Disney+ leaves Hugh Jackman’s bare butt uncensored in X-Men: Days of Future Past

2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past is probably one of the better X-Men movies from Fox’s run on the series. It’s got a lot of good action, a time-traveling plot that’s still pretty easy to follow, and that scene where Quicksilver runs through a kitchen really really fast dodging bullets like it’s no big thing:

That’s gotta be one of the best scenes from the past 20 years of X-Men movies, right?

There’s also a bit where Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is sent back into the past and wakes up naked and jacked as hell in a motel room, walking over to the window to get a view of the street in 1973. The movie is PG-13, but we do see a shot of Wolverine’s bare ass.

Days of Future Past has now arrived on Disney+, and fans are a little surprised to see that the posterior shot hasn’t been edited out for airing on the studio’s family-friendly streaming service, nor has an F-bomb dropped elsewhere in the movie. This one pushed the limits of PG-13, didn’t it?

Hugh Jackman sounded the alarm about this himself, posting a picture of his behind to his Instagram — possibly to have some fun, possibly to humble-brag about what tremendous shape he was in at the time; it’s impossible to know.

“Excited for them to do the same for Deadpool,” commented Ryan Reynolds. “It’s time children knew.”

Now, you might think this post is just a thin excuse to have a laugh at the naughty idea of nudity appearing on a streaming platform aimed mostly at kids and families, and it indeed mostly that. But there is a slightly deeper layer. Disney chose to not to censor Wolverine’s behind, but it took some heat back in April when the movie Splash — a romantic comedy about Tom Hanks falling for a mermaid played by Daryl Hannah — landed on the service. For that release, Disney digitally extended Hannah’s hair so it covered up her exposed behind during an intimate moment. Why, you might ask, would Disney want to censor a woman’s body but not a man’s?

As of this moment, Disney has no comment, so feel free to come to your own conclusions.

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h/t Variety