<i>Bruno</i> DVD to include La Toya Jackson scene
La Toya Jackson scene in <i>Bruno</i> will be added to the DVD, which was removed after Michael Jackson's death.
The recklessly rude and raunchy Bruno film hastily removed a scene featuring La Toya Jackson after the unforeseen and heartbreaking death of her brother, Michael Jackson.
But not to fear, the film will include the ridiculous scene in its entirety when released on DVD Nov. 17.
In the 90-second scene, Sacha Baron Cohen's character Bruno, a 19-year-old Austrian fashion reporter, convinces Jackson to sit on a scantily clad Hispanic laborer, who is kneeling on his hands and knees. The two eat sushi off the bare stomach of another man, lying on a gurney, before Jackson grows suspicious and abruptly ends the interview. Bruno insists the man table and chair is the most cutting-edge fashion in furniture.
After Michael Jackson's death, the studio decided the scene was "in too poor taste" and cut it from the film just days before the Los Angeles premiere, according to the New York Daily News.
"Out of respect for the Jackson family, the filmmakers have decided to remove a small scene involving La Toya Jackson," said a Universal spokesperson.
