher, leather daddy, singer, translator, pec fan