The film-makers behind the Elton John musical fantasy Rocketman have clashed with a Hollywood studio over a naked sex romp featuring Taron Egerton, the picture’s star, and Bodyguard and Game Of Thrones leading man Richard Madden.
Paramount Pictures have demanded that Rocketman director Dexter Fletcher and producer Matthew Vaughn cut a 40-second scene that shows Egerton, who plays the singer and Madden, cast as his one-time lover and manager John Reid, writhing on a bed. Fully exposed white derrieres are on display, but the nude escapade is tastefully done.
Nonetheless, Paramount are forcing the director to cut the scene so it will have an American PG 13 rating (roughly the equivalent of a British 12A).
The film-makers behind the Elton John musical fantasy Rocketman have clashed with a Hollywood studio over a naked sex romp featuring Taron Egerton, the picture’s star, and Bodyguard and Game Of Thrones leading man Richard Madden (pictured together)
The studio’s argument about whitewashing any gay sensibility in the film could have something to do with Fox’s sanitised biopic of Freddie Mercury’s life, Bohemian Rhapsody.
It won several Oscars, including a gold best actor statuette for Rami Malek’s portrait of Mercury. But it also took close to one billion dollars globally in ticket sales. You can see how Paramount wouldn’t mind replicating that telephone number figure.
Paramount Pictures have demanded that Rocketman director Dexter Fletcher and producer Matthew Vaughn cut a 40-second scene that shows Egerton (pictured), who plays the singer and Madden, cast as his one-time lover and manager John Reid, writhing on a bed
What’s slightly odd is that Elton himself didn’t want anything hidden in Rocketman. He told the movie makers: ‘Tell it all. Go as R-rated as you need to.’ Pictured: Matthew Illesley, Taron Egerton and Director Dexter Fletcher on the set of Rocketman)
‘Two guys have a naked cuddle to express their love for each other and that will be reduced to a fully dressed warm hello. The world knows Elton’s gay. It’s no secret,’ said my source, who worked on the film.
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