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An outraged Evan Rachel Wood has taken to Twitter to voice her displeasure at a “society that wants to shame women and put them down for enjoying sex.”
The protest comes after the actress saw the finished version of her film “Charlie Countryman”, directed by Fredrik Bond and also starring Shia LeBeuof.
The indie drama received an R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America due to “some brutal violence, language throughout, sexuality/nudity, and drug use.”
After initially premiering at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, a final bout of editing saw intimate scenes between Wood and LeBeouf’s characters deleted due to MPAA demands.
Evidently, after catching the newly edited version of the film, Wood was not happy:
After seeing the new cut of #CharlieCountryman I would like 2 share my disappointment with the MPAA, who thought it was necessary to…
— Evan Rachel Wood (@evanrachelwood) November 27, 2013
…censor a womans sexuality once again. The scene where the two main characters make "love" was altered because someone felt that seeing…
— Evan Rachel Wood (@evanrachelwood) November 27, 2013
…a man give a woman oral sex made people "uncomfortable" but the scenes in which people are murdered by having their heads blown off…
— Evan Rachel Wood (@evanrachelwood) November 27, 2013
…remained intact and unaltered. This is a symptom of a society that wants to shame women and put them down for enjoying sex, especially…
— Evan Rachel Wood (@evanrachelwood) November 27, 2013
…when (gasp) the man isn't getting off as well! Its hard for me to believe that had the roles been reversed it still would have been cut..
— Evan Rachel Wood (@evanrachelwood) November 27, 2013
…Accept that some men like pleasuring woman. Accept that woman don't have to just be fucked and say thank you…
— Evan Rachel Wood (@evanrachelwood) November 27, 2013
…We are allowed and entitled to enjoy ourselves. Its time we put our foot down…
— Evan Rachel Wood (@evanrachelwood) November 27, 2013
