If you grew up from the 1990s on, chances are Disney Channel Original Movies (a.k.a. DCOMs) bring you all the childhood nostalgia. Hilary Duff got her own DCOM in the middle of her Lizzie McGuire fame in the form of Cadet Kelly. While it’s not officially classified as an LGBTQ+ movie, over the years a lot of people have been talking about their thoughts on the movie having a queer subtext, and Duff just addressed it.
2002’s Cadet Kelly follows the titular teenager (Duff) who gets sent off to military school. There she finds herself at odds with Cadet Captain Jennifer Stone (played by Christy Carlson Romano), especially when they start to fight for the attention of their common crush Cadet Major Brad Rigby (Shawn Ashmore). Here’s what Duff said about the TV film while revisiting it with Vanity Fair:
