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Bruce Willis is furious his famous "yippe-ki-yay, motherf****r" catchphrase has been cut from the new 'Die Hard' movie.
The 52-year-old actor - who reprises his role as maverick cop John McClane in the fourth instalment of the action franchise - is unhappy with the studio's decision to give Live Free or Die Hard a PG-13 rating because it restricted his swearing.
He said: "It does make it a little more difficult. They don't want to see a lot of blood squirting out of bad guys. You can still do a lot of horrific things - you just can't say the word 'f***' more than twice.
"Saying f*** every other sentence is part of the vernacular of 'Die Hard'."
Despite the language restrictions, Willis claims the film - in which he tackles an internet-based terrorist organisation - is just as good as the original 1988 movie.
"But we still have a pretty hard-core smash-mouth film," he told Vanity Fair magazine.
"I really wanted this one to live up to the first one, which I always thought was the only really good one."
- BANG! SHOWBIZ
