Delta Airlines has been offering “Carol” as an on-flight viewing option, but the relationship between Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara is missing some kissing.
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The Oscar-nominated film, which stars Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett as lovers in Manhattan during the 1950s, was stripped of its mild romantic scenes and even kissing on Delta flights, sparking outrage among some passengers.
The tweet garnered tons of attention and anger from the comedian’s followers, and some revealed that after watching the film for the first time on flights, they believed that the two main characters NEVER kissed in the film. “Booooooo. Two women kissing is fine for planes”, she tweeted.
“There were two versions of this film that the studio makes available – one that is edited and one that is not edited”, Savadelis says. The unedited, theatrical version contained nudity, which is not allowed on Delta in-flight entertainment.
“If we were anxious about kissing we wouldn’t be showing the film, but because there are scenes with more than a few seconds of nudity, we opted for the edited version instead of the theatrical version”, Delta spokesperson Liz Savadelis told the Daily News. Yes, there’s a version of Carol that now somewhat curtails a fundamental part of a beautifully straightforward film – that it is a love story, about people who want to, you know, physically kiss each other, and ultimately do physically kiss each other, and dare I also mention, have physical sex with each other.
Delta allegedly sent a statement to an anonymous AfterEllen reader who’d written the airline a complaint a while back.
Phyllis Nagy, the scriptwriter for Carol, said some airlines made a decision to offer the full version while others selected the censored version. “Each airline has its own policy”.
‘Because of the explicit scenes included in the non-edited version, we chose the edited version.
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The Weinstein Company, who Delta claims provided the two versions of the film, did not respond to EW’s request for comments.
