Olivia Wilde Details 'Booksmart' Airplane Edits — And They All Have To Do With Female Sexuality

It's been a frustrating week for Olivia Wilde, who learned from a fan by way of the Twitter earlier this week that a queer love scene had been cut from Booksmart on certain airlines. "This is truly a bummer," she responded on Sunday (October 27). "There is no nudity in this scene. What makes it also obscene for airplane viewing? What airline?" Wilde has since made it her priority to discover exactly what these airlines have censored from her directorial debut. And today (October 30), she hit up Twitter with a list.


"I finally had the chance to watch an edited version of Booksmart on a flight to be able to see exactly what has been censored," Wilde tweeted. "Turns out some airlines work with 1/3 party agency that edits the movie based on what they deem suitable. Which, in our case is ... Female sexuality?" From there on, Wilde went on to list all the things that were unfairly removed from the film, which, furthermore to the queer hookup scene, included muting the word "vagina," cutting Molly's masturbation and UTI story, and removing her scissoring sequence, among other things.


After explaining that the airlines also determined to remove frames that included naked doll bodies, which don't feature any distinctive genitalia at all, Wilde went on to mention that the most disappointing edit was, without a doubt, the removal of Amy and Hope's love scene. "Most disappointingly, they cut most of Amy and Hope's love scene in the washroom, which demands zero nudity, however does involve an important plot point for a lead character," she wrote. "Wtfffff."


should these edits weren't concerning enough already, you'd probably be interested to know what these airlines didn't cut from the film. "By the way, they didn’t cut ANY cursing," she added to her already extensive Twitter thread. "Every 'fuck' is heard loud and clear, some days in the same scene where they muted 'vagina.' They showed George (elegantly) deep-throating a microphone yet couldn't belly a consensual love scene between two women."


Ultimately, this thread was way more than Wilde simply airing her frustrations about the airlines' unfair and sexist movie edits. Alternatively, it was about urging them to do better by cutting ties with the third party agency that approved such edits. "I urge every airline, especially those who pride themselves on inclusivity, to stop working with this third party agency, and trust the parental advisory warning to permit viewers to opt out if they pick she wrote.


Wilde closed out the thread with an exceedingly fitting GIF from the film of Beanie Feldstein, who played the role of Molly, shouting "Make it stop!" Your move, airlines.