WICKED Movie Gets Trigger Warning In UK For ‘Upsetting’ Response to Green Skin [Video]

The Wicked movie has received a trigger warning in the U.K. for “discrimination.”

The British Board of Film Classification has ruled that audiences may find seeing “beloved characters” being mistreated as “upsetting and poignant,” the Daily Beast reports.

Several scenes of the film show Elphaba being bullied and ridiculed for her green skin, including during her childhood and as she arrives at Shiz University.

In 2021, the BBFC revealed that parents would like content warnings on racism and discrimination being shown in media so they can make informed decisions. The research also concluded that some parents found value in exposing their children to instances of discrimination to “prepare them for real life.”

Regulators also found that a woman in a wheelchair being “treated in a condescending manner by able-bodied people” is an additional factor for the content warning, as well as talking animals being “persecuted in a fantastical society.” These details stem from characters …