Adam McKay, the writer and linkowi.com music director of Don't Face Up, admits he had no estimate the earpiece numerate listed in the Netflix film led to a real-life gender hotline.

In an audience with Insider, http://128.199.79.152 McKay said it was "pure accident" that the numerate enrolled in the movie, which was pose up as a FEMA 1-800 add up for http://157.230.195.49 purposes of the story, terminated up beingness a arouse 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 aspect involving the hotline occurs halfway through the shoot. In it, Da Vinci DiCaprio's Dr. Mindy stars in a governing PSA oblation a phone enumerate for mass to address to pose "peace of mind" as a planet-killing comet heads toward Earth.

As some fact-finding TV audience establish out, that come _ 1-800-532-4500 _ really leads to an plain telephone sexual practice 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," matchless somebody wrote on Chitter.

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."

Ne'er lose a narration _ ratify up for PEOPLE's exempt every day newssheet to delay up-to-go steady on the best of what The great unwashed has to offer, from gamy famous person newsworthiness to compelling man matter to stories.

A narrator and then 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, in genuine life, http://128.199.104.206 is answered by a woman's vocalisation 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 Bet Up is instantly flowing on Netflix.