Chuck Norris is so tough that he doesn't need bad language to make his point. And the producers of The Expendables 2 wanted him in the movie bad enough that they were willing to clean things up a bit and hit a PG-13 rating as one of the conditions of Norris' contract.
Word of the Expendables rating restrictions came from Norris himself who told a Polish interview that he simply refuses to make R rated films.
You can watch the video below but Slashfilm have transcribed the salient part of the interview like this:
With The Expendables 2, you have a lot of hard language in there that means that means that young people won't be able to see it. I said, I don't do movies like that. I didn't do them in the past, I didn't do them on my TV series. I said, you have to cut out all the language, hardcore language or I can't do it. So they did, and Expendables is now a PG-13 film so kids can see it.
Word of the Expendables rating restrictions came from Norris himself who told a Polish interview that he simply refuses to make R rated films.
You can watch the video below but Slashfilm have transcribed the salient part of the interview like this:
With The Expendables 2, you have a lot of hard language in there that means that means that young people won't be able to see it. I said, I don't do movies like that. I didn't do them in the past, I didn't do them on my TV series. I said, you have to cut out all the language, hardcore language or I can't do it. So they did, and Expendables is now a PG-13 film so kids can see it.