Author: Zack Sharf / Source: IndieWire
[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for “A Star Is Born.”]
“A Star Is Born” is getting a minor tweak for its theatrical release in New Zealand (via The Guardian). David Shanks, the head of the New Zealand film classification board, has demanded the Warner Bros.
film include a suicide warning note before the movie begins. The request was made after the film board received word that “two young people had been ‘severely triggered’ after watching the scene in which Bradley Cooper’s character hangs himself in his garage.”According to The Guardian, the country’s Mental Health Foundation reported similar complaints about the film’s suicide to the New Zealand film board. The movie was originally rated M (“unrestricted, suitable for 16 years and over”) for “sex scenes, offensive…
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