Taron Egerton hits out at Russia for censoring Rocketman’s gay sex scenes

"Love is love. No compromises."

Taron Egerton has slammed Russia for censoring equal-sex scenes in the Elton John biopic, Rocketman.

On facebook, one Russian journalist demonstrated that "all scenes with kissing, intercourse and oral intercourse between guys had been reduce out."

one more introduced that scenes depicting drug use had been cut. In all, 5 minutes of the movie had been reduce, together with a photograph of Sir Elton with his husband, David Furnish, shown within the credits.

Olga Lyubimova, the head of the culture Ministry's cinema branch, advised Tass that no specific restrictions were placed on the film, but movies had to abide by Russia's laws on "paedophilia, ethnic and religious hatred and pornography."

Writing on Instagram, Taron – who plays Sir Elton within the severely-acclaimed film – stated: "i'm crestfallen that the determination became made to censor our film for the Russian market.

"I'm even more disenchanted to listen to about it 2d hand these days on the day of our home liberate. I by no means condone this choice and believe disillusioned I wasn't made mindful and given the probability to battle this move. Love is love. No compromises."

Over the weekend, Sir Elton also criticised their choice. In a statement on social media, he said: "We reject in the strongest possible terms the determination to censor Rocketman for the Russian market, a circulate we were unaware of until these days.

"Paramount pictures had been courageous and bold partners in allowing us to create a film which is a true representation of Elton's brilliant lifestyles, warts and all.

"That the local distributor has discovered it essential to edit out definite scenes, denying the viewers the probability to look the movie because it became meant is a sad reflection of the divided world we nonetheless reside in and the way it may possibly still be so cruelly unaccepting of the love between two individuals.

"We trust in constructing bridges and open talk, and may continue to push for the breaking down of boundaries except all individuals are heard equally across the world."

Rocketman, which additionally stars Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard and Stephen Graham, made background through fitting the primary essential Hollywood production to show a gay male intercourse scene on-monitor.

Watch the trailer for Rocketman under.

Rocketman is in cinemas now.