Qantas apologizes after R-rated film played on every screen during Sydney-Tokyo flight | CNN

Things got unexpectedly heated on a recent Qantas flight when an R-rated film was played on all the plane's screens.

Passengers on a flight from Sydney to Tokyo's Haneda Airport last week were unable to select individual movies due to a technical issue with the inflight entertainment system, according to an Australian Airlines statement confirming the incident to CNN.

“Our crew members had a limited list of movies that they were able to play across all the screens on the plane and at the request of several passengers, a specific movie was selected for the entire flight,” the statement said.

Although Qantas did not name the movie in its statement, multiple images of inflight screens posted on social media by users claiming to be on the flight revealed the film to be “Daddy”.

Drama of 2023 Rated R by the US Motion Pictures Association for “intense language, sexual content and brief graphic nudity” starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn.

In addition to the nudity, the movie has “a lot of sexting — the kind where you can literally read the text on the screen without headphones,” according to a post by a Reddit user on the flight.

“It took about an hour before they switched to a more kid-friendly movie, but it was very uncomfortable for everyone, especially the families and kids on board,” the post said, which included images of phone texts shown in the film, and notable passengers. They were unable to pause or turn off the screen

In its statement, Qantas said crews initially tried to fix screens for customers who did not want to watch the movie. Once it was confirmed that this was not possible they changed it to a children's film.

The airline said the cabin crew apologized to passengers, “especially those who complained about the content” and would follow up with them.

A Qantas spokesperson said: “The movie was clearly not suitable for playing throughout the flight and we sincerely apologize to customers for the experience.”

“All screens were changed to a family friendly movie for the rest of the flight, which is our standard practice for the rare case where individual movie selection is not possible. We are reviewing how the film was selected.”

Correction: An earlier version of this report incorrectly identified the star of the movie. He is Dakota Johnson.