Rose McGowan’s words about that controversial “X-Men” poster actually made a change

Yesterday, Charmed actress Rose McGowan made us all take a second look at the X-Men: Apocalypse posters we’ve been seeing around every corner. Specifically, she pointed out that there’s something wrong with the billboard featuring Oscar Isaac’s Apocalypse strangling Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique.

“There is a major problem when the men and women at 20th Century Fox think casual violence against women is the way to market a film. There is no context in the ad, just a woman getting strangled,” McGowan told The Hollywood Reporter. “So let’s right this wrong. 20th Century Fox, since you can’t manage to put any women directors on your slate for the next two years, how about you at least replace your ad?”

Now, Fox has responded. “In our enthusiasm to show the villainy of the character Apocalypse we didn’t immediately recognize the upsetting connotation of this image in print form,” stated the film studio. “Once we realized that how insensitive it was, we quickly took steps to replace those materials. We apologize to anyone offended by our actions.”

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