{"id":199562,"date":"2021-03-08T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=199562"},"modified":"2021-03-08T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T15:30:09","slug":"pepe-le-pew-cut-from-space-jam-2-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pepe-le-pew-cut-from-space-jam-2-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepe Le Pew Cut From \u2018Space Jam 2\u2019 Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpepe-le-pew-cut-from-space-jam-2-movie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=199562&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pew-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The amorous French skunk Pepe Le Pew won\u2019t be making an appearance in the upcoming sequel to \u201cSpace Jam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The news comes shortly after a New York Times columnist claimed the animated skunk featured in Loony Tune cartoons \u201cperpetuates rape culture,\u201d according to Deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeadline has learned that a hybrid live-action animation scene between Jane the Virgin actress Greice Santo and Pepe Le Pew, shot back in June 2019 for Space Jam 2 was left on the cutting room floor,\u201d Deadline <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/03\/pepe-le-pew-space-jam-2-new-york-times-rape-culture-controversy-1234708688\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe live-action scene was filmed by the pic\u2019s first director, Terence Nance. As we first reported in July 2019, Nance left the production with Malcolm D. Lee taking over. Under the direction of Lee, Pepe Le Pew was eliminated from the sequel a while ago and never animated for the live-action footage which was shot. According to sources who saw a rough cut three months ago, they didn\u2019t see any kind of cameo by the skunk,\u201d Deadline wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author__byline\">\n<div class=\"u-flex u-align-items-center a-glue-parent\">\n<p class=\"pmc-u-margin-tb-00 pmc-u-font-size-14\">While the writer, Anthony D\u2019Alessandro, said Pepe\u2019s firing from \u201cSpace Jam: A New Legacy\u201d has nothing to do with the recent remarks made by The New York Times<em>\u2019<\/em> Charles Blow, he wrote \u201cwait until you hear about the scene with Pepe which was cut.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Pepe was set to appear in a black-and-white&nbsp;Casablanca-like Rick\u2019s Cafe sequence. Pepe, playing a bartender, starts hitting on a woman at the bar played by Santo. He begins kissing her arm, which she pulls back, then slamming Pepe into the chair next to hers. She then pours her drink on Pepe, and slaps him hard, sending him spinning in a stool, which is then stopped by LeBron James\u2019 hand. James and Bugs Bunny are looking for Lola, and Pepe knows her whereabouts. Pepe then tells the guys that Penelope cat has filed a restraining order against him. James makes a remark in the script that Pepe can\u2019t grab other Tunes without their consent.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Blow wrote in his column that \u201cSome of the first cartoons I can remember included Pepe Le Pew, who normalized rape culture; Speedy Gonzales, whose friends helped popularize the corrosive stereotype of the drunk and lethargic Mexicans; and Mammy Two Shoes, a heavyset Black maid who spoke in a heavy accent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After criticism, the columnist wrote on Twitter that&nbsp;right-wing blogs \u201care mad bc I said Pepe Le Pew added to rape culture. Let\u2019s see. 1. He grabs\/kisses a girl\/stranger, repeatedly, w\/o consent and against her will. 2. She struggles mightily to get away from him, but he won\u2019t release her. 3. He locks a door to prevent her from escaping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis helped teach boys that \u2018no\u2019 didn\u2019t really mean no, that it was a part of \u2018the game,\u2019 the starting line of a power struggle. It taught overcoming a woman\u2019s strenuous, even physical objections, was normal, adorable, funny. They didn\u2019t even give the woman the ability to SPEAK,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amorous French skunk Pepe Le Pew won\u2019t be making an appearance in the upcoming sequel to \u201cSpace Jam.\u201d The news comes shortly after a New York Times columnist claimed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310269,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pew-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Pepe Le Pew Cut From \u2018Space Jam 2\u2019 Movie","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pew-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Pepe Le Pew Cut From \u2018Space Jam 2\u2019 Movie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}