A Twitter user is going viral aftercatching an unusual change in theDisney version of a classic rom-com.The eagle-eyed viewer, Allison Pregler,shared her discovery after watching theDisney Plus version of the 1984 movie “Splash”.The film stars Tom Hanks as a man whofalls in love with a woman, played byDaryl Hannah, who is secretly a mermaid.In one scene, Hannah’s character runs awayfrom Hanks and returns to the sea, revealingher bare backside as she enters the water.However, in the Disney Plus version,viewers see something notably different.“Disney+ didn’t want butts on theirplatform so they edited Splashwith digital fur technology,”Pregler wrote of the scene.Pregler’s tweet shows that in the DisneyPlus version, Hannah’s hair is digitally editedso it appears to cover her entire backside.The clip spawned a wave of reactions fromTwitter users.
Many called the changes to themovie, which is originally rated PG, overly “prude”.“There comes a point when nuditycensorship crosses a line into creepyprudishness, this is it,” one user wrote.Disney confirmed to CNN that it has editedthe movie, although the company didn’t specifywhat other scenes may have been changed.This isn’t the first time the brand has changed a filmon its platforms either — in March, several TikTokusers noticed that a segment of the animated movie“Lilo and Stitch” had also been edited for Disney Plus.Meanwhile, fans of “The Bachelor” — whichairs on the Disney-owned channel ABC —noticed an unusual method for editing bikinisduring the show’s most recent season
