Qantas apologizes for playing R-rated 'Daddy' on flight: “Clearly not appropriate”
A few months after its release, Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn father Recently had a captive visitor.
Qantas Airways recently apologized to passengers on a flight from Sydney to Japan after starring in the R-rated Christy Hall drama, which one traveler described as “40 minutes of sex and breasts”.
A Qantas spokesman said: “It was clearly not appropriate to play the movie throughout the flight and we sincerely apologize to customers for the experience.” The Guardian. “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.”
A disgruntled passenger took to social media to point out that they had no power to turn off the movie as the screen was locked until staff switched to another movie.
“These poor kids and their parents because you should have heard audible gasps throughout the plane,” wrote another who thought the chosen Johnson film would be Madam WebbAdding: “I really don't know if it could have been worse.”
In fatherJohnson plays a young woman who takes a cab from JFK Airport to her Manhattan home, during which she has unexpectedly deep conversations with her driver (Penn) about life, love, sex, death, power dynamics and vulnerability.
The film debuted at the Telluride Film Festival last September after SAG-AFTRA landed a deal to allow the cast to promote the film amid the Hollywood strike. Premiering in theaters on June 28, father It grossed $1,098,973 million worldwide.