Olivia Wilde Wanted Oral Sex and More in ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Trailer, but MPA Forced Cuts: ‘I Was Upset About That’
variety.comZack Sharf “Don’t Worry Darling” broke the internet with its first trailer, which included a scene in which Harry Styles’ character performs oral sex on Florence Pugh’s character on a dining room table.
It turns out there would’ve been even more provocative scenes featured in the trailer had director Olivia Wilde gotten her way.
The filmmaker told the Associated Press that the MPA ratings board “came down hard” on the original cut of the trailer and forced her to remove additional scenes that were deemed too risqué. “There’s a lot that had to be taken out of the trailer,” Wilde said when asked by the AP about including a “sex act” in the trailer. “The MPA came down hard on me and the trailer at the last second and I had to cut some shots, which I was upset about because I thought they it took it up another notch.
But of course we still live in a really puritanical society. I do think the lack of eroticism in American film is kind of new.
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