If you notice the poster – Couples Retreat, the black couple played by Faizon Love and Kali Hawk, had roles that were featured as prominently as the other couples appearing in the movie. Then why did Universal Studios give them a big ol’ delete off the movie posters as they promote this film in the UK.

While a Universal rep explained that its intention was “to simplify the poster to actors who are most recognisable in international markets,” acknowledged the indelicacy of its honky-rific European campaign under the circumstances. But did it have to apologize? After all, Hawk had a pretty rational explanation of the film’s poster politics when she spoke last month to Movieline:

You know how you see on the poster, how I’m on it and my name is big? For most people, that billing was in their contract. My character started out so small and I had such a small agent at the time that I didn’t really have any negotiating power. After I got the movie and they saw what I could do, Vince [Vaughn] would actually write more scenes for me to do while we were shooting it, so getting on the poster and getting that star billing, that came later and that came from Vince, one of the producers on it.