From an interview with the cast of Sucker Punch, “Fight Club”, in NYLON:
“I had a very tame and mild love scene with Jon Hamm. It was like, heavy breathing and making out. It was hardly a sex scene. Baby Doll has been sexually taken advantage of by her stepfather, and the idea of the scene is that, at the end, she’s finally taking control of her own sexuality because she’s realised how she needs to find her own freedom. And it correlates with that sex scene. It’s her essentially coming on to him.
“[Jenna Malone, who plays Rocket in the movie says] ‘She’s in control!’
“Exactly! And I think that it’s great for this young girl to actually take control of her own sexuality. Well, the MPAA [Motion Picture Association of America] doesn’t like that. They don’t think a girl should ever be in control of her own sexuality because they’re from the Stone Age…”
The scene was cut.
Maybe if it had remained, Sucker Punch could have lived up to its girl-power hype and not amounted to what it did.
Related: Sucker Punch Review.
Image via IMDb.
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