Disney Says It Won’t Edit ‘Beauty and the Beast’ for Malaysian Censors<br />We approved it with a minor cut." He said the movie would have been shown with a PG-13 rating had Disney agreed to cut the scene.<br />Russia agreed last week to let "Beauty and the Beast" be shown there,<br />but it barred children under 16 from attending unless accompanied by someone over 16.<br />The film’s director, Bill Condon, has called the scene in question — involving a character named LeFou, manservant to the villain, Gaston — an "exclusively gay moment." The film, starring Emma Watson<br />and Dan Stevens and costing $300 million to make and market, is a live-action remake of Disney’s 1991 animated blockbuster of the same name.<br />Disney said that The film has not been and will not be cut for Malaysia,<br />The Film Censorship Board of Malaysia recently ruled<br />that a shot involving two male characters dancing in a ballroom must be cut from the movie, on the grounds that it promotes homosexuality.<br />By RICHARD C. PADDOCKMARCH 15, 2017<br />BANGKOK — Walt Disney Studios has refused to cut a brief, gay-themed scene from "Beauty<br />and the Beast" as demanded by government censors in Malaysia, meaning the film will not open there Thursday as scheduled.
