Saturday 6 September 2008

Seth Rogen Drug Scene Was Cut From Pineapple Express

A drug-dealing scene from new comedy Pineapple Express has been edited for the UK, Seth Rogen has claimed.

The chart-topping stoner film sees Rogen as marijuana smoking compartment Dale Denton who witnesses a mangle and is forced to go on the lead with his drug dealer Saul Silver (James Franco).

And according to Knocked Up star Rogen, a scene in which his and Franco's characters sell drugs to school children has been emended for UK audiences.

"In the American rendering of the scene we also smoke weed with them and hang knocked out," he told BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat programme.

"It's a really explicit scene of us acquiring high with these 11-year-olds. I cerebrate for the UK they've kind of softened it a second."

The 26-year-old actor added that he did non feel the film's content was inapplicable for the US, where it has an R rating.

"We had no moral obligation with this pic. I beggarly it's an R-rated movie, you have to be 17 in order to see it so we figure at that eld you're an adult

"I've been eyesight R-rated movies since I was 12 years previous and I'm OK! Not really."

Pineapple Express, rated 15 in the UK, is released on September 22nd.





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