They foolishly cut one of the best scenes from the movie (but not the trailer)

I hate when there’s stuff in the trailer that’s not in the movie, but that’s another discussion. This scene, according to Curtis, would have taken audience sympathy away from Jack. I don’t really agree, and maybe he means other scenes involving the same character Roxanne. But just keeping this one scene and not following up with that character surely would have been no problem.

Here’s the full scene in question, starting at 15:52: https://youtu.be/N3LL_epyiuA

And here’s an article where Curtis describes why it was taken out despite his acknowledging that it’s a lovely scene—with a great joke that I didn’t actually catch when watching it on the Blu-ray deleted scenes:


https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2475654/yesterday-cut-an-entire-character-from-the-film-that-would-have-changed-the-plot