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‘Wicked’ Movie Slapped With Green Skin Trigger Warning in U.K.

British Board of Film Classification guidelines for PG rated-movies state that discriminatory language or behavior “should be clearly disapproved of.”

Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, played by British actress and singer Cynthia Erivo experiences a troubled childhood as a result of being bullied for her green skin. Regulators also cited a disabled woman in a wheelchair being “treated in a condescending manner by able-bodied people,” and talking animals being “persecuted in a fantastical society,” as additional reasons for the content warning and PG rating. Writer Simon Evans mocked the content warning in an interview with The Daily Mail as “ridiculous and counter-productive at the best of times, dampening excitement, destroying creative, dramatic tension and creating a muffled atmosphere appropriate to an HR seminar than a movie.”

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