Jennifer Lopez stripper film Hustlers banned in Malaysia

Lili
Reinhart, Jennifer Lopez, Keke Palmer and Constance Wu star in Hustlers
A
film about scheming strippers starring Jennifer Lopez has been banned in
Malaysia because of its “excessive obscene content”.
The
country’s film censorship board said Hustlers’ naked breasts, erotic dances and
scenes featuring drugs made it “not suitable for public screening”.
Square
Box Pictures, the company distributing Hustlers in Malaysia, confirmed the ban
on social media.
The
film is currently riding high in both the US and UK box office charts.
In
Hustlers, a group of exotic dancers set out to fleece their wealthy clients.
The
film, which also stars Constance Wu and Julia Stiles alongside Lizzo and Cardi
B in smaller roles, is based on a true story and was inspired by a New York
Magazine article that went viral in 2015.
The
BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) gave the film a 15 certificate due
to its “sexualised nudity, strong sex references, language [and] drug misuse”.
Earlier
this year gay sex scenes in Rocketman were censored in Malaysia ahead of the
Elton John biopic’s release there.
Scenes
were also removed from the film in Russia, while it received an outright ban in
Egypt, Samoa and the Cook Islands.
Lili
Reinhart, Jennifer Lopez, Keke Palmer and Constance Wu star in Hustlers
A
film about scheming strippers starring Jennifer Lopez has been banned in
Malaysia because of its “excessive obscene content”.
The
country’s film censorship board said Hustlers’ naked breasts, erotic dances and
scenes featuring drugs made it “not suitable for public screening”.
Square
Box Pictures, the company distributing Hustlers in Malaysia, confirmed the ban
on social media.
The
film is currently riding high in both the US and UK box office charts.
In
Hustlers, a group of exotic dancers set out to fleece their wealthy clients.
The
film, which also stars Constance Wu and Julia Stiles alongside Lizzo and Cardi
B in smaller roles, is based on a true story and was inspired by a New York
Magazine article that went viral in 2015.
The
BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) gave the film a 15 certificate due
to its “sexualised nudity, strong sex references, language [and] drug misuse”.
Earlier
this year gay sex scenes in Rocketman were censored in Malaysia ahead of the
Elton John biopic’s release there.
Scenes
were also removed from the film in Russia, while it received an outright ban in
Egypt, Samoa and the Cook Islands.
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