Michael Jackson’s death—and online images of a tearful La Toya Jackson running into the UCLA Medical Center—may be creating a dilemma for Universal Pictures and its upcoming release, Brüno.
The film, featuring Sacha Baron Cohen as an outrageous gay Austrian fashion maven, includes a sequence with Brüno conducting an interview with an unsuspecting La Toya Jackson, enticing her to eat sushi off the stomach of a nude Latino gardener and pestering her about her brother. Brüno tries to get Michael’s number from her phone.
It's an extremely funny bit, but will it be too insensitive?
Brüno will be released on July 10 and coincidentally, its US premier was last night in Hollywood.
Update: That scene was deleted from the premier last night. Producers felt it would be in bad taste to poke fun at LaToya hours after her brother died. It's still unknown if it will be deleted from the theatrical release on July 10. Brüno is already very short; it's only about 70 minutes long.
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