Just a month after Eternals suffered the same fate, Steven Spielberg's WestSideStory has fallen foul of regional censors, this time supposedly over the inclusion of a transgender character
adaptation will not screen in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman or Kuwait,In Saudi Arabia and Kuwait — considered the strictest in terms of censorship — the film wasn’t granted a release certificate. In the remaining countries, censors requested cuts that Disney refused to make.
The film had been due for release on Dec. 9 and was on all major cinema websites.that the decision was due to the character Anybodys, written as transgender in the new adaptation and played by nonbinary actress Iris Menas. With homosexuality officially illegal across the Gulf, films that feature any LGBTQ references or issues often fall foul of the censors.
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