While this past weekend at the box office was a huge win for Barbie, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer helped make it one of the biggest box office weekends in history. In addition to its over $80 million taken at the box office domestically, the movie brought in nearly $100 million overseas. But it turns out not all those countries saw quite the same movie as the rest of us, as a scene of a topless Florence Pugh was censored throughout the Middle East, as well as in India.
Florence Pugh is topless in a couple of scenes in Oppenheimer but nudity is forbidden in movie theaters throughout the Middle East. In the case of most movies with nudity, this simply results in the offending scenes being edited from the film. But THR reports that in the case of one scene, which sees Pugh’s character and Cillian Murphy’s Oppenheimer having a conversation while both are naked, a CGI black dress was added to Pugh to cover her up. The same version of the scene was also used in India, where the movie has been given a UA rating, approximately equivalent to a PG-13.
