Michael Jackson death causes Bruno recut **UPDATED**
Submitted by Daniel Herrera on June 26, 2009 – 10:41 am5 Comments
Now that America seems infatuated with the king of pop and his untimely death, news comes today that to avoid bad PR and an awkward situation, Sasha Baron Cohen and crew had to rush to delete a scene from the film which poked fun at Michael and LaToya Jackson. Â no word yet if the cut will extend to all prints once the film is released or if the edit was just for yesterdays premiere at the Manns Chinese Theatre to avoid any uncomfortable silences from Jackson’s death.
**update** Universal has decided to completely remove the scene from all nationwide and worldwide prints now, and not just the showing at Manns Chinese Theatre.
Source: EW
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Thats really lame, part of the whole idea of bruno is to offend. I hope Sasha Baron Cohen isnt going soft on us. They could at least leave it in the dvd relese.
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June 27th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
based on the limited bonus features from his borat dvd i dont expect many on bruno, unless of couse by some miracle bruno turns out to be a bigger hit than borat we may see the deleted scenes. i do agree though that one of the biggest pulls of his two ali g characters is his offensiveness.
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I don’t think this little one-off joke will affect the film! Go Bruno!
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