Airlines showing censored versions of Carol with lesbian kissing edited out

Carol

is a film based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel ‘The Price of Salt’. It stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara as two women who develop an intimate relationship.

However the Huffington Post reports that Delta Airlines have been showing an edited version of the film which has the lesbian kissing scenes edited out.

Comedian Cameron Esposito watched the film during a flight and tweeted about the edited version, saying:

“Watched Carol on a plane and they edited it so the man character never even kiss. Booo. Two women kissing is fine for planes.”

Watched CAROL on a plane & they edited it so the main characters never even kiss. Booooooo.

Two women kissing is fine for planes.

— Cameron Esposito (@cameronesposito) August 3, 2016

BTW my seatmate totally watching something where Paul Giamatti was participating in BDSM w/ a lady but CAROL had no kissing!?

VERY MAD.

— Cameron Esposito (@cameronesposito) August 3, 2016

This is not dirty pic.twitter.com/zDOZMDIGXS

— Cameron Esposito (@cameronesposito) August 3, 2016

In a statement to Entertainment Weekly Delta Airlines said that the reason they showed the edited film was because the studio supplied them with two versions. An unedited version that included nudity and the edited one that cut the nudity as well as the kissing. They said:

“If we were worried about kissing we wouldn’t be showing the film in the first place, but because there are scenes with more than a few seconds of nudity, we opted for the edited version instead of the theatrical version.”

Phyllis Nagy, Carol‘s screenwriter, stated that American Airlines and United Airlines show the original, unedited versions of the film.

@trishbendix @Delta domestic airlines that took the theatrical rather than edited version: American and United.

— Phyllis Nagy (@PhyllisNagy) August 4, 2016

Carol

has been voted as the best LGBT film “of all time” by film experts.

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