Rocketman producer responds to ‘straight-washing’ claims and

Rocketman producer Matthew Vaughn has responded to the ‘straight-washing’ claims which have been made towards the movie.

The musical fantasy film depicts the story of Elton’s rise to fame, and it additionally portrays Elton John’s relationship with supervisor John Reid (Richard Madden), which incorporates intimate scenes between the 2.

There had been stories earlier this yr that steered a homosexual intercourse scene between John and Reid had been reduce from the movie, however this was swiftly denied by director Dexter Fletcher.

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Now, producer Vaughn has had his say on the straight-washing claims too, telling Digital Spy completely that they all the time knew what kind of movie they wished to make.

“We set out to make an R-rated movie. Our contract said it was an R-rated film,” Vaughn instructed us.

“When you cut a movie, you debate moments. No one was debating it for what rating it was; we were debating about whether it was the right thing creatively, you know?”

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Vaughn continued to say that it was a matter of giving the film the fitting steadiness, including: “Because the downward spiral with the medication, and throwing himself into as many lovers as he can, that stuff is – what is the phrase? It’s a steadiness, in order that we did not put individuals off the movie as a result of it was an excessive amount of of a downer, and never as a result of it was too courageous content material.

“So the truth that it was written about, was a bit uncommon […] I used to be just a little bit amazed that it even hit the press, as a result of modifying’s usually fairly a non-public factor that should not be attention-grabbing.

“But a bit of me was thrilled. I was like, ‘Wow, that means people are interested in the movie, because they’re talking about it’. So that side was good.”

The producer additionally admitted that he thinks comparable claims of ‘straight-washing’ being levelled at Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which was criticised for not absolutely exploring Freddie Mercury’s sexuality, is partly responsible for the curiosity round Rocketman‘s intercourse scenes.

“It was amazing how interested people were in it,” he continued. “I additionally suppose that it was extra of a spotlight as a result of with Bohemian Rhapsody […] I do not know what the time period is, however yeah, it had been straight-washed.

“They hadn’t gone into the medication and the homosexual intercourse. It was a really vanilla model of Freddie Mercury.

“But they supposed to make the vanilla model. So that is what I used to be saying. It was attention-grabbing. I do not suppose anybody was freaking out throughout the edit of that, which was odd. It was all the time going to be PG-13. So what had been individuals anticipating to see?”

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Rocketman‘s lead Taron Egerton additionally not too long ago addressed the accusations of straight-washing within the movie, saying: “He’s a gay icon. And who are we, as frankly heterosexual filmmakers, to not put that element of his story? How dare we. And that’s not what we did.”

Rocketman is out in UK cinemas now and on May 31 within the US.

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