Richard Madden’s bottom sure is a troublemaker.

Remember when the mere reveal of it in Bodyguard damn near broke the internet last year? Well, we do. We remember it so distinctly, as if its tasteful exposure in episode two were only yesterday. (“One of the residents at the care home I work at – she’s 98 – told me she loves Bodyguard mainly because she’s in love with Richard Madden, especially his bum,” one tweet at the time read.)

And then, in March, there was the news that Madden’s bottom – as seen in the forthcoming Elton John biopic Rocketman – was causing a ruckus behind the scenes on that movie. According to a Daily Mail report, the director of Rocketman was being pressured into cutting the film’s sex scene between stars Madden and Taron Egerton, in character as John and his manager John Reid.

Rocketman is the first major studio movie to finally depict gay sex