Entertainment correspondent, BBC News in Los Angeles<\/span>
\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\nThe King’s Speech is set to be released in the US in a swearing-free version to open it up to younger audiences, its director Tom Hooper has confirmed.<\/p>\n
The film was given an R rating last year for the scene in which Colin Firth’s character is encouraged by a speech therapist to swear to overcome a stammer.<\/p>\n
The day before the Oscars, Hooper said the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) was willing to give the film a PG-13 rating if the audio of the swearing was dipped. <\/p>\n
An R rating in the US means no-one under 17 is able to see the film without an adult. <\/p>\n
“I’m certainly very unhappy that kids are discouraged from seeing it here. I think it’s a film that touches on so many issues to do with childhood,” Hooper said at the Independent Film Awards in Santa Monica, California on Saturday.<\/p>\n
“Particularly, the film has the message ‘please don’t carry the trauma of childhood throughout your adult life’.”<\/p>\n
He said he thought children who had been through tough experiences, like bullying, would connect with the story of George VI’s attempts to overcome his speech impediment.<\/p>\n
“Unselfishly, I think if it brings the film to that younger audience it will be great because in the UK and Canada I’ve had a lot e-mails from eight and nine-year-olds who have been incredibly affected by it – so why would I want to limit it?”<\/p>\n
In the UK, the film’s original rating of 15 was changed to 12A by the British Board of Film Classification after an appeal by the film’s UK distributors.<\/p>\n
The BBFC said it had “applied its formal reconsideration process” and decided the language was not aggressive or directed at any person.<\/p>\n
A similar appeal in the US last year to lower the film’s R rating was not successful. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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