Peter Jackson: Disney wanted to remove profanity from The Beatles docuseries Get Back

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The nearly eight-hour docuseries features some smoking and cursing, which is frowned upon on Disney+. While the docuseries contains the disclaimer “This footage contains explicit language, mature themes, and smoking," Jackson tells NME that Disney wanted the profanity removed. But The Beatles said no. “Paul (McCartney) describes it as being very raw,” says Jackson. “He said to me: ‘That is a very accurate portrayal of how we were then.’ Ringo (Starr) said: ‘It’s truthful.’ The truthfulness of it is important to them. They don’t want a whitewash. They don’t want it to be sanitized. Disney wanted to remove all the swearing and Ringo, Paul, and Olivia (Harrison) said: ‘That’s how we spoke. That’s how we talked. That’s how we want the world to see us.'”