According to a Delta spokesperson, the airline will restore previously omitted gay sex scenes from “Booksmart” and “Rocketman.” Earlier this week, “Booksmart” director Olivia Wilde expressed dismay over the in-flight censorship of a key moment from her acclaimed summer comedy, which finds the characters played by Kaitlyn Dever and Diana Silvers making out in a bathroom during a party and proceeding to have sex until Dever’s Amy throws up. (The latest news from Delta was originally reported by BuzzFeed.)
“We are immediately putting a new process in place for managing content available through Delta’s in-flight entertainment,” spokeswoman Emma Protis told Variety. Also being restored is a gay sex scene in the film “Rocketman” between Taron Egerton and Richard Madden. The Elton John biopic features the most explicit depiction of guy-on-guy sex in a mainstream film since 2005’s “Brokeback Mountain.”
According to Protis, the cut scenes were not the decision of the airline,...
“We are immediately putting a new process in place for managing content available through Delta’s in-flight entertainment,” spokeswoman Emma Protis told Variety. Also being restored is a gay sex scene in the film “Rocketman” between Taron Egerton and Richard Madden. The Elton John biopic features the most explicit depiction of guy-on-guy sex in a mainstream film since 2005’s “Brokeback Mountain.”
According to Protis, the cut scenes were not the decision of the airline,...
- 11/2/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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