He censored actor Jeremy Allen White's "Jesus Christ!" from his acceptance speech at Sunday's Emmy Awards. exclamation from ABC commercial television.
As reported by the foreign press, Jeremy Allen White, who won the award for the best actor in a comedy series for the second year in a row, gave a short acceptance speech at the 76th Emmy Awards held in Los Angeles on Sunday night local time, in which he expressed his delight. for the recognition and thanked him for the cooperation with his colleagues.
In one of his sentences, a commonly used expression of enthusiasm, wonder, and rapture in the English language, "Jesus Christ!" he used an exclamation, and these two words were replaced by the word whistle on American television - exactly the way television used to censor swear words or words that do not tolerate printing ink.
The 33-year-old actor Jeremy Allen White was awarded for his performance in the series The Bear. As news.ro wrote, the actor's two words were censored to "not offend religious sensibilities."
There was a delay of a few seconds between the ceremony and the television broadcast, so that there would be time to take action if something happened on stage that the channel could not broadcast. American media reported that Scotsman Richard Gadd's My Little Reindeer Netflix series - which won six Emmy Awards -
both its creator and its main character were condemned for dropping the word "Jesus Christ".
The IndieWire portal, which follows the movements of film production and also deals with film criticism, published an opinion article on the case with the following title:
“Jesus Christ, We're Bleeping 'Jesus Christ' Now?
that is, "Jesus! Are we now censoring Jesus Christ with a whistle?".
Source: kronikaonline.ro
Cover photo: Jeremy Allen White / Facebook
