Olivia Wilde Speaks About Censorship Of Lesbian Sex Scene In ‘Booksmart’
Director of the successful film Booksmart, Olivia Wilde, along with the stars of the film Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein expressed their disappointment over news of edited version of their film shown on an airline where the film’s lesbian sex scene wad cut out, according to ‘NBC News’.
"I don't understand it," Wilde told Variety's Marc Malkin on the red carpet at the Academy's Governors Awards on Sunday night. "There's censorship, airline to airline, of films, which there must be some kind of governing board to determine. We rate it a certain way. If it's not X-rated, surely it's acceptable on an airplane.”
She continued, "There's insane violence of bodies being smashed in half and yet a love scene between two women is censored from the film. It's such an integral part of this character's journey. I don't understand it. My heart just broke. I'm trying to get to the bottom of it; I want people to experience the entire film.”
"We're on the case to get this rectified. Our movie is a beautiful representation of the queer experience as young people," Beanie Feldstein, who first read about the news on Twitter during her car ride to the award show, said. "I'm a queer person. So we're getting to the bottom of it, don't worry. If you can watch me and Skyler [Gisondo] kiss, you can watch Diana [Silvers] and Kaitlyn kiss."
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