PopGoesTheNews.com A poster for the hockey comedy Goon is evidently too racy for Toronto. About 40 copies of the poster, which shows Canadian actor Jay Baruchel striking a sexually suggestive pose with his tongue and fingers, were stripped from bus shelters on Wednesday.
At the Toronto premiere of Goon at the Scotiabank Theatre, Baruchel said the City of Toronto is being "uptight" and cited the decision to remove the posters as another example of the cultural divide between Ontario and Quebec. (Baruchel was born in Ottawa but raised in Montreal.)
But Baruchel's co-star Liev Schreiber said that as a father of two young children he can "appreciate somebody being offended or not wanting that out there on the streets."
The posters had been up for about two weeks. A city official claims there was no order to remove the posters but it did pass complaints on to the company responsible for outdoor advertising.
The brouhaha over the poster can only help draw attention to Goon, which was shot in Winnipeg and opens in cinemas on Friday.
See photos of the Goon stars in Toronto at StarsInCanada.com.
