Qantas has promised to investigate how a sexually explicit movie was shown on TV screens during a flight from Sydney to Tokyo.
According to a statement from the national carrier, passengers were unable to select movies individually due to a technical issue with the inflight entertainment system on flight QF59.
Somehow the 2023 movie Daddio starring Sean Penn and Dakota Johnson was screened for more than an hour before being turned off in favour of a kid-friendly movie.
The film features Johnson as a woman returning home after a trip who gets into a taxi driven by Penn. They strike up a conversation which becomes more and more sexually explicit and graphic as their journey continues.
According to publicity blurb, the X-rated movie features “mature language, explicit sexual material and graphic nudity.”
“Qantas played an inappropriate movie to the whole plane, there was no way to turn it off,” one passenger shared on Reddit.
“The movie was clearly not suitable to play for the whole flight and we sincerely apologise to customers for this experience,” a Qantas spokesperson told news.com.au.
“All screens were changed to a family friendly movie for the rest of the flight, which is our standard practice for the rare cases where individual movie selection isn’t possible.
“We are reviewing how the movie was selected.”
