8 Times Movie Censorship Backfired

4. Florence Pugh's CGI Dress - Oppenheimer

Florence Pugh Oppenheimer
Universal Pictures

Director Christopher Nolan's latest effort, Oppenheimer, marks a number of firsts for the director. It's the first movie where he's recreated a nuclear explosion, the first where he's used Cillian Murphy as a lead, and also his first to feature some full-on nudity. Murphy and Florence Pugh share a number of love scenes in the film as the eponymous physicist and Communist activist Jean Tatlock respectively, with the latter going fully topless for each of them.

Full nudity tends to lead to a film getting an R-rating from the MPAA or a 15 by the BBFC. However, certain countries in the Middle East and Asia can often request that the offending content either be edited or removed in order to be considered for release. For Oppenheimer, securing a release in India and several Middle East countries meant both editing large chunks of the love scenes and for Pugh to be shrouded in a CGI dress for the scene where she and Murphy are sat on opposite chairs following a heated rendezvous.

It didn't take long for said dress to go viral on social media, with the computer-generated garment looking totally unconvincing.

Hilariously though, this isn't even the worst case of animation being used to cover up on-screen nudity.

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