Adam McKay, the writer and conductor of Don't Expect Up, admits he had no approximation the phone numeral enrolled in the Netflix flick light-emitting diode to a real-liveliness sex hotline.

In an question with Insider, McKay aforementioned it was "pure accident" that the add up listed in the movie, which was band up as a FEMA 1-800 turn for purposes of the story, all over up existence a excite hotline.

"We were going to set up a line for that. But we didn't think of doing it until the end and we didn't have enough time to get our own phone number so that's just a random phone number," he aforesaid. "We in no way planned it being a sex hotline. Pure accident."

He continued, "Unless someone at Netflix or our graphics house picked it and I didn't know about it, I have no idea. In fact, no way. They wouldn't have done that on purpose."

The fit involving the hotline occurs center through the photographic film. In it, Leonardo DiCaprio's Dr. Mindy stars in a governance PSA offering a ring amount for populate to squall to arrest "peace of mind" as a planet-sidesplitting comet heads toward Land.

As approximately investigative viewers establish out, www.wabao.com that number _ 1-800-532-4500 _ really leads to an manifest phone gender hotline.

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"Kudos to you Don't Look Up to having the BASH hotline for their asteroid stress prevention hotline being linked to a Hot Singles in Your Area phone number," unity somebody wrote on Chirrup.

Another drug user tweeted, "Why did Don't Look Up put a phone number on their movie only for it to be a sex line?????"

In the scene, DiCaprio's Dr. Mindy says, "Right now, millions of you are having these same doubts and questions about the approaching comet. That is why BASH Cellular, in conjunction with the United States government, is creating a new hotline, free of charge, to answer all of your questions. And who knows: Maybe, just maybe one of our scientists ... can be that friend we all need to lean on during uncertain times."

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A storyteller and so says, "Call 1-800-532-4500 for peace of mind. Offer only available to BASH customers. Details of your call may be shared with other subsidiaries to enhance your future customer experience. Data and roaming charges apply."

The hotline, http://104.248.96.141 in really life, is answered by a woman's interpreter that says, "Welcome to America's hottest hotline. Guys, hot ladies are waiting to talk to you. Press 1 now. Ladies, to talk to interesting and exciting guys free, press 2 to connect free now."

Don't Facial expression Up is immediately cyclosis on Netflix.