Lucifer bosses reveal NSFW scenes cut from final season

Lucifer's showrunners have spoken on a few rather NSFW scenes that didn't make the show's final cut.

The hit show came to an end after six seasons last year, though fans will be able to relive the final episodes all over again with the release of the last season on DVD.

Speaking ahead of the launch, showrunners Ildy Modrovich and Joe Henderson commented on some of the scenes they reined-in during the show's run on Netflix, joking about a potential orgy scene that was cut.

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"We should pitch it […] as a 'deleted scene'! [Laughs]," Modrovich told TVLine.

Henderson went on to further reveal: "In season 4, we played around a lot with saying f**k because it was sort of that question of: 'How edgy are we, how dark are we?'.

"So, we have a bunch of deleted scenes of the actors dropping F-bombs almost everywhere, because what we realized is we've got three seasons of show that consistently doesn't use that word, and also we have a show that people do unexpectedly watch with their family. So, we wanted to sort of maintain that tone and that world while also still playing with our new toys.

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"That's where the genesis of us finally using it in season 5 came from, us going: 'OK, if we're going to make this a very special thing, how do we hear it in the least special way possible?' – in as much as it's just Lucifer being as petty as possible."

Modrovich recalled that some of the actors used the Netflix move as a chance to improvise a bit, elaborating: "Our actors were like: 'Hey, we're on Netflix!'. So even if it wasn't even in the script half the time, they'd just be like: 'I really think I should say 'F**k you' here.' Then they'd say it and we'd just go: 'I think we shouldn't use it here.'"

During the interview, the pair also revealed that most of the season's deleted scenes were from episode 8.

"They were just big enough to actually be their own deleted scenes, but so often when you're sort of going through the connective tissue of episodes, you're trimming the tops and bottoms of them when you realize you don't necessarily need as much to set up where you're going," Henderson said. "These just happen to be longer scenes that were deleted."

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