HBO Unapologetic Over Big Love Scene
Mar 24th, 2009 by emerchant
HBO is trying not to make a slightly awkward situation worse by not apologizing for airing a sacred Mormon religious ceremony depicted on the show.
The scene depicts a revered ceremony involving the entrance into the Mormon church. Actress Jeanne Tripplehorn is the lucky actress to go through with it. There’s secret handshakes and veils and people walking around in all white. It’s much like a dream sequence from a Polanski movie. To describe it would be rather difficult, and HBO pulled it from online so I guess you’ll need to use your imagination.
Its mostly just a quick handshake and a veil and a bit of crying at the end. Sounds not unlike my Prom. Well, The Church Of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints is livid. As of today the higher ups of the Church have not released a full statement, but according to a number of reports a lot of elder Mormons are mad that the scene was even shown at all, saying that it was “completely unnecessary” and “downright rude”. Interestingly enough, the whole scene was helped to be created by an ex Mormon who taught others how to do such events Brent D. Payne, who describes the finished scene as “quite accurate”. You’d think for the guy who told the writers how to make it it would be “very accurate”. So it goes.