‘Rocketman’ Blaz Trail as First Major Stud Film to Depict Gay Male Sex – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• ROCKETMAN'S GAY SEX SCENE IS A BIG STEP THE RIGHT DIRECTN
• 'ROCKETMAN' STAR TARON EGERTON ON GAY STORYLE: 'I'M VERY PROUD THAT OUR MOVIE PUTS ONT AND CENTER'
• ROCKETMAN: ELTON JOHN MOVIE HAS ‘EXPLIC’ GAY SEX SCEN, TARON EGERTON REVEALS
• ROCKETMAN'S GAY MALE SEX SCEN ARE THE FIRST FROM A MAJOR STUD
• PARAMOUNT WANT TO CENSOR ELTON JOHN GAY SCENE 'ROCKETMAN'
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
• ‘ROCKETMAN’ BLAZ TRAIL AS FIRST MAJOR STUD FILM TO DEPICT GAY MALE SEX

ROCKETMAN'S GAY SEX SCENE IS A BIG STEP THE RIGHT DIRECTN

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'ROCKETMAN' STAR TARON EGERTON ON GAY STORYLE: 'I'M VERY PROUD THAT OUR MOVIE PUTS ONT AND CENTER'

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ROCKETMAN: ELTON JOHN MOVIE HAS ‘EXPLIC’ GAY SEX SCEN, TARON EGERTON REVEALS

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ROCKETMAN'S GAY MALE SEX SCEN ARE THE FIRST FROM A MAJOR STUD

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PARAMOUNT WANT TO CENSOR ELTON JOHN GAY SCENE 'ROCKETMAN'

While there have been a few chaste sex scen between men Osr-nomated movi through the years cludg Brokeback Mounta and Call Me by Your Name, the Elton John bpic Rocketman om Paramount is the first major stud film to tly pict gay male sex, acrdg to The Hollywood film stars Taron Edgerton as the inic glam rocker and Richard Madn (Bodyguard) as John's manager and first male lover, John Reid. Taron Egerton, who will play Elton John the forthg bpic “Rocketman, ” rpond to claims that Paramount attempted to cut out a gay sex scene om the bpic.

Taron Egerton Calls Paramount’s Attempt to Cut Out ‘Rocketman’ Gay Sex Scene ‘Nonsense’. Paramount want to cut an Elton John nu scene om RocketmanParamount Studs reportedly want director Dexter Fletcher to cut a forty send gay scene om Rocketman, which picts Taron Egerton’s Elton John and Richard Madn’s John Reid naked bed together, so that the bpic n be rated a 12A the UK and a PG 13 the Daily Mail have alleged that Fletcher and producer Matthew Vghn are currently a stand-off wh the Hollywood behemoth over the scene qutn, which the publitn sists has been “tastefully done, ” se Elton John and his lover/manager John Reid naked bed together wh their “rrier [on] display. Fans of Brish actor Tom Holland have e to his fense after some social media ers were seemgly upset that the latt episo of his Apple TV+ seri The Crowd Room featured gay the scene, Holland’s character go to a club wh heavy black eyeler and all black.

”A lot of other ers, however, seemed very nfed over the backlash, pecially sce Spir-Man actors Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield have also played gay person wrote, “Watchg agile cishet men have breakdowns over the reason Tom Holland is trendg is sweet we to me.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS

”“The fact that a sgle scene on an Apple Pl show featurg Tom Holland has brought out so much homophobia om the stupist people is...

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Where other studs have balked, Paramount is leadg the way as the first major stud to pict gay male sex onscreen wh s Elton John bpic, Rocketman. The Dexter Fletcher-helmed film, which ma s long-awaed but at the Cann Film Ftival on Thursday night, featured multiple scen wh overt gay uplg, cludg on between Taron Egerton, who plays John, and Richard Madn (portrayg his first gay lover, mic manager John Reid). In the ’70s and early ’80s, gay male sex ocsnally popped up films om pani that might be parable to a Paramount today.

‘ROCKETMAN’ BLAZ TRAIL AS FIRST MAJOR STUD FILM TO DEPICT GAY MALE SEX

For stance, Uned Artists backed the 1980 Al Paco thriller Cisg, about a serial killer targetg gay men. But recent s, the prospect of major studs pictg steamy gay sex has bee a nonstarter. The 1982 Harry Haml starter Makg Love also broke ground at the time for pictg a gay male uple.

Given that an R-rated movie featurg gay sex would most certaly disqualify a film om release Cha (to sre a release the lucrative terrory, Bohemian Rhapsody eded out any suggtn that Freddie Mercury was gay), the studs are creasgly hant to greenlight a film wh gay characters, never md graphic gay sex. For his part, Egerton, who intifi as heterosexual, is surprised by all the hullabaloo surroundg the film’s gay sex scen.