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Bruno scene cut
La Toya Jackson's part has been removed from Sacha Baron Cohen's new film following brother Michael's death.
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- Published: 22:43 June 27, 2009
La Toya Jackson's part has been removed from Sacha Baron Cohen's new film following brother Michael's death.
The filmmakers behind Brüno have decided to delete a scene involving La Toya Jackson following her brother's death.
Universal Pictures, which is releasing the comedy, said the decision came "out of respect for the Jackson family".
The moment was first cut out of the movie's Los Angeles premiere on Thursday night, which took place just hours after Michael Jackson's death at age 50.
Brüno, starring British comic Sacha Baron Cohen as a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion correspondent, is set to be released on July 10 and is the follow-up to his 2006 smash Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
La Toya Jackson had been featured in an absurd interview with Brüno in which she sits on a Mexican man's back and eats sushi off a second, naked Mexican man.
He also tries to interview Paula Abdul in this setting, but she quickly feels uncomfortable and leaves.
Jackson arrives at a contemporary LA home under the guise of being interviewed by Brüno, a character Baron Cohen introduced alongside Borat on his sketch comedy program Da Ali G Show.
Because there's no furniture in the house, Brüno asks Jackson to sit on the back of a Mexican labourer, who's on his hands and knees functioning as a chair. Another man serves as a table with pieces of sushi spread across his naked body.
Jackson hangs out awhile and politely banters with Brüno, who asks whether she will introduce him to her brother, Michael.
She tries to deflect his persistent requests but relents when he asks to see her cell phone - then he finds what is supposedly Michael Jackson's number and reads it to his assistant in German.
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