In the wake of the MeToo movement, Disney appears to have removed a casting-couch clip from 1999's 'Toy Story 2.'
The far-reaching #MeToo and Time’s Up movements have hit the Walt Disney Co. yet again, resulting in the reported deletion of a 20-year-old casting-couch scene in “Toy Story 2.”
The scene, which appears in a faux blooper reel at the end of the 1999 animated film, is no longer part of new home-entertainment releases, according to several reports. That likely means it also won’t appear on the streaming version of the film when Disney launches Disney+ in November. The deletion was first noted in online forums when Disney re-released the “Toy Story” trilogy on 4K, Blu-ray, DVD and digital HD formats ahead of “Toy Story 4’s” theatrical release in June.The outtake-style clip
features Tom Hanks’ Woody interrupting a surreptitious meeting between the collectible Prospector toy, Stinky Pete, and twin Barbie dolls inside a toy box. Pete, a villain in the film, ogles, strokes and suggestively talks to the dolls and implies that he can get them parts in “Toy Story 3.” The so-called casting couch — when bosses lord their power over fledgling actresses and actors — has essentially become a microcosm of the power imbalance in Hollywood and beyond. It looks like Disney recognized that its mere suggestion no longer has a place in its family-friendly films.
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