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‘Twisters’ director Lee Isaac Chung explains why kiss scene was cut from film’s climax
Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung has revealed his reasons for cutting a kiss scene at a pivotal point in the film.Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos and more, the disaster film — a stand-alone sequel to the 1996 movie Twister — centres on a group of storm chasers trying to diffuse tornadoes with sodium polyacrylate solution.It transpired that Edgar-Jones and Powell’s characters shared a kiss in one cut of the film, but it didn’t make it into the final edit. Set footage of the kiss went viral online in the days before Twisters arrived in cinemas, leaving fans disappointed to learn that it wasn’t in the final cut.Speaking about the decision, Chung told Collider: “I have to say, I like both versions and there were many arguments made to have them kiss.