'Red, White & Royal Blue' Director Addresses Movie's R Rating, What He Added to Script After Rating was Official
justjared.comRed, White & Royal Blue, Prime Videos’ R-rated, queer rom-com, tells the story of the First Son of the United States falling in love with a Prince of England.
While fans of the Casey McQuiston novel that the movie is based on were excited by the rating, director Matthew Lopez recently admitted that he was a “little surprised” by it.
He opened up about the decision in an interview ahead of the movie’s August 11 premiere. The director also revealed what he added more of to the script once the rating was finalized. Head inside to read more about Red, White & Royal Blue’s R rating… “I think I was a little surprised at the R rating just because, while I never was encouraged to limit what we were showing or limit what I was depicting, the scene is what I intended to show.
It plays exactly how I wanted it to play,” he recently told People. “But I do question whether or not if it had been a man and a woman, if we’d still gotten an R rating.” Matthew stressed that he was able to make the movie that he wanted and was not pressured to keep the content to a PG-13 rating.
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