It looks like Russian viewers who were hoping to experience screen legends Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci's latest gay drama Supernova are losing out, because the film is, unfortunately, the latest victim of antigay censorship.
According to a report from The Moscow Times, an intimate scene from the film was cut out by Supernova's Russian distributor World Pictures because of the country's infamous "gay propaganda" law, which prohibits LGBTQ+ visibility in venues accessible to minors.
It also warned critics not to use "gay" in film reviews. Now, the film's director Harry Macqueen, is breaking his silence in regards to the censorship. "We the filmmakers object in the strongest possible terms to the censorship of Supernova in Russia," Macqueen