References suggesting that Kate is Stuart's great-great-grandmother were censored from the film just a few days before the theatrical release, according to director James Mangold, due to "2 critics who were horrified by Liev Schreiber 's distant relationship to Leo". The previous four-year-long relationship of Stuart and Kate is classified as illegally incestuous in many jurisdictions, because she is his lineal ancestor (see Legality of incest#Table).