Bohemian Rhapsody premiered in China on Friday to a limited audience with four minutes of the film cut out by the state censorship department.
Scenes about Freddie Mercury’s sexuality and drug use were chopped to meet Chinese legal requirements that include a ban on depicting homosexual relationships in the media.
Chinese broadcaster Mango TV have copped heavy criticism over the last year after censoring pro-LGBTQI aspects from Rami Malek’s Academy Award acceptance speech and from the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest.